Journal 7

In Your Face: How Facebook Could Crush Myspace, By Christopher Beam

This was a very interesting article that depicts the portal of Facebook over taking the internet from the current giants: Google, Yahoo! and Myspace. Evidently, Facebook has opened its borders to become more competitive and innovative as well. Facebook initiated a new tool kit called Facebook Platform which allows programmers, such as a bored students or multimillion-dollar corporations to peel back the sites cover and poke around and rearrange its contents. Apparently, Facebook is trying to be more competitive and gain a greater part of the market owned by the other internet giants. In the competitive technological market companies have to reinvent themselves in order to survive, seemingly this is what Facebook is attempting to do.

1. My first question is, will Facebook be a good educational tool for my students to learn with? At this point, I don’t know enough about it. I will have to confer with other teachers to find out about the benefits and usefulness of using it in the classroom.

2. My second question is, I wonder how many teachers and administrators know about Facebook or have actually used it before? This is an interesting question, based upon my experience, not too many are familiar with it. We will see, if the changes they are making will make them more competitive.