Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Where Facebook Began Its Journey

Facebook began as a small social network that was meant purely for college students, not so long ago. Some say this was just an experiment; but even if it was one, it has emerged as a major success story. Surely, no college student would have ever imagined that this network could become a generator of millions of dollars.

Indeed, just a few years on, Facebook has emerged as a successful social media network that has brought people from far and wide much closer together than email and instant messengers could have. Previously, it was thought that globalization had perhaps reached its highest point in close coordination, when instant messengers and email became widely used, and even online conferencing with visuals had people further believe that this was truly the case. Facebook, however, has taken all this a leap further, as it has enabled people to develop entire neighborhoods, cities, countries, ideologies, movements, etc. online.

The online groups formed through social media such as Facebook are not just virtual groups; they are now known to be motivated and active campaigns too. An example of this is the establishment of social movements through Facebook that result in action on the streets, such as drives to help the poor and downtrodden. Apart from this, many other activities have been organized and have resulted in thousands and millions of people getting together for a given cause.

While Facebook has served as a platform on which many have begun to organize themselves, a lot of work has been put in by designers and programmers to make it all possible. If they had not been part of the overall operation, hardly any of the things that you see on Facebook would actually materialize. These individuals have made a massive contribution to the various kinds of pages and groups that have emerged.

In fact, the landscape of Facebook applications has been purely produced by these individuals. They are in fact the people that organizations, brands, etc. turn to when they need to develop an application for themselves.

Facebook application developers are available as individuals who can get the job done for you, and they are also available through organizations that have entire teams of them working together on very large projects. The latter is thought to be a viable scenario, as a great deal can be managed when many developers work together to produce large and complex applications. Indeed, there seems to be no shortage of talented individuals who are capable of managing their tasks, and it also seems quite apparent that more and more people are becoming aware that these individuals and organizations are the ones to turn to when they need to project their causes, organizations, brands, etc.

Roses Mark is a successful internet marketing professional, Facebook application developer and freelance writer. Until now she has written numerous articles on the internet.


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