Monday, April 6, 2009

Social Networking Services (FACEBOOK)

Some people say that facebook is bad, but others say that facebook is good; which one is it?
In order to create a facebook all you need to have is a name and an email address. Once you have that you are set. Once you create your account, you then begging to look for your friends. Accounts are allowed to private or open. If you account is private, no one can look at your profile unless they are friends will you but if your account is open, anyone can look at you account.
It is actually a little bit scary. There is a large amount of information on your actual facebook account. When you create it, you are giving away your name, your birthday, your religion and political views, your relationship status, your school, and all of your friends. If you had a stalker, this is a gold mind for them. On facebook there is an application, where you post up what you are doing or just how you are feeling. It is a way to express how things are going in your life at that period of time. In that aspect it is like twitter.
Facebook also has the application of posting all of your photos. This is a way of letting people know what you have been up to. So, if someone went to an amazing party the night before you can be sure that the next day those photos are going to be up there. If you are friends with a person who is in the photo you can look at the whole album that person put up, even I you don’t know them. Having photos of yourself up on a website can be dangerous at times. You have to be very careful that you don’t friend the wrong person.
You can access facebook through any computer. Facebook even has the application of going on it through your phone. It has a way of getting you hooked. Facebook has so many different applications and sites you can go through, you could be overwhelmed for hours.
Yes, facebook is useful because it is a way to communicate with friends, but it has a lot of downsides. It is a great way of keeping a friendship with someone if you both go to completely different schools that are far away from eachother. It is bad because you are giving a lot of your information away. Your photo is out there for the whole world to see. Facebook is also bad, because it is very time consuming. There are a lot of people who just sit on facebook for hours and hours.
- SARAH DOMINGUEZ-

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