Me Media, the New Yorker

Me Media; how hanging out on the Internet became big business.
by John Cassidy May 15, 2006
The New Yorker

Who doesn’t have a profile on a social networking site? Sites like facebook and myspace have become a part of our daily activities. The article Me Media introduces the topic of social networking and earning big bucks with it through the site facebook.com. Facebook started as a college networking site for Harvard, but as more people got interested it expanded to other colleges and eventually even high schools. The article also talks about how social networking sites have problems with privacy issues, sex predators for example are said to have used myspace to find victims. There is also a great deal of sponsorship behind sites like facebook and these sites are great place for online advertising. As social networking sites are growing, they are coming up with new sorts of applications, trying to compete with the others, but is this expansion necessarily good? Sites like facebook have become such a big part of our lives that it is becoming a necessity and a million dollar business. Some love it and some hate it, but no one can escape it.