Have a Facebook profile is no longer a "game" to be a necessity. The world of social networking sites has evolved to the point where we can say that if you're not in them do not exist on the network. No exaggeration, especially when it comes to Facebook, but not the only one. In 2008 Twitter, the banner of the phenomenon known as "microblogging," went from being a tool of questionable utility to find their place in the world of instant communication channel with content that goes beyond the anecdote.
Today (03/02/09) The Los Angeles Times echoed a new trend in Hollywood , the use of Twitter among the stars of film and television to communicate with their fans. Specifically, the largest newspaper explained the Mecca of film as one of the protagonists of the series "Heroes" communicated with over 20,000 followers in this short message service of the Internet to instantly know what opiniban last episode aired on on television just after to conclude. Among the players hooked to Twitter was cited, for example, to Demi Moore.
The mass media began in 2006 and spread rapidly especially in the U.S. thanks to the popularization of the so-called smart phone (iPhone, Blackberry ...) and where it already has over 2.6 million users.
What at first appeared to be of questionable utility - what interest is to know what another person is doing the time? buy bread, go to work, breakfast ... - was taking its place in the web world and became a great forum full of small forums that could disclose information that otherwise would transcend not as fast, as layoffs in different companies in crisis. Another community of Twitter, Jobangels , now serves to help find employment. All this, of course, in the United States.
While microblogging is taking its place in the routine of the most likely to connectivity, Facebook savor the sweetness of success without knowing what their limit and without any sign of a replacement on the horizon to stop this social network obsolete.
Almost everyone is on Facebook, a simple exercise is to see how far he has come this tool was created to keep students connected to Harvard in 2004. Hence, the service was expanded to other universities, until finally the creators of this website decided to open up access to everyone. So much so that nearly 200 million people have created a Facebook identity. Just think of a name and look at this network, is likely to appear: Obama, Zapatero, King of Spain, Putin, Sarkozy, Barbie, Maradona Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brad Pitt, Pinocchio, the Little Mermaid ...
The thing has gone so far as the press begins to use as a benchmark of popularity the number of "friends" you have in Facebook, which has made the social network as a political weapon in election campaigns.
But not only politicians have to deal with, and some worry, this networking tool. The introduction of personal information on this and other platforms is a tempting database for advertising companies, scammers and low ilk characters that move free in the virtual stratosphere. Among adverse events associated with Facebook in any way will outline the case of the murder of a woman by her husband to change his status from married to single portal in your profile, or a person who learned that his company will was fired through a message on Facebook, unbelievable and despicable.
The success of both companies have taken to Facebook to make an offer to buy Twitter, it refused. It seems that leaders have high microblogging its sights.
