Blog 7: Outline and Annotated Bibliography

Facebook


Thesis: Facebook managed to take social experience of college and lifestyle and put it online, improving mass media and communication for the world.

Topic sentences:

1. Creation of Facebook and why Mark Zucherberg (creator) thought it was such a brilliant idea and how it would help people share information.

• Kaplan, Katharine. "Facemash Creator Survives Ad Board." Harvard Crimson (2003): n. pag. Web. 17 Oct 2010

• Mark, Zucherberg, Perf. The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher." Perf. Jesse, Eisenberg. Columbia Pictures: 2010, Film.

2. Different functionality and user base (helping people share personal information more safely between family and friends just like you would in real life). It is not viewed by the public unless they have a Facebook account or a person alters their settings; making it so people are comfortable having a page on the internet at all.

• O'Hear, Steve. "Research: Myspace and Facebook are different class." Social Web n. pag. Web. 17 Oct 2010.

• Mark, Zucherberg, Perf. The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher." Perf. Jesse, Eisenberg. Columbia Pictures: 2010, Film.

3. Creation of the news feed, allowing people to live amongst each other and talk even though they are far apart.

• "Press Open Door 2009." Mark Zucherberg Facebook. Web. 17 Oct 2010.

• Mark, Zucherberg, Perf. The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher." Perf. Jesse, Eisenberg. Columbia Pictures: 2010, Film.

4. Facebook is made for different mediums. You can communicate with friends or a large audience. (ex. Obama or the New York Times wanting to give a message out to the people, or someone who is using facebook to talk to close knit friends and family)

•  "Press Open Door 2009." Mark Zucherberg Facebook. Web. 17 Oct 2010.

5. Site is able to be translated into different languages, so that it is not restricted to anyone with differing background.

• "Press Open Door 2009." Mark Zucherberg Facebook. Web. 17 Oct 2010.

6. Makes things simple and flexible so that it doesnt discriminate anyone. Easy to use!

• "Press Open Door 2009." Mark Zucherberg Facebook. Web. 17 Oct 2010.

7. Has helped keep in touch with their communities and has brought them back together.

• Zuckerberg, Mark. "500 Million Stories." The Facebook Blog. Facebook, 6/21/2010. Web. 18 Oct 2010.

8. Not just Mark Zucherberg, but great people in time also feel that the best way to get a message across is through media and technology.

• Marshall McLuhan- http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/mcluhan.html

These are the topic sentences I've been working on so far.