Last night, just before bed and as I do every night,  I powered up my iPad to take in my personalized news feeds, from the multiple services I find useful (the detail around the services will be left for another blog post).  Nonetheless, I started to read an article about Goldman Sachs and how it plans to tackle private treatment of  Facebook shares.  Interesting stuff, I thought, until I got to a part of the article where they proceeded to give me a definition of Facebook: “Facebook, the wildly popular site used as a message board and for online social networking” (Reuters 2011).  I found the attempt to define Facebook, in this day and age, odd.  I mean, if my mother and her friends can spurt out what Facebook is, then I am sure anyone interested in reading an article about Facebook, definitely does not need the definition served to them.  The whole, ‘define the most popular social network known to man’ thing, then sparked an interest in me, to go through the years, from Facebook’s launch to now, to see how the definition has changed.  In the articles defence, maybe I missed a major defining change from 2010 to 2011 or even 2009 to 2011.  Sadly, for this article, my definition research proved as I thought it would – the definition, within the past two years, has not changed.  So with that being said, we at ad-ition chose to not let our research go to waste and as a result, now present to you a visual of Facebook definitions, taken from multiple, popular news sources, spanning from 2003 to now.  We’ve done our best to grab statements that not only define Facebook, but also give you some insight into how the site was transforming itself, in that year.  Oh and just in case you wondering, TheFacebook.com is still a working URL – but we’re glad they decided to drop the “The”!