The idea that Facebook will need 50,000 servers is really interesting to me. They have to pay a lot of money to set up servers so I can do the mindless clicking that was discussed in the Huffington Post article.
I would like to delete my Facebook to give me back all the time I've wasted on it during college, but Facebook also does so much for it. It keeps me in touch with my friends from back home in a way that never would have been possible before Fbook came along. I also talk to friends across the country and the world that I made during my experiences studying abroad. I network with other journalists such as Hannah Allam, the youngest Baghdad bureau chief ever at 25, who I interviewed at the SPJ Conference in August, and Saeed Ahmed, a CNN journalist who comments on my Facebook status when he's working at 3 a.m.
Right now I'm meeting the people I will work with in Teach for America in New Orleans. After I graduate, Facebook will be essential for keeping in touch with my "college" friends.
I was a little confused by the abstractness of the Charlene Li article, social networks are like air. We interact with people in a social context everyday. I do not want my digital social network to become like air. I like to control my digital social network because unlike in public, where I know who's watching me because I can see them and I know who will be where, everyone is everywhere on the Internet. I keep my Facebook very tame. No profanity, no alcohol, no cleavage, etc. You can't really get a sense of who I am through my Facebook page because I do not want people to get to know me through the Internet.
Over the past few weeks, reports have abounded on the Internet about the purchase of Facebook by an outside company such as Yahoo, which will force users to pay for the service. I absolutely love that Facebook users response to the suggestion that they pay for Facebook is the group "We won't pay for Facebook. We are gone if this happens."
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