Facebook

If your reading this im pretty sure you are familiar with the social networking site Facebook.  Chances are you probably have an account set up for yourself or you know someone who does.  Although it can give you a chance to catch up with your friends it has a lot of negatives. 

One really bad one is that it can become addicting.  I was reading an article of a person who had to delete her profile and commit “Facebook suicide” because it was ruining her relationship with her boyfriend and eating up to much of her time. 

Which bring me to my next point, people who excessively use Facebook lack physical contact with their peers and the outside world.  It is far too easy to connect with hundreds of people online rather than face to face which many people don’t do enough of.  Also it just eats up to much of your time.  You could just get on to check your notifications and end up just going through many of your friends profiles and just looking at their picture for much longer than you intended.  Facebook also leads to many privacy issues.  People are willing to share much more information about themselves then they otherwise would in real life because they fell Facebook is a safer way to tell the world.  You could also acquire a couple of “Facebook Stalkers” that you probably don’t want.  It is easy for them to find out information about you that they never would be able to in real life without the help of Facebook. 

And really though for the people that use Facebook do you really care what half of your Facebook friends are doing?   Also have you ever been with a friend who loves the book and most of the time when your with them they are updating their status or just going through the news feed seeing what other people are up to rather than just being with you? It is probably the most annoying thing I have ever seen.