FaceBook Makes the Cover of Time

When is a website a socially defining cultural phenomenon? When it begins to define the way we live. The cover of Time magazine and the interior article by Dan Fletcher explores not only the popularity of this website that started as a domain name, and encompasses the vast scope of social interaction as the Internet has changed it forever.

FaceBook has 500 million users. There are entire countries whose hosting capability doesn’t have the capacity to host that kind of traffic. On page 37 of the current edition of TIME there is a global penetration diagram showing how Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook share world domination. But the real news is how the evolving practices of online sharing and information architecture delimit security and privacy in an increasingly transparent internet social living space.

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Michael Jackson Death nearly crashes Web

A major force in popular culture, contemporary music, visual media, and modern dance has died and the world is the poorer for it. Michael Jackson at 50 has died entirely too soon to suit hundreds of millions of people on earth. But they all rushed to the internet to talk about it, proving once again that social networking operates as a universal benchmark of what people are cocnerned about.

Michael Jackson’s death Thursday afternoon has brought enough world emotional impact that individuals across the planet looking for more information and consolation crashed Twitter and the Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia entry. Emotion ran high and fans erected memorial sites. Facebook and Youtube participated in each other’s bandwidth helix of shutdown pain.