Long time technology author and commentator, David Kirkpatrick has recently released ‘The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World’.

For those of you who want to understand the increasing place of Facebook in our kids’ lives it is well worth a read – not that it is gripping stuff, but it does go some way to explaining why the site is so ’sticky’ for teens and older people alike. And also increasingly for younger and younger children.

The book is written as a-yet-to-be-concluded account of a website that is more about the dreams and passions of its (young) creator, Mark Zuckerberg, who is intent on ‘friending’ the world and demonstrating the power of ‘open-ness’. Or if you like, how Facebook is much more about changing our understanding of privacy than it is about making money. I’m not sure you will be impressed by the writing nor by what is really an overly glowing story of Zuckerberg’s achievements. But its good to have a handle on what has become in mid 2010, a defining experience for so many the world over.

If you read it let me know what you think.

@admin [+]September 29th, 2010, 20:27