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Understanding Facebook's Growth

1. The document presents information about Facebook in four paragraphs, with each paragraph discussing a different aspect of Facebook: its origins and growth, differences from Twitter, causes of addiction, and addressing addiction. 2. Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and has grown to over 1.35 billion active users. It focuses more on connections between friends while Twitter emphasizes sharing ideas. 3. Facebook can be addictive by making users want more friends and providing a way to fill time, but setting limits on use can help address addiction issues.

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Understanding Facebook's Growth

1. The document presents information about Facebook in four paragraphs, with each paragraph discussing a different aspect of Facebook: its origins and growth, differences from Twitter, causes of addiction, and addressing addiction. 2. Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and has grown to over 1.35 billion active users. It focuses more on connections between friends while Twitter emphasizes sharing ideas. 3. Facebook can be addictive by making users want more friends and providing a way to fill time, but setting limits on use can help address addiction issues.

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I. Read each paragraph and present the ideas using a graphic organizer.

Each paragraph should have


its own graphic organizer.

Facebook And now, it has


Graphic organizer:
started when a
On February 4, In summer of 1.35 billion
Harvard
University 2004, 2004, Facebook active users.
student name Zuckerberg was incorporated.
Mark Zuckerberg launched The
opened
Facebook.com
facemash on
October 28,
2003.

In January Expanded to By the end of


2004, other 2005, Facebook
Zuckerberg universities by expanded to
began to March 2004. universities in the
write codes UK, Australia, and
for a new New Zealand.
website
known as
"Facebook”.
Graphic organizer:

Facebook requires you Twitter is built


to be a friend of Twitter and around the posting
another user before Facebook of short 140-
you can follow him/her. allow real- character messages,
Facebook also has fan time or “tweets.”  Twitter
pages for celebrities - a interactions mainly focuses on
feature which Twitter and networks ideas and
does not have. Finally, reconnection topics.
Facebook has filters. with friends.
Graphic organizer:
Facebook that induces addiction is that it
Facebook fulfills quantifies friends. Facebook will tell you
our social needs in how many "friends” you already have in a
the digital world. specific period. One may think that the more
friends you have, the more popular you are. Causes of
Facebook
These games addiction
tend to focus Facebook is a boredom buster. If you
on online have nothing to do, Facebook allows
you to check other people's status, to
social
chat with friends, to post your favorite
interactions. quotes and lines.
Graphic organizer:

Problem solution map

the fact or condition of


being addicted to a
particular substance,
thing, or activity.

Have a self-
Facebook fulfills our control keep
Facebook social needs in the track how much
addiction digital world. time you spent
on Facebook

The Facebook
causes so much
stress and anxiety

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