Facebook is a phenomenon, a
trend and a requirement in today’s cyber world. What kind of requirement? it is
not a requirement that you can not survive without it or can not manage your
daily life.
Most of the computer literates
has made it a point to get in touch with their friends, family, acquaintances
and fans through Facebook, still their are many who are scared or cautious to
use this website.
It has enveloped & coiled the
whole world like a serpent.
You can get in touch with your
friends all around the globe in just one single page, chat with them, exchange
pictures, chuckles, share songs, videos, messages, missions, events, ideas
on just one single page. You can even promote your products and give your ads.
There are a dozen similar sites,
myspace, Digg, stumbleupon, Reddit, LinkedIn etc but no comparison to Facebook
and now the messages are coming along on
Twitter, our small sentences are tweeting side by side.
This whole social networking
phenomenon has millions & billions of users on its site. It is the biggest
social networking site where one can get in touch with the click of the mouse
to all his online friends.
You have to be watchful for not
sharing a handful of your personal details that you should never say if you
don’t want criminals - cyber or otherwise - you should be careful about providing too much private details - Even
President Obama warned people to be careful about their pictures and this
warning is especially for ladies because of the predators and evil minded
people.
A precaution is must, watch your
steps what are you doing especially in social media.
I myself like to share my
personal pictures or information with my close net circle, on Facebook many
things go public instead of doing all your privacy control.
We make friends knowingly or
unknowingly. The posting we do, the updates we provide, show all the details
of our day to day activities, in a way
your whole circle knows what new is up or what are you up to do.
Sometimes it is embarrassing to
know that all about you is known by all on your link. You feel like advertising
it to the public and that sitting quiet or idle on Facebook is just nonsense,
click on the likes of your friends postings if you are not doing any postings right now, comment on
their pictures & posts.
Some of my FB friends though
keeping quiet would inform me.”Oh yeah, I know where you are and what is going
on ?.”
It is a good tool for FBI and
other secret services to check your records through FB. Some of the records are
revealed when the crime is done, the murder or the suicide is committed. Then
they will look into their profile to investigate the details. The records are
checked and criminals are nabbed some times before the crime is committed.
While other times some con artist is nabbed just for over smartness.
Facebook was founded by Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates
and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris HughesThe Web
site’s membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students,
but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and
Stanford University.
It gradually added support for
students at various other universities before opening to high school students,
and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over.
Users must register before using
the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as
friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they
update their profile.
Additionally, users may join
common-interest user groups, organised by workplace, school or college, or
other characteristics, and categorise their friends into lists such as “People
From Work” or “Close Friends”.
Mark kicked off his two partners
and became CEO of Facebook and Time magazine’s Person of the year in 2011 when
he was only 26 years old. Wearing his hoodie jacket which is his trade mark (like the sweat shirt of Steve
jobs in which he was seen in all his presentations), with his sparkling face and shining eyes when he
sends a message on my profile.
I’m so enthralled to see him,
while he is sending this to thousand and millions at the same time. His
headquarters was at Palo Alto California.
In early 2011, Facebook announced
plans to move to its new headquarters, the former Sun Microsystems campus in
Menlo Park, California .
Facebook has affected the social
life and activity of people in various ways. Especially with its availability
on many mobile devices and smart phones. Traveling on a delta flight found a
free WiFi available in the air for Facebook.
The entire print media, YouTube
& other video networks are linked to Facebook. With a click of a mouse you
can add it up to your profile, from there one is able to share it with the
whole group.
Facebook allows users to
continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances
wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It
can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and
other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends. One
such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been seeking for
20 years.
They met after Watson found her
Facebook profile Another father-daughter reunion was between Tony Macnauton and
Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years.
Some argue that Facebook is
beneficial to one’s social life because they can continuously stay in contact
with their friends and relatives, while others say that it can cause increased
antisocial tendencies because people are not directly communicating with each
other.It is so much common in families and the family rooms that three or four
people sitting their, holding their laptops, tablets or phone screens and busy
on FB or other networks while the TV is running on. A lot is now said & preached about disconnection to get on some family time & chat.
Some studies have named Facebook
as a source of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested
that using Facebook causes divorce and infidelity, but the claims have been
questioned and refuted by other commentators. Yet we can say that it is
addictive and you wish to get in touch and be on it from time to time. New
relations are formed while divorces are occurred. Like every other networking
it depends on a person’s own discipline and self control. Last year a 13 months
old baby drowned while the mother was
hooked up on Facebook.
About Pakistan almost every one
with a computer has a Facebook account. I have about half of my family and
friends sitting there, chatting and exchanging views.
Learned from a friend about a person whose wife has died and the
man was in total loss and grief. A close friend while consoling him asked,” can
I help you with any thing, do you need any thing ?” “Yes
bring me my laptop, I would like to update my status.”
Their are so many people with
fake identities. A girl with a profile picture and friend with a couple of
other friends was with me for the last 3 years.The other day she informed me
that if you do not mind I would like to tell you that actually I am a boy. I
told her that it does not matter with me, you should consider properly in which
gender you are satisfied and pleased.
Facebook keep on changing and
updating from 2008 when I started using it. Now it has a “Timeline’ showing all
the posts in the time frame you have posted on it. It will make collage of your
posted pictures, a summary of your year in status, a lot of games, mafia wars,
translations and a lot more.
Now it depends on us are we just
wasting our times or making some good & useful out of it.
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