www.facebook.com
During the first decade of the 21st century a popular and
new word has come into our vocabulary. That word is Facebook. This is the most
popular social networking website on the internet. If you haven’t heard about
Facebook until reading this, then you must have been in a coma for the last 5
years. There are about 350 million active users on this website. The main idea
of Facebook is that you can keep in touch with all your friends around the
world who has Facebook. You can send messages to your friend’s electronic wall,
put up a status saying something like “Going to the mall, need to get a new
pair of shoes” or “it’s finally the weekend! :)”.
In the 350 million users on Facebook, 67% of them are between the ages of 13
-25. More than 35 million users update their status every day. 2.5 billion
Photos are added each month.
The highest age groups who use Facebook are teenagers. Most of them keep the
website running whenever they are using the computer and general teens nowadays
are always on the computer, if they aren’t in school/college or when they
aren’t asleep. I feel that teens should be focused on their school work or be
socializing with their friends in person or exercising. Facebook is just
changing the new generation of youngsters completely because the teenage life
is one of the most important stages of life and wasting it on Facebook is not
encouraging this in anyway. It is also a complete distraction to their mind;
like nowadays when all their homework and research are on ICT, they would get
diverted into Facebook just to check if there was anything updated among their
friends.
Remember back in the good old days, when teens would do their homework
handwritten, play sports and hang out with friends. Today, most teens would
only speak to their friends on Facebook, while we can see them battling obesity
as they stare at their friend’s message on their wall. In summary, teens don’t
have a life because they are on Facebook 24/7, except for those who don’t use
Facebook or occasionally do.
Facebook is also where people can see the gossip among their friends, virtual
arguments, relationship status and updates, who is in whose ‘top friends’, you
can become fan of anything, join groups, post pictures and videos, play
juvenile games, invite friends to parties or events and a heap more. Mainly,
all this would just disturb people into living life to their fullest.
It’s not just teens who become addicted even grownups do. An average person
spends about 55 minutes on Facebook. This statistic isn’t that bad but some
people spend about 3-5 hours. Technology might be taking over people’s lives.
The internet is what the youth does almost all the time and other growing
social networking sites such as Twitter might become the next Facebook.
Facebook is getting millions of dollars, in fact $300 million in 2008. Creator,
Mark Zuckerberg is one young genius to change human lives drastically by
changing their social environment. People can also access Facebook through their
mobiles and more than 65 million active users access Facebook through their
mobiles. Furthermore, people who use Facebook through their mobile phones are
50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile phone users. This shows that people
who use Facebook on their phones as well as using it on their computer, just
can’t stand being away from the website. Facebook is like crack to some folks.
I think people should also take a break from Facebook once in a while. This
would make them think how life is like without saying what’s on their mind to
all their friends on the internet. A break would also make them more active,
like socializing in person. This would also help them focus better in school or
in work. If they are in school, they might get better grades because they
aren’t being distracted. Although about 80% of people who take a break would
come back to Facebook within days.
Conversely, the social network does benefit common people. For example, if you
are a student and you’re writing an essay on your computer and need advice
because you are stuck, you can just go online into Facebook and ask any of your
friends who would help. Another way it’s a good service is because it is
completely free to contact any of your friends who lives anywhere in the world;
this is much better than calling someone on the phone which might be expensive
to some people.
In spite of all this, I firmly stick to my opinion.
On a whole, my view about the social network being a big time waster is a true
fact according to me. Teenagers especially, should spend less time on Facebook
and get some sunlight. Adults, who spend their days on Facebook, must be
unemployed because they should have so much work to do or they could make this
world a much better place by doing something productive! My opinion is not
banning Facebook completely because I also agree you should log in sometimes
and I recommend should go on for about 45 minutes a day, if you do have
Facebook.
So, this is my impression of Facebook. I’m sure some part of you agrees with
me.
Name :-KRISHNA KUMAR
Place:- PATNA