Monday, 20 January 2014

Facebook; The Big Time Waster



The world’s most known Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg back in February 2004 with his other fellow college friends from Harvard University. A website that started as a membership website for the Harvard students has now become the most popular social networking website in the whole wide world. It is known for its easy access of staying in touch with your friends, sharing your interests, keeping up with your favourite celebrities and many more sort of entertainment. In relation to this, does this entertainment bring any good to us?

 

There are over 35 million active users on this website. Could this people be real? Or some people who are paedophiles trying to get to know you. In my point of view, these days teenagers have been sharing too much and very personal details on Facebook, especially your whereabouts and which elementary you go to which is not helpful for your security.

 

In relation to this, exposing your details in this sort of website could also sell your identification for scamming in a blink of an eye especially your birthdate.  Fake identification has also become popular and mostly occurs in social networking websites. People could just use your identification to create fake profile to insult or harass someone. This could lead to cyber bullying and suicide cases which are known amongst youngsters.

 

Furthermore, socializing by facing the computer all day does not bring any advantages to us as well. I feel that teens should be focused on their school work or be socializing with their friends in person or exercising which develops your communication skills and stimulate your senses. 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 any way.

 

In my opinion, this sort of entertainment is very addictive and could bring disadvantages to us as it consumes most of our time. We should always instil this phrase in ourselves, ‘be wise an owl’ in the matter of using time as time is gold. We could spare our ample time by revising, doing some quality time with family or even recreation activities. Therefore, in my opinion, Facebook is big time waster.