ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the efforts to monitor, evaluate, and respond to Facebook's revolutionary effects, to uncover and explores Facebook's symbolic value, the truth needs that it addressed, and the purposes it served. The Facebook revolution rose "bottom up" from the members out of the nucleus of the group experience, itself nestled within the larger context of a changing culture. As social fact, Facebook emerged in the entire world because it serves social, cultural, and personal purposes. Facebook invites graphic entry into the user's life, introducing the group to a self-selected collection of historic and contemporary characters, not the least being the member him or herself, in the pose of mate, parent, pal, child, vacationer, athlete, host, victor, and so forth. As a revolutionary infiltrator, social fact, and a multi-faceted enactment involving all members of the group, Facebook stimulated new meanings and depth to experiences, past and ongoing.
