Facebook: the decent into hell

I much as i try to hid my low opinion of Facebook, i was able to discover the origins of it, surprisingly, from another indirect website. My basic opinion of Facebook can be summed up by BBC's Wall.
On February the 4th, 2004, Facebook was first established by Mark Zuckerberg for students of Harvard Collage as an internal friendship network. What is really scary is that Facebook started as a private, small scale chat site and within a year it had expanded to a million members. Just what compels people to connect with people that they will never know is simple beyond me.
But either way, if your looking for information on the origins of this internet cult, then i suggest clicking here.

Change is progression, a slow thing that is never really noticed untill you consider it.

Have you every wounded on just how your generation dealt with technology advances? Did you adapted to it or were you left behind?
The other day, i discovered that almost everyone in my generation was on Fackbook, that having 400 online friends was considered normal. Although i have never partaken with any of the online friends websites, i have friends who do. I know that i am not a social creature, but even i find it disturbing to think of just how many teenagers thought that talking to strangers online was a good way to spend your free time. What started this trend of allowing complete strangers talk to each other online? How long did it take for the idea to be considered popular?
How did Facebook start?