Facebook.
Facebook is a social networking website which most of us are familiar with as most of us surely have a facebook account. It was only launched in February 2004 and as of July 2010, there is already more than 500 million active users all over the world. Users create a profile, add other users as friends, exchanges messages, join interest groups and receive notifications.

Through facebook, users can keep in contact with friends they have not met in years. That is because, whenever your friends update their status, it will appear on the news feed. These status informs their friends about their daily activities. In this way, you will know how your friends are doing and you do not need to meet up with them to ask them how they are. It is also a platform for users to engage in social activities as this social networking website can widen your circle of friends and also to get to know them better by viewing their profile. Facebook also has numerous features on how users can interact. One way is by writing on your friend's wall which are messages for your friend to see. From there, users can comment on the wall post. Users can also create photo albums and upload photos into the albums. Photos can also be shared with friends by tagging them in the photos.

However, there are also drawbacks from this popular social networking site. One obvious disadvantage is addiction. Most of us are addicted to facebook even though we are not aware of it. I'm sure as you are reading this post, most of you have a facebook tab now or it is also the first website most people log on to once they switch on the computer. This is not only constricted to the computer, many of us now own smartphones and we could now log on to this website at any time anywhere and a majority of us became obsessed to check your notifications every few mintues. Facebook could be a distraction to many of us as we would rather spend time on facebook than studying. Another drawback is the privacy. Many of us may not private the account or adjust the privacy settings properly and therefore, many people whom you may not even know personally can view your photos and profile.

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