Life Without Facebook?

Written by Christian on June 1, 2010 in Facebook - No comments

Security ( or the lack there of ) is becoming more and more an issue with people who are a part of online social networks. And of course the powerhouse of them all is Facebook. But with all of the malware being hosted on Facebook ,Myspace or Twitter getting hacked into ( on numerous occasions) , people really don't seem to mind. 

When Myspace came along back in 2003 , everyone that it was the best thing next to sliced bread and warm butter. You could customize your pages , leave glitter graphics and all kinds of spam on your buddies page , and later on play Mafia Wars ( I am uber guilty of the last on thanks to my sister La Barbilona , lol) . However as time progressed , it started becoming monotonous , and then 2004 hits and along Facebook. 

No bells and whistles. No customized profiles , none of the hoopla that you had to run through , just a simple user interface ( well back then it was simple , now with all of modifications that have occured since then , you almost need a Phd, to navigate through it) . 

6 years later  Facebook boasts ( these stats are straight from Facebook)

More than 400 million active users

50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

Average user has 130 friends

People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

Everyone and there mother has a Facebook page ( my father included , lol) . Facebook has become what myspace was at one point – The Alpha and The Omega of the Social Networks. Everyone from Absolut Vodka  to The White House has a Facebook page ( I wouldn't post anything on the White House page though becasue they have a nice little clause on there page that says 

This is the White House page on Facebook. Comments posted on and messages received through White House pages are subject to the Presidential Records Act and may be archived. Learn more at WhiteHouse.gov/privacy

Anyways, so I guess this whole rant was to hear from you the people .. Life After facebook . If Facebook where to come crashing down tommorow , what would you do ? It sounds like a joke , but some people really love them some Facebook, so I would love to hear some more on this .