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The Facebook Effect: How the Social Network Touched 500M Users
by Clint Boulton
Sort Stories by Location
Mouse over the dots on the Microsoft Bing Map to see how many stories were submitted and from where. The more "likes" a story receives, the more likely it is to be featured in the forthcoming Stories’ "Most Popular" section.
Sort by Theme
Users who don't want to view stories by geography can do so by diverse topics, such as college, crime fighting, music and politics.
Facebook User Deborah Well
Deborah Well offers a sort of six degrees of separation story.
Facebook Saves Lives
A western Pennsylvania woman turned to Facebook when she needed a kidney transplant, found a donor online and is now recovering from surgery, according to Fox News/a>.
Reconnections
Facebook helped Michigan's Jesse Vial reconnect with a long-lost girlfriend to win her hand in marriage.
Saving Lives
Sam Devon used Facebook to contact a friend to get himself rescued from a whopper of a storm.
Finding Family
Cheryl Turner Walker used Facebook to seek out and find her father and connect with other family members for the first time.
How to Share a Story
Users type in a brief story and can share it publicly on the Stories Web page by logging into Facebook.
Facebook Stat Counter
Here are the latest usage statistics from Facebook where you can learn how many minutes people spend on Facebook and how many active applications are running on the site.
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Facebook celebrated hitting the 500 million user mark on July 21 by launching a new consumer application called Facebook Stories. Stories is a Web app like everything else Facebook, so users needn't download it. Simply go to this Website to read the stories users have submitted to Facebook describing how the social network has affected their lives. In some cases, such as where a high school student struck up a petition to save a theater, Facebook has been used to affect positive changes. Here is a tour of Facebook Stories, which includes some 200 stories out of the gate and allows users to view them by location around the world or theme. Users may also like and share the stories with their Facebook friends.