Why Mom's Really On Facebook

With the popularity and significance of social networking and social media sites reaching an all time high, more and more parents are tuning in to see what all the buzz is about. The results from several studies showed that around 90 percent of parents reported creating a Facebook account in order to monitor their children's online activity. These parent's indicated that being able to have access to their child's Facebook page was their initial reason for creating a page themselves- but since social media has become increasingly popular for people other than teenagers, are adults beginning to have other reasons to stay online? 

As hard as our kids may find it to believe, we aren't becoming part of the social media world solely to ruin their social life and drive them crazy. Joining Facebook provides parents the opportunity to reconnect with old friends, possibly track down an old flame, maybe even check out what became of that jerk on your track team in high school- ah with modern technology the possibilities are endless! 

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Facebook makes it easy for adults to keep in touch with far away relatives and friends, sharing pictures and comments with each other with the click of a button. 

Facebook is even creeping its way into the workforce. Countless companies are creating and maintaining Facebook accounts, blog accounts, Twitter accounts, and so on- so nowadays it wouldn't be terribly unusual for you to have to make a Facebook page for your job. 

Since 2010, the amount of mothers in America who are on Facebook has made the jump from 50 percent to over 72 percent- and is most likely only going to go up from there. 

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Can Justin Timberlake Make Myspace Sexy....Again?

With sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest dominating the social media world, it leaves us wondering -- whatever happened to MySpace? 

Let us not forget that it was this site that led the way for other sites like Facebook, but has the door been shut on MySpace forever? Despite its decreasing popularity, we may not have seen the last of this once-upon-a-time social media king. At least not if Justin Timberlake has anything to say about it. 

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In the words of Tim Martell; "Sexy isn't the only thing that Justin Timberlake is bringing back." You are probably wondering what Justin Timberlake has to do with MySpace, and what about Tom!?

Timberlake has teamed up with the Specific Media Group, purchasing the social network for about $35 million dollars. The team is currently working on a brand new, innovative MySpace site. 

Don't mistake this for the old "behind the times" MySpace page, you won't be seeing Tom anywhere on your friend list. This MySpace has been designed to be much more visual, similar  to something you would see on Pinterest- but even more hip, and even more sexy.

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They plan on competing with sites like Facebook and Twitter with a pretty genius registration system. The plan is that users can register on MySpace using their accounts from other social networks. This is an exceptional strategy for two reasons, first it lets users "test the waters", making people more willing to try it out, second, the account information they have provided the other social networking site with automatically be loaded on their MySpace page -- making the transition painless and easy. 

Whether this site will be a hit or a flop remains to be seen, but it is certainly making things more interesting in the social media world!