Facebook is Your Friend

Post #9 - Annotated Bibliography Two



Quinones, Elise. "TheDartmouth.com: Panelists discuss impact of Facebook."TheDartmouth.com: America’s Oldest College Newspaper. Founded 1799.. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2011. 

Panelists discuss the impact of Facebook <Link to the article.

The topic of the essay is why people use Facebook and how it impacts people's social lives. Elise Quinones wrote this as a summary of a panel discussion on Facebook at the Rockerfeller Center back in 2009. She summarized the discussion and took quotes from what some of the panelists had mentioned at the event. They claim that Facebook has become a huge phenomena and is now the "connection place that has surpassed all others." Facebook also has some privacy issues. One of the panelists had mentioned that "Facebook is about as private as shouting in a public square." Its usefulness to the assignment isn't much, but it does give some insight as to how the Internet is forcing us to evolve and adapt to it, rather than us evolving the Internet and having it adapt to us.