1 : Welcome to the world of Facebook!

Having to use Facebook so regularly in our daily lives, Facebook has caused a pretty significant effect on us. 

Facebook is a social network that was started out by Mark Zuckerberg and college friends in Feb 2004. Like other social network websites, it has the standard user profile pages, allows users to add friends, exchange messages, automatic notification of updates and also allowing friends to upload and tag photos. It is not surprising that Facebook is one of the most popular social media, given that it has approximate 750 million (July 2011) members who are actively using it. Since the introduction of it, our world has drastic changes, both positively and negatively, changing the way we communicate and interact with one another. 

Due to the large number of members using Facebook, it definitely has its impacts to the society in many ways. On one instance, Facebook has helped mr. John Watson to reunite with his long-lost daughter, Danielle Petratos, whom he had tried searching through many means for the past twenty years! (Eyewitness News, NY). Another similar case is mr. Tony Macnauton and his daughter, Frances Simpson, whom he had lost contact with since she was one, (Ezine Articles) through the help of Facebook.

However, there is also downside to this social media that we called Facebook.

Because people feel safe in the Facebook as they can choose to approve who are allowed to view their profile, they neglected the fact that Facebook can be very opened with their information to their so-called friends, thus, it allows people to take advantage of it like, identity theft, social engineering, cyber-stalking and also cyber bullying! Therefore, one must always be careful of the amount of information you divulge.

Ironically, not only does Facebook helps to reunite families, it also indirectly causes couple to split up. With the increase use of Facebook, according to Daily Mail, 4 out of five divorce lawyers had use social media as evidence of infidelity, and most cases involves ex-lovers rekindled through Facebook, or having Facebook flings.

At the same time, one must be cautious as to not fall into the trap of Facebook and becomes addicted to it. If you are suspecting that you are addicted to Facebook, why not try checking yourself against the list below?

This is taken from CBS News, given by Zack Whittaker who is impossibly addicted to Facebook:

1.  Being paranoia: "Why hasn't this person messaged me back?" 

2. Spend more than one to five hours in Facebook.

3.Unable to differentiate the reality and Facebook. 

4.Adding friends and posting on friends’ walls unnecessarily 

5. Feeling despair when not using Facebook, and having other withdrawal symptoms

To sum up, everything has its pros and cons, what matters is how you use it. The intention of you setting up an account in Facebook is it really to find back long lost friends? Or you actually have other ulterior motive in mind? And you staying in your Facebook account simply because you need to? Or rather is because you cannot resist it?
Lastly,I would like to end this entry with :

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