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" I remember when I created my Facebook account when I was a freshman in college (when Facebook was still thefacebook.com). It was all the rage. I started selecting friends by browsing the existing categories\u2013i.e. high school, college\u2013and was associated into the social networking platform by my college/university, a requirement then. It was fun for a while, but not nearly as fun as it is now, since there weren&amp;#039;t many people using it (just thousands opposed to the now billions).  I dabbled in it throughout college as it started its ascent towards universal recognition; but, in 2006, I eventually grew tired of it and switched to MySpace\u2013as did everyone else, it seemed, since MySpace wasn&amp;#039;t discriminatory towards those that weren&amp;#039;t in college, attracting more a diverse network than did Facebook at the time; because they were very music/band-friendly, serving as more of a career platform than a social network; and because they allowed more creative freedom when it came to creating your representative page, especially for those who had HTML skills.  But Facebook was quick to catch on\u2013somehow ridding itself of its college-based reputation\u2013and around 2008 it seemed everyone had made the switch back to Facebook, despite MySpace&amp;#039;s attempt to win people back with a really cool (and easy-to-use) page and user interface redesign (which may have been its setback). But they had already lost too many users\u2013and what&amp;#039;s a social networking tool without the social aspect? Facebook won. And the platform is still expanding. It launched two redesigns in the past year\u2013one specifically to compete with Twitter&amp;#039;s winning &amp;quot;update&amp;quot; idea\u2013which have kept it on top, expanding to yet reached generations. A year ago, that the 55 and up box was winning the user percentage race was all the news; now, the latest reports, published today on the SanFran Chronicle website, show that the 35 to 54 box have stolen the Facebook spotlight\u2013accounting for near 30 percent of all US users. Some point to a gloomy economy as the cause, and some point to big events, such as the election, that have used it as a platform\u2013attracting a different type of interest. Whatever it is, Facebook is really good at what they&amp;#039;re doing. And it&amp;#039;s interesting to watch them succeed, proving themself ageless and timeless\u2013again and again. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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