Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks for college students since it's inception in 2004. To this day it a useful tool for students to get connected to friends and other like-minded individuals who have a desire to become socially interactive on the go or while at home.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and a couple roommates of his while he was attending Harvard University. It eventually branched out into Boston Mass., and spread outwards until its membership has now reached outwards of 200 million world-wide. Originally intended for college students, with over 30,000 recognized colleges, universities, organizations it's growth has spawned to make it comparable to MySpace now, which in large part has been the social networks world leader.

One of the many great things for college students that make Facebook appealing is that weeds out a lot of the teens and stalkers that you may have heard about on MySpace. They are more rigourous in their approving an account, in many places they ask that you have an college email address or ask you what college, or university that you have attended and assert you in that group of people.

Another thing that makes Facebook appealing to a larger audience is that it is more adult orientated in its eye-appeal, it's not teeny bopperish, or flirty, it seems in its own way more adult-like. A lot of business professionals are using Facebook and are connecting to more people through Facebook than MySpace because of the professional-like shell.

Overall in this day and age of new gadgets and saviness in this author's opinion, I think it is a necessary tool in networking and moving on in this great world wide web.