Cloud Computing and Facebook Community

Leading the Web 2.0 movement is Facebook, which was something of an online yearbook for college when it was started by a Harvard student in 2004 but now it is the leading social networking site on the internet. Many have pegged the market value of Facebook today in billions of dollars.

The structure of Facebook allows its users to belong to different social networks. For example a social network would be where someone went to school, or where someone works. Other social networks include political affiliations and other interests that people may share with each other. Old friends are able to meet up with each other using the site, and people can keep track of each other even if they have lost touch with one another for whatever reason.

The impact of Facebook on cloud technology is huge. Because of Facebook, companies are trying to figure out new ways that they can link people with each other via networks of commonality. The only way to be able to parse this type of information is by using raw processing power.

What Facebook represents is an all in one package for people to communicate, and as such requires a lot of servers. It has been said that Facebook is running over ten thousand servers right now, and will need many more in the future.