Facebook In American Culture

According to the pew research institute ninety five percent of young teens in America are online and seventy seven present of those teens online has a Facebook profile. Mark Zuckerberg created the social network icon of Facebook in 2004. Soon after Zuckerberg created Facebook he became the world’s youngest billionaire all because of the enormous popularity of his website and eventually app Facebook. When it launched Facebook quickly beat out its competitor, Myspace. Within 10 years the amount of Facebook users went from one million in 2004 to over 1,230 million people in 2013. When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004 he unknowingly created a new sector in American culture. Because Facebook was only created 11 years ago the majority of the users are teens. Facebook appeals to the teenage generation because it is a convenient way …show more content…
Smart phones, tablets and computers are the main tangible artifacts of Facebook; however teens are known to use a multitude of online artifacts or intangible artifacts on Facebook. Emoji’s is one example of such artifacts although they are just faces teens use these artifacts to express their emotional state, emphasize certain things or even imply things. Users on Facebook can also send emoji like items called stickers. These stickers include cartoon animals, people symbols, and even current popular animation figures. Other artifacts of Facebook include giving gifts to friends through games. These gifts can be used to advance the person to the next level or stage of the game, or just be used as a decoration. Although these intangible artifacts have no monetary value in the real word they are still very sought after by users of Facebook. Teens also often post photos of themselves, family, events, and anything else they decided to post to Facebook, creating online photo albums. Teens unknowingly create themselves an online journal, through updating their