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Facebook is a commodity for a large number of people. It is the most trafficked social media site on the web, and is used by more than 100 million active users. It originated for college students but they now only make up half of its current users. It comes in more than 15 languages and allows the entire world to communicate. I love Facebook. I rely on it to keep me updated with the lives of my friends, to entertain myself, and to invite people to functions. It is a simple and easy way to contact people. Over the summer Facebook released an updated version. It was strange, everything was moved around and I didn’t like it, so I stuck with the older version. A few weeks ago I saw a memo that said that soon the new version was going to be the only version. I switched over then to try to get used to it. At first it was confusing and I didn’t know where anything was located. Now I am pleased with the new version. I no longer have to scroll all over a person’s profile page to be able to find their wall. The tabs are so convenient for finding what I need I just didn’t know how to utilize them before. Since the transition from the old version I have received a lot of invitations to join groups like, “1,000,000 Against the New Facebook” or “I HATE the New Facebook.” There are so many people who are unhappy with Facebook’s change. If you were to search groups for the updated version there are over 500 and they are all negative like the ones I mentioned before. I think everyone is just disoriented by the newer version, like I was, but if they really give it a try they would see that it was made with good intentions and that it really is handy. Just like the Zack Coleman says in the article, “The new Facebook may upset a lot of people at first, but eventually we will get used to it and probably enjoy it more than we used to. I’m sure that in a few weeks everything will die down and in a few months everyone will have forgotten completely about the old Facebook.”

Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/09/22/facebook.facelift/index.html
External sources:
http://www.new.facebook.com/s.php?n=-1&k=200000010&init=s%3Agroup&q=new+facebook&sid=aefdc7bdd37d8110d3e565c7c6b98820
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics