Chapter 13. Social Websites
It would be an understatement to say that social, or “Web 2.0,” websites are an increasing part of our lives. We use sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter everyday. These sites have changed so much about how we interact culturally that entire books are devoted to the topic. We can’t cover the cultural issues here, but it’s important to understand how much content we create on social websites and exactly how important they are in our lives.
As today’s most popular social website, let’s use Facebook as an example. With over 500 million users, Facebook has more users than the entire population of the United States. In fact, if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. Some fancy math using ...
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