I emailed these basic articles on Facebook to our faculty, thought I’d post here as well.  These are just a few of the seminal pieces that set up the environment.  News about Facebook comes out every day.

• Business Week Special Report on the Future of Social Networking – very comprehensive May 2008
• Wired: How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web’s Hottest Platform – Sept. 2007
• Newsweek: Facebook Grows Up – August 2007
• Time: The Future of Facebook – July 2007 – several related articles with this story.
• There appears to be a Harvard Business School Case Study of Facebook, but you have to pay $6.50 to get it

Two research articles from Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication:

• “The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of
  Online Social Network Sites”
• “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship”