Facebook Is Open, Are You Joining?

On Tuesday the Facebook blog announced they were opening their doors to all, in a post titled "Welcome to Facebook, Everyone." Originally just for college students with a .edu email address, Facebook had expanded to allow high schoolers and employees of select companies to join as well. So now that Facebook welcomes all of us where we were previously shut out, the question is "do we care?" Facebook’s original incarnation, a college network was brilliant in its simplicity. If you were in school, you were on Facebook (and MySpace too, of course). The exclusivity was the key - your mom and dad couldn’t join, for example. Why would we want to join now? What does Facebook offer that we can’t get from the myriad of other social networks we’ve joined in the meantime and other, cooler ones that are just launching? No seriously - what? I honestly don’t know.