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脸书——21世纪大变革

简介
自2004年创立以来，脸书的普及率就越来越高。值得骄傲的是，脸书拥有超过3千万的活跃用户（指一个月内至少登录两次的用户），而这个数据还在不断增长。2009年1月，Compete.com网站将它列为
全球月活跃用户使用量最高的网站。在一般群众中脸书超受欢迎，但主要的用户群还是从高中生到研究生的学生群体。也许人们会认为脸书的用户分散在随机群体中，但是豪尔吉陶伊（2007年，第276页）提出“脸书用户的性别、种族、民族，以及父母教育背景都和他们的使用相关”。豪尔吉陶伊（2007年，第276页）又指出，“除此之外，生活经验丰富，并有自主权的用户更倾向于使用这类网站”。这就验证了一个论断，当你在上网的时候，你不仅是统计数据的一部分，因为豪尔吉陶伊（2007年，第277页）写到“线下身份也会在线上行为中延续下去。”

本文将讨论在21世纪脸书的影响到底有多大，更有趣的是，它如何改变和颠覆人们日常生活中的人际交往。

Facebook: A twenty-first century revolution
Published: 23, March 2015

简介——Introduction

Since being founded in 2004 the popularity of Facebook has continued to grow. Facebook can boast to have a massive 300 million active users (Representing people who have returned to the site within 30 days) and this figure is still growing to date. In January 2009, Compete.com ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users. It has become extremely popular within the general public, but the main demographic of users are students; from high school up to post graduation level. People may think that users of Facebook are scattered across a group of random individuals, but Hargittai (2007 p.276) states that 'a person's gender, race and ethnicity, and parental education background are all associated with use'. Hargittai (2007 p.276) also points out that 'additionally, people with more experience and autonomy of use are more likely to be users of such sites'. This adds to the argument that when you are surfing the internet, you are not just another statistic, as Hargittai (2007 p.277) also writes 'offline identities very much carry over to online behaviour'.

This essay will be discussing how much of an impact Facebook has had on the 21st Century, more interestingly, how it's changed and revolutionised people's interactions with each other on a daily basis.

I have had a Facebook account since early 2008, which was mainly set up due to peer pressure. This is because between the start of 2007 and early 2008, the majority of people I knew were using MySpace as their primary social networking site. A social trend had begun where many of my friends were deleting their MySpace profiles and creating profiles on Facebook. This created a domino effect, that because friends were moving to a new social networking website, I felt I had to do the same. The Collins English Dictionary defines 'Domino Effect' as; 'If one event causes another similar event, which in turn causes another event, and so on, you can refer to this as a domino effect'. A real world example of the domino effect in action is referenced in Freund (2007 p. xvi) by which she is talking about countries joining trade unions; 'there is a domino effect and as more countries join a union non members face increasing incentive to join'. This can be related back to my experience of moving from a MySpace account to a Facebook account.

Facebook is a product of the post-modern society that we live in today. We utilise the internet for many resources; up to date news, shopping, business and entertainment, the list goes on. This way of life that the internet has given us is now prompting us to socialise online too.

社会影响——The Impact on Society

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