The topic I’d like to focus on is the “fad” of social networks. Just like that cool pair of the bell-bottom jeans and those nifty sneakers that have wheels attached to them, the Internet goes through phases. First lets go back in time and think back to the popular social media tools that took over our society roughly ten years ago.

-Xanga

– Friendster

– MySpace

 I always wondered why websites just seem to fall off that face of the earth. Well not literally fall of the face of the Earth, but the public just seems to stop caring. Chat rooms filled with hundreds of people have suddenly become a ghost town. Why is that? It also seems as if social media websites lose their popularity AFTER drastic improvements are made to the site. Does the world hate the idea of change?I always see people complaining about new modifications to their favorite social network. Or does the website become redundant and is change exactly what we long for?