On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and his friends launched a social networking site called Facebook. It was created for students, specifically "only available to people at Harvard where I went to college," Zuckerberg explains in the TIME magazine article "The Future of Facebook." “We rolled it out to all the middle schools, all the high schools, and then a certain number of businesses were able to sign up, now everyone can sign up.” In just ten months since its launch, Facebook has reached 1 million users. After ten years, Facebook now averages more than 757 million daily users, according to statistics published on newsroom.fb.com. With its growing number of users over the past ten years since its launch, Facebook has become a growing international trend. Facebook is an online social networking site that allows each person to upload their profile and images for others to search and view. However, some information you post may only be seen by those who have mutually agreed to become your “friends” through the process of sending and accepting friend requests. Facebook allows your friends to see who you are “friends” with and vice versa, creating a vast network of interconnected networks. Additionally, in a world where speed and efficiency are becoming a necessity, Facebook is the number one source for fast and effective communication, surpassing the efficiency and convenience of email, cell phones and even face-to-face communications. to face. Facebook has become a platform for users to stay in touch with friends, family as well as peers at all times. Those in the same “group” (members of school clubs, high school classmates, leaders of organizations) can easily communicate and exchange information to keep their members informed of announcements and the future itself...... middle of paper ......with each other? Our fear of loneliness or our fear of rejection may be temporarily forgotten by Facebook, but can Facebook or other social media tools create a culture that can create a permanent cure for these causes? Works Cited Bea, Francis. "This week on Facebook: how to 'kill' your friends' profiles, earn $10 and cure your loneliness." Digital trends. Np, January 16, 2013. Web. February 20, 2014. .Konnikova, Maria. “How Facebook makes us unhappy.” Editorial. New Yorker September 10, 2013: n. page. The New Yorker. The New Yorker, September 10, 2013. Web. February 19, 2014. Locke, Laura. “The future of Facebook.” Editorial. TIME Magazine June 17, 2007: n. page. Time. Time Inc., July 17, 2007. Web. February 18, 2014. “Press room.” Facebook timeline. Np, and Web. February 18. 2014. .