Monkey Business

For my last subject matter blog post, I wanted to analyze the evolution of Facebook, the site I spend the most time on as we approach finals week. Facebook started out as something that only college students could use. You had to have a valid college email address otherwise you were denied access. Then, it branched out. You still had to be a student, but it was open to all students. At this point in time, most people still though it was weird (well at least I did, I think I was in the ninth grade). My sister, three years my senior, made me create an account that I did not access until many years later. She said that she liked it, but she didn’t have a lot of friends on it as everyone was still crazed with Myspace.

Facebook quickly became the coolest thing since designer jeans on most college campuses and anyone who was anyone was on Facebook. Once this started happening, those students still in high school that wanted to keep in touch with upperclassmen had to make Facebooks, which lead to the trickle down effect and then everyone was crazed about Facebook. I know that once I got to college I deleted my Myspace.

Now, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, younger siblings, your T.A’s, your professors and all of your peers have a Facebook page. It has become a necessity, this we know. But what I recently found out is that Facebook has become so common, it’s monkey business.  There is a monkey who now has a Facebook Fan page because it knows how to take pictures and uploads them onto Facebook.

There you have it, the evolution of Facebook. From untouchable college campus emails right down to animals.

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