Corporate world should take advantage of new social media
By Mary Chen and Casey Ayala | Mar. 24, 2011Facebook has evolved into a social phenomenon that people of all ages around the globe can't ignore. It began primarily as a platform for college students to voice campus gossip online, but it has since turned into an unstoppable business ploy, getting the site to the 500 million user mark just this year, surpassing even the search engine Google in the amount of Internet hits worldwide.