Blog assignment #37

Ah yes, Facebook. It's name brings smiles to people's faces.... hence the name FACEbook. Memories of fun times on "fbchat" and laugher at statuses run across one's mind whenever its name is mentioned. This is not an easy task. To say that this one little phrase, this... this one little website, that brings joy to over one million people is the whole reason for its existence.

Facebook is a site that was originally designed for only college students who wanted to keep in touch with their friends and teachers. Though it started out of a small dorm room with only two college students as its administrators, it has grown to over a million users, both in college and not in college.  Its layout is simple.... you log on, and a screen that shows you a list of friends comes up. Within this list it details all that your "friends" are doing. It displays anything from where they are at a certain point in time, to who they are dating (or not dating) and what that person believes in.

Most people who join, use it anywhere from 12 am to... 12 am. yes a whole 24 hours. It seems that people are always on facebook. Even if they're not, they have a tab open with the line "Facebook- Home"! You can't run away!!!! it has gotten so bad that there are even sidebar gadgets and widgets that allow you to access news feeds and statuses right from your own desktop! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO BE ON FACEBOOK EVEN ONCE A DAY.

Now this may be helpful, in the aspect that you can catch up with friends whom you haven't seen in a long time, or just know what "lil kid from across the street" is doing almost every second of everyday. I mean after all, it was intended for people to keep up with what is happening with their friends. But it can also very harmful as well. People have become so addicted to facebook that they literally put every single detail of their life on there. Now if someone wants to be stupid and get stalked, that's on them, but how many people overuse facebook and post like twenty to thirty statuses a day? Tons of people, if you wanna know. Facebook can be seen as a invasion of privacy to some and a way to get stalked by fat, old men with nice hairy beer-guts.

yes, yes, yes I know, I know. That's mean, but it's the truth. So there it is.... there is the fact of facebook and how it is. Don't ask me why it's like this... it just is. And that's all i got to say 'bout that. (Forest Gump, people come on)