Do you have a Facebook? If you don’t, do your friends have one? Or your parents, siblings or even grandparents have fun? I’m sure you said yes to at least one of those questions. It is crazy how nowadays almost everyone I’m around has a Facebook. 
What is Facebook exactly though? Is it a way to keep in touch with long lost friends or the people you see on daily basis? Either way, I’m not sure about everyone else but when I go on Facebook, by the end of my thirty minutes or so online, I usually find myself on a page of someone I don’t even really know or even have never meet.
Is it healthy to be so fascinated by the status or photos of people we really probably don’t really care about or even talk to? Facebook also encourages infatuation, which turns into actual stalking by definition, yet no one really thinks of it this way. Facebook has become so addicting and so consuming that some people’s idea of fun is Facebook itself.
After reading an intriguing article called, “How Facebook Is Taking Over Our Lives,” it is clear that I am not the only person who feels and acts this way toward Facebook. Don’t get me wrong, I still update my status and upload photos on a week-to-week basis but I still find it sad this is what people of our lifetime do on their spare time.
The communication of our generation had strictly turned mostly to technology. We no longer send letters in the mail or even a simple phone call but rather send messages through Facebook or comment on their wall. We lost most of our real life communication. Instead of receiving phone calls we now receive notifications. Is this healthy for us? And if it isn’t, is there anyway we can change what has become so dominant in our way of communication.
However, Facebook has very much increased the world of advertising. Even without paying for an add on the corner of a website, but just uploading a status saying, “Free Grand Slams at Denny’s today,” enables us to advertise for anything and everything. On the other hand, Facebook has very much impacting the workplace and classroom, in not the best way possible. People focus less on their work if the Internet is available. It is easy to get caught up on having Facebook on an open tab at all times. This makes it possible for you to see when notifications are received so you can respond back quickly. Yet, because of how addicting Facebook is, once opening that tab for a second, it could lead you to open up link after link, resulting in a very big distraction when trying to get things done.
Facebook has changed our Internet fascination dramatically. With 175 million people on Facebook, the popularity will only increase until a more popular and sophisticated social network takes over.
