Blogpost 10

Yes i would most certainly constitute Facebook as a super-organism. Everywhere around the world people are connecting through Facebook and since it started at the users and expanded to the media and now products it has clearly taken over as a super-organism. Every user is considered as an organism because it is possible for this organism to do work and improve its daily life. When many organisms come together to form a super-organism this creates new ideas and different outcomes similar to the swarm lecture on monday. From personal experience i had joined Facebook when my older sister had told me she had been on that instead of myspace and that myspace is old news now. Well as a young lad, I followed my sisters guidance and come to find out this old social network for helping to find books and schools is now a network for finding friends and businesses. Facebook is a great example of a consumer takeover, meaning that once it became poplar to the world, the media and other businesses started using it to their advantage. Now, you can find certain coupons and special deals on the Facebook pages of these businesses and products. About two years ago in the summer, i was applying for jobs and one of the jobs i wanted because it looked like it was an awesome place to work, was Yogen Fruz in my local mall. This was similar to an ice cream shoppe and a ColdStone mixed together but using frozen yogurt. I thought that this would be the new best thing, and i was in the mall so i could get  to see a bunch of people that i knew walking around, make some money, it was the cats pajamas. Well i go to apply to this Yogen Fruz and they tell me that all their applications are on their Facebook page. This was very interesting to me, that Facebook had this much impact on the world could control whether someone applied for a job or not. The way people are is that everyone follows the community. If everyone in one city is wearing pink armbands to promote breast cancer and you don't wear that armband, you're going to be criticized and discriminated against for not supporting the breast cancer awareness. Everything is slowly become super-organisms.