Facebook is a social networking that was originally designed for college students, but is now open to anyone 13 years of age or older. Facebook users can create and customize their own profiles with photos, videos, and information about themselves. Friends can browse the profiles of other friends and write messages on their pages....

Status of Micro-Blogging in the Blogosphere, alternate geeky universe
March 1 2006 Facebook launces status update July 10 Jaiku micro-blogging July 13 2006 Twitter The first major micro-blogging service launches Twitterers use mobile phones, instant-messaging software, or Twitter’s own website to send and receive 140-character messages, called twitters or tweets. Tweets–which mostly answer Twitter’s prompt “What are you doing?”–are routed to individual friends,...
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