With the unbelievable boom over the past year, online social networking has received a lot of doubtful criticisms among the media. Yes, some social networks may be just a fad and yes, there will be a fair amount that will fail. But let me make one statement clear: Online social networking is here to stay. In fact, I will go as far to say that I believe at one point in the future, a person’s entire internet experience will have some underlying social network influencing it. My belief can be explained in two reasons: Everything (and I mean everything) on the internet is...

Looks like founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has another hater to add to the list, and this time it is more then one of his million members complaining about the new changes to the site. Aaron Greenspan, an ex Harvard classmate of Zuckerberg’s has written an open letter mocking Zuckerberg and calling him out for stealing features from a site Greenspan had made pre-facebook. In addition, Greenspan has decided to relaunch his project from 3 years ago in the form of CommonRoom.com not only as a Facebook killer, but a be all end all to the regular internet. I think Pete Cashmore...

According to the Wall Street Journal and “people close to the matter,” Facebook is in in serious talks with Yahoo to sell itself for an amount around $1 Billion. $1 Billion sounds ridiculous, but it is much more sane then the previously reported $2 Billion dollar amount floating around a few months ago. In my opinion it is a good time for Facebook to sell (best time would have been 1 or 2 months ago). They have tapped the college market to its fullest extent and is now trying to sustain their growth by opening up the site to anyone. This move could dilute the...