facebook

“Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.” Facebook is a school network based website that lets students create profiles under their name to interact with friends. Recently, Facebook has broadened their associations to the public and one does not need to be connected to a school network to acquire a profile. First things first, because it is called FACEbook, you may upload a picture of yourself to go along with your name on your profile. This picture can be changed at any given time. By having a profile, you can upload photos, publish notes, get the latest news about friends, interact with friends, post videos, and join a network to connect with people who live, study and work around you. Inside a Facebook profile, you can describe your favorites: music, quotes, movies, books, etc. There is also a space on your profile where you can type exactly what you are doing at that moment. For example, mine right now should say, “Katie is..writing her contemporary lit blog." You also have a “wall” where your friends can post written notes back and forth to each other. If you do not want the notes that you write to your friends to be public, facebook also has a message program where you write “messages” to your friends where only you and your friend can see them. Privacy is a huge part of facebook. You can set your profile to only your friends being able to see your profile, or anyone from your school. The only way people from other schools can see your profile is if you have accepted them friendship or vice versa. Recently, facebook added applications to their site. These applications range from alerts, business, dating, education, events, fashion, file sharing, gaming, messaging, music, photo, politics, sports, travel and video. Facebook now has 9,212 applications and is still adding more.
So many people are joining facebook from day to day and it has become one of the most popular websites for people to connect with their friends. For me, facebook has become the ultimate way to procrastinate (I’m sure many would agree with me). But, I also really like the website and I seriously don’t know what I would do without it. That sounds weird but it’s the sad truth.