If you were born before 2000, you probably remember when Facebook was just getting started as a social media outlet.  Most people weren't getting in on the internet craze until a few years after the ominous Y2K, but once they did, the information-super-highway exploded with activity, and Facebook was more than happy to lead the charge, second only to MySpace.  But now, Facebook has become a giant conglomorate with millions of users and advertisers, not to mention a board of directors, and has recently gone public.  I don't think it's any secret as to why Facebook grew as a social medium, but some are wondering as to what exactly changed in the way Facebook was run and the decisions, specifically recent ones, that were made along the way.

"Something strange happened Monday on the Internet.

Facebook -- the once-underdog social network founded by a kid in a hoodie in a dorm room -- may have officially cemented its status as a titan of the tech establishment it once challenged.

What changed? Facebook -- no longer a feisty startup but a 3,000-person, soon-to-be-public corporation with $3.9 billion in cash and an $85 billion to $100 billion valuation -- spent $1 billion to gobble up a much-smaller competitor, the photo-sharing app Instagram.

When it did so, it stirred up a caldron of ill will that the "People of the Internet" have been harboring toward Mark Zuckerberg's once-hip company. Some Instagram users said they were downloading all of their photos and then deleting them from the app just so Facebook couldn't get its hands on them."

Source: CNN

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