Monday, March 12, 2018

Write on Facebook’s timeline for its birthday – you’re still friends

5:53 AM    
When we think of tenth birthdays, we

associate them with youth and the cusp of tweenhood, a life only just begun and about to get more exciting. But it’s different in the technology industry and, as it approaches the end of its first decade, Facebook is seen by many as more like an octogenarian. Social media technologies like the ephemeral Snapchat are being lauded as nubile and exciting, while Facebook is part of the old guard.
Whether you love or hate Facebook, it has become part of everyday life. It has developed a gargantuan user base of 1.23 billion and now counts as a source of news for one third of US adults. To say you are Facebook friends with someone is an understood relationship and concepts such as a “like” and writing on someone’s “wall” or “timeline” are part of daily parlance for many.