Photo: Mark Zukerberg, from Wikipedia.

Facebook was born in February 2004. It now has 500 million active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a 20-year old Harvard Sophomore, with his college roomates and fellow computer science students. Zukerberg’s idea was to form a network so that students could get to know each other better. It was initially limited to Harvard students. Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. He is now 26 years old and is CEO of Facebook, Inc.

In January 2009 Facebook was ranked as the most widely used social network worldwide in monthly active users.

Facebook generated 450 visitors in its first four hours online. Within its first month more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the site. It expanded to Stanford, Columbia and Yale. It gradually expanded to all Ivy League schools, New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expansion continued to universities in Canada and the United States. It currently gains 1 million new users per day, according to David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect.” It is located in Palo Alto, California. Facebook is currently open to all persons age 13 or older with an e-mail address.

The website is now worth some $15 billion dollars. More people visited Facebook than Google in 2010. A movie about Facebook, called “The Social Network” will be released next month.

Facebook is a social network where friends communicate with each other and keep track with what their friends are doing. Kirkpatrick states users of Facebook will reach 1 billion users worldwide within another year. He says that communications between people via Facebook exceeds that of e-mails.

Pahrump, Nye County and residents of the entire state of Nevada are well represented on Facebook. Not only individuals, but politicians and multiple businesses are active on the site. Groups of all kinds maintain active use of Facebook. For example “Positive Pahrump” has 1,781 friends, mostly residents of Pahrump or people actively involved with the Town, reflects positive attributes of the community.

Another group, “Mule-Lick Nevada,” is a humorous parody about Pahrump that is one of my favorites.

Local politicians use Facebook. Both Tony DeMeo and Scott Cobel, candidates for election to Sheriff of Nye County, have a presence on Facebook. You can learn a lot about each just by visiting their Facebook pages.

Whether you love or dislike Sharron Angle you will find her there as well.

Both Laurayne Murray and Dan Schinhofen, competing for election to the Nye County Board of Commissioners pursue their campaigns on Facebook. So do Carolene Endersby, Tom Waters and Don Rust, running for Town Board of Pahrump. Brian Kunzi, candidate for Nye County District Attorney, is there, though I did not find Ron Kent, his opponent.

Oddly, neither the Nye County Democratic Party nor Republican Party maintain a presence on Facebook that I could find. The Nye County Republican Central Committee has a website but seems to ignore Facebook. The Nye County Democratic Central Committee not only ignores Facebook but the internet completely since they have no website presence at all.

One would think both political parties would be communicating furiously with their members by both methods, particularly with the November elections fast approaching.

Facebook’s effect on the American political system became clear in January 2008. Both Facebook and Twitter has virtually revolutionized politics. Facebook is an extremely popular and powerful new way to interact and voice opinions on the political scene.

Facebook has been blocked intermittently in several repressive countries including Pakistan, Syria, People’s Republic of China, Vietnam, and Iran.

The impact of Facebook on the future of the United States has been recognized. Particularly with the younger generation, which is quite familiar with the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, and the whole range of communicative techniques of modern 21st Century. For the first time in history ordinary people are capable of personally interacting with each other, governments notwithstanding. That is a good thing.

You are welcome to read more about this and other matters on the Nye-Gateway to Nevada’s Rurals blog at http://nyegateway.com. You can also follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Featheriver.

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A 20 minute interview of Carolene Endersby was conducted this month which has been presented in six installments from Part I – VI. This is the final installment.

You are invited to watch all six installments to acquaint yourself with Mrs. Endersby and her views about her campaign for election to the Town Board of Pahrump.

You can watch all segments on her campaign website at www.caroleneendersby.com, on YouTube and on Friends of Carolene Endersby for Town Board on Facebook.

This is part V of the 20 minute interview of Carolene Endersby, candidate for Town Board of Pahrump.

This is the Part IV segment of a 20 minute interview with Carolene Endersby, candidate for election to the Town Board of Pahrump

This is Part III of a 20 minute interview of Carolene Endersby, candidate for the Town Board of Pahrump, Nevada.

Today, President Obama  signed legislation to provide urgent fiscal relief to school districts across the country to maintain our education system, and to enable 160,000 teachers to keep their jobs.

The 160,000 figure is nationwide. Nevada’s share is 1,400 teachers.

I assume that a portion of those 1,400 teachers will be here in Nye County.

The question is: “Will those Nye County residents that are concerned about Obama’s ‘big government spending’ rise up  in protest, demanding the federal money be rejected?”

By the way, Senator John Ensign voted No (to reject the money) and Senator Harry Reid voted Y (to take the money). [Congress.Org]

[Source: White House]

This is Part II of an interview of Carolene Endersby, candidate for the Town Board of Pahrump. The 20 minute interview is being presented in segmental clips to facilitate uploading the video files and the viewers convenience for downloading the file to view it.

Part I of the interview can be watched on Mrs. Endersby’s campaign website and on Friends of Carolene Endersby for Pahrump Town Board on Facebook and additionally on YouTube.

This is segment I of a video of Carolene Endersby, a candidate for the Town Board of Pahrump, Nevada.

Carolene was interviewed for about 20 minutes about where she came from, how she came to Pahrump, why she is running for election, what she hopes to accomplish if elected.

There will be a series of  of incremental clips of that entire 20 minute interview uploaded to YouTube and posted on this blog. The reason for the increments is to chop the 20 minutes into small bites making it possible to upload the files for your viewing. YouTube won’t permit uploading an entire 20 minute video—thus it must be done in increments.

In addition to this blog the video’s will appear on Twitter and that way transmitted to some 211 followers of tweets I publish. Additionally the video series will appear on Mrs. Endersby’s campaign website. Also, the videos will be displayed on Friends of Carolene Endersby for Pahrump Town Board on Facebook. Of course you can always see her videos on YouTube.

The plan is to upload each segment in about two-minute segments because of the size of videos and because it permits a viewer to download the videos to watch much faster than it would take it the entire 20 minutes of video would have to be downloaded.

You are welcome and invited to contact Mrs. Endersby about her campaign, her plans and aspirations concerning the Town of Pahrump. You can contact her on her campaign website or Facebook or via her email at ecarolene@gmail.com or phone her at 775-513-0709. Additionally, her calendar schedule is contained on her campaign website so that you will know when and where she will be appearing throughout Pahrump during her campaign. That way you can meet with her personally.

Lots of people in Pahrump have particular concerns about their town and community over a wide range of matters. Mrs. Endersby is aware of that and wishes to meet as many of you as possible to discuss the matters which concern you most. So take advantage of the opportunities to talk with her. You will find she is an excellent listener, very intelligent, very committed to improving our community here in Pahrump. I can assure you that you will be glad you took the time and exerted the effort to meet her.

Watch, meet and learn about Carolene Endersby a candidate for the Town Board of Pahrump.

Also watch for a series of future video clips of Mrs. Endersby as you explains why she is running for election, her journey resulting in her residence in Pahrump, her motivation in running for office and what she hopes to accomplish if elected.

Check out her Carolene Endersby for Pahrump Town Board. Also, visit Friends of Carolene Endersby for Pahrump Town Board on Facebook. You can become her friend too. If you want reasonable, responsible representation from a person with common sense for the common good she is your candidate.