What I learned in our first class weekend

This class weekend was really good for me. I have been confused about many things in the class so far and the weekend of face to face class time was useful in helping to solidify the content of the class work for me. I liked the discussion time that we had both Friday night about the United Nations document that we'd read previously, and about the articles that we all read on Saturday morning.
The article I read was really interesting in the way it talked about Complex Adaptive Systems as being similar to a flock of birds; when one bird changes course the course of the whole is altered. This made me think of facebook. I wonder if when facebook was created anyone ever thought that advertisers would look at it as a legitimate form of advertising or that programmers would create so many different ways to use the technology. Facebook has changed because of a collaboration of several people.