Whenever we say the word Facebook, one of the first things that pop to our minds is the blue and white well defined webpage design, friends, pokes, pictures, and comments. Yes, Facebook had indeed become a word that is almost as well known as the famous touristic site. This website is now a famous star, the center of attraction of many people, and a place where almost each and every one of us visits daily. Whatever the reason is, we find ourselves sitting on our desks every day and browsing through photos, commenting on our those pictures, adding some people you think you might know or would like to know, or even poking someone for attention.
This Facebook plague has been critiqued by many writers and sociologists. They say that Facebook's applications are making us waste a lot of our valuable time. Most of us now spend hours scribbling on each other's graffiti walls, playing online Facebook games, uploading photos and doing many other activities. Such a website, as he mentions, is not really very popular for people who are busy and do not have the time for such time consuming futile applications. In addition to that, I believe that Facebook, with all its restricting privacy settings, still does not provide its users with a good protective medium for it makes our own personal information at sake by making some of our information available on search engines such as google.
Moreover, we can point out a very important issue that is not really very obvious to people. Facebook is making fortunes because we use its applications. It receives millions of dollars for the ads and commercials it posts on the web and for the games it promotes for. And instead of actually thanking those users, the user ends up forced to pay money in some of the applications like the gift application. Furthermore, in order to promote for its applications, Facebook also forces the users to invite some friends before actually granting this user access to the application itself.
Facebook connects us to cousins abroad that we barely knew about. We share photos, message each other, and participate in many activities together although "virtually". Furthermore, Facebook has given us the capability to reconnect with friends that we have lost contact with years ago. It really delighted me when we found out that some have pursued their education at prestigious universities and others are now excelling in their majors. Such friendships do interest us because on the long run some of them might even turn out into lifelong solid bonds.
Moreover, joining some of Facebook groups has also helped us in several other areas. Some of Facebook's groups can provide access to people who can help each other out, like a built in support system. Such groups are formed throughout the internet nowadays as people can readily voice their opinions without having to attend a stuffy meeting that doesn‘t work for their schedule.
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