The Lure Of Facebook

At this era of time, a lot of networking sites just popped up as mushrooms everywhere. I remember before when I got addicted to Friendster where I hooked up with my close friends all over the world. Now the lure of Facebook was even contagious as well as infectious. It's so addicting like my experience with Friendster.

Facebook is an online networking service where I can get hold of my family and friends all over the globe. Wherever they are around the world Facebook can reach them as long as they had put up an account on the said networking site.

It has a lot of features like games and chatrooms but the ones that really motivated me to put up an account was that it is easy to correspond and communicate with close friends and families because of the availability of each account's wall to accept comments in just a quick time and for the person for whom the message is intended to be sent and to receive it in just a nick of time.

Eversince I put up my Facebook account last Spring my day is not complete without even checking my messages on my wall and my message inbox. I can easily correspond to my close friends and families on a daily basis. It is my daily cup of tea or coffee every morning. I can even post pictures in an unlimited amount. The whole process is not even frustrating because everything was very quick and the speed was so fast like a roadrunner.

The only thing that annoyed me sometimes are the unnecessary invitations for farmville, cafe ville, fishville, smile messages, pillow messages, mafia war games etc. It always made my wall messy and full so I immediately deleted or get rid of them right away everytime I logged on. I hope the creator can device a way of stopping all those unnecessary messages just like a spam on my regular email. It is so annoying sometimes. It irked me most of the time.

According to Wikipedia Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, and school or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at a start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Historically, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.

The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students but was expanded to other colleges in Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University in the west coast. It later expanded further to include (potentially) any university student, then high school students, and finally to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worlwide.

Facebook has met and encountered with some minor and major controversies before. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.

Privacy has also been an issue and it has been compromised several times. facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property. The site has also been involved in controversy over the sale of fans and friends. But they all evaded those charges and settled them well.

Recently, a January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network site by worldwide monthly active users then followed by MySpace.com. A lot of networking services also surfaced but they were beaten up by Facebook as to the number of memberships around the world.

There has been recent reports of Facebook proposing an initial public offering (IPO), like issue equity shares in the form of stock to investors. However, the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, stresses that it will not be for a few more years, and the company is in no need of additional capital. Also, some analysts fear the Facebook IPO might be a particularly weak one but it would be neat to do your stocks and shares online through Facebook have it be installed in the future. That's a very cool idea!

There was a lot of complaint also among some employers that employee doesn't stay productive because most of the time employees were trying to check their Facebook account from time to time when they are at work thereby lowering the productivity of the company. I myself sometimes check my account at work through my iPhone and I am guilty of the charge, but I always see to it that I do it on my break time.

It couldn't be denied that people are getting hooked to Facebook everywhere. Through word of the mouth, people were trying to dessiminate the speed and accuracy of communicating with close friends and families that's why a lot of people are putting up their accounts immediately. It is the trend now to communicate with love ones online and through a Facebook account.

This 21st century boon has it's own pros and cons but the lure of Facebook is inevitable. It couldn't be arguably denied and is marvelously unstoppable. I am getting hooked and addicted to it all the time and I can't deny the fact that I am deeply hypnotized and mesmerized by it.

Facebook is already my daily bread and it is a huge part of me already. Welcome to the 21st century guys! Welcome to my life Facebook!