Is Facebook taking over the world?

4 million people. What is this number? This is how many people visit Facebook every day. Isn't it crazy? Facebook has grown out to be a part of the every day life of millions of people. It feels like we have been using this website for many many years. Can you believe that before September 2006 Facebook did not even exist. Since then, this website has become a networking center for people who are trying to find jobs, also you can just look for you old classmate in high school and get in touch with anyone you want to. Not to mention that companies use it for advertising to reach a wider audience. So basically on Facebook you can start any kind of relationship; official and unofficial as well. Well you have probably known these, but I wonder if you know what I am going to tell you next.
FACEBOOK spread itself throughout the web. It extends social networking. How is it going to work? I read about this on cnn.com. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO announced the changes on April 21, 2010. It is all about the "Like" button, that we already know and use it pretty well on Facebook. However from now on you can meet this button all around the web, on sites such as Pandora or Yelp. What is going to happen, is that when you go on for example Pandora, a little pop up Facebook related thing will show up on the top of your screen. When you like a song on Pandora and click on the "like" button, it will automatically show up on your Facebook homepage. The purpose of this "like" buttons is that when you find something interesting and important on a website you can recommend it to a friend through Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg calls this new invention the "Open Graph", that connects not only people but their interests too towards different fields, such as music, news, food, etc. On his Facebook blog page he said: "we are making it so all websites can work together to build a more comprehensive map of connections and create better, more social experiences for everyone. We have redesigned Facebook Platform to offer a simple set of tools that sites around the web can use to personalize experiences and build out the graph of connections people are making."



Facebook reaches far with this new Open Graph idea, trying to get as many websites as they can to co-operate with them. They are launching with more than 30 content partners, including The New York Times, Yelp, the music site Pandora, ESPN and the Internet Movie Database. CNN.com also is a partner. However what do you think, how far Facebook can go? Is it going to be the biggest and most collaborated website among all? Would you take advantage of this application and let people know what music you listen to or what news you are interested in?

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