FACEBOOK & TWITTER NATION

Started in 2004 by 3 college students to allow fellow college students to connect as well as a means for its social shy creators to meet girls, Facebook caught on like a California wildfire and has grown to such numbers if Facebook were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world. It has become the chic portal for millions to find old friends, meet new friends, spawn business opportunities and track the activities of each effortlessly. There are games and applications that make interactivity with fellow Facebookers inevitable It's the digital standard all social sites are held to. Its micro blogging partner in in digital socialization, Twitter, is as equally entrenched in today's online meet and follow environment. Twitter gives today's users the ability to share snippets of their location, thoughts, actions, what they are wearing who they are with, just about anything they want to "Tweet" as the 140 character or less messages are intimately called. Twitter can even be linked with Facebook so your tweets are posted to your Facebook page for all your friends to see. Twitter is the brainchild of Jack Dorsey, and the SMS characteristic site is said to be the 3rd most used online social vehicle. Then there is MySpace that actually held the title as most popular before being surpassed by Facebook in 2006. This show takes a look at the mega social sites, their impact on society, the way they've changed our communication behaviors, and lives as a whole. Are we on the way to becoming a FACEBOOK & TWITTER NATION