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Facing Facebook: Worldview Considerations of Social Networking

Byron Barlowe

It seems like everybody is on Facebook! At 350 million members worldwide and growing exponentially, this social networking community would be the third largest country in the world! One hundred million Americans, including 86 percent of American women, now have a profile on at least one social networking site, nearly double from a year earlier.

"...Twitter has radically changed the face of online communication. This year alone [2009], usage has grown by 900 percent….” But kids prefer the ever-popular YouTube video-sharing site. Two-thirds of Internet users around the world visit blogs and social networks, making it more popular than email. And older users are flocking to social sites. So this is about you and your friends, too, mom and dad!