Unit 1: Social Networks (1ère Générale)

 The Rise of Facebook

The document under study is an extract from an article, published in December 2010 in Time magazine. It was written by Lev Grossman. The main theme is about how the famous social media, Facebook, has changed people’s lives.

We have learned about the origins of this social media platform: Mark Zuckerberg is the one who created it. He was a student at Harvard at the time when he created a social network that was made to connect students on this campus in 2004. It was called “thefacebook.com”.

Then, the website became famous and spread through different American universities before hitting the whole wide world.

Therefore, in 2010, he was elected person of the year for creating a new system that  helped more than half a billion people to be connected.

Indeed, he created a new way to communicate with one another, with short and instant messages.

To conclude, Facebook has changed the way people communicate and our social relationships and interactions as it has become part of our daily lives.

Homework: Learn the lesson.