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The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is responding to claims about the production of a Facebook oriented Operating System, and possibly a Facebook phone. Zuckerberg dismisses these claims and responds that his goal is 'breadth not depth', meaning that he is focused on spreading Facebook to a variety of platforms rather than going in depth on one.

This guy, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is one brilliant man. One thing that confuses me is the this thing about the HTML5 and about Windows 7 for phones that will affected when released for mobile Facebook. But still, this dude I think is definitely going to competing with Bill Gates when it comes to who will the richest.

This talks about students who become obsessed over Facebook and decide to deactivate their accounts.

This article tells the readers about the students who use Facebook, however these students become obsessed(for lack of a better word) over going onto Facebook. It also tells the reader about how some students had began to do worse in school due to overly checking their Facebook account instead of doing homework or studying. This articles tells me about students who had taken action against this, after realizing that they were not doing as well as they had before they had decided to deactivate their Facebook accounts and work harder. However some student said, ""This is temporary. I'll be back," is another." This says that once students have caught back up in school they would reactivate their accounts. This may lead them back to their old habits, but hopefully not.

Facebook is quite the distraction for many students considering that they lose their responsibilities towards their priorities. Often, many students do begin lacking in their school work due the urge to constantly check up on their Facebook for any new notifications. So their action of deactivating their account can't always have a positive impact, for some people are currently addicted to Facebook, taking it away is just not the solution. But for those that can actually handling the deactivation of their accounts are bound to pick up their grades again. When you mentioned that a student said "This is temporary, I'll be back," the student already knows that Facebook is quite the entertainment and cannot "live without it." One can only hope that when students reactivate their accounts, that they won't repeat their mistakes in distracting themselves from their school work.

The article is primarily about the increased usage of social networking sites for altruistic advances. Sites like Twitter and Facebook have become sources of information for people to discuss and come up with relief for the disasters occurring all over the world. Due to the increased usage of these networks, the perfect "central" location to reach out to many groups of people seems like the best option. According to the article, this is a great advancement and benefit for situations such as the disaster in Haiti. Facebook has reported that they have raised "hundreds of thousands" of dollars for the cause through "status updates, chat and micropayment systems." Twitter, specifically, is a method for people to share their motivational bits in their short Tweet updates. The article also brings about current effort of raising awareness and gaining a greater volunteer network for the upcoming Martin Luther Day holiday, for the Corporation for National Community Service. Most importantly, the end of the article brings about a great benefit of using the social networks to connect anyone in the world who wants to help, even if they are thousands of miles away. As seen, the hours spent online every week can be finally put to use for the greater good.

The benefit of social networking allowed a medium of communication, in order to spread and advertise the campaign of Obama. The widespread usage of facebook, myspace, and other popular social networking websites by users was used to promote Obama during the election. He was able to gain many supporters through advertising on these social networks. Rather then excessively spending money on campaigning, it allowed a easy medium of spreading knowledge. Often times a lot of money is spent on president campaigns, and the emergence of social networks as a tool in the campaign helped increase Obama's supporters-significantly increasing his votes.