Why Such The Facebook Hype?

Facebook.
All of us students know what it is and yet little of us know just how often it is used. The site, www.thefacebook.com, gets on an average of 4 million hits per day on their website! Studies done at one university show that when the site debuted at Pitt only last month, a remarkable 6,410 accounts have been opened, said Hughes, a total equal to more than a third of the Oakland campus's undergraduate population. The average friend list there is 31, compared with 57 and Carnegie Mellon and 29 at Penn State University.
Ninety percent of users at new campuses log on daily. But even among the earliest campuses, the rate remains above 50 percent.
So why such the hype? Makers of thefacebook.com say it allows students to keep in touch with their friends from other schools while keeping up with the Internet boom. To open an account, which requires only a school email address, a person receives a page for them to post a picture, as well as a profile for themself. After this, they can add friends from other schools, or their own school. Either way, students at Loyola seem to love the site.


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