Stay Connected!

Facebook has taken over our lives! In the last six years people all around the world have been exposed to the biggest social networking sight know to man.  Facebook,. with nearly 800 million active users  has become a new way to connect with friends, family and socialise online.

We all know what Facebook is, but how did it start?

Founded in 2004 By Harvard Student, Mark Zuckerberg  and his roommates. Facebook was originally call ‘thefacebook’ it soon became popular as, a free collage networking website and later was expanded to include anyone and everyone. Ii soon became one of the biggest forms of mass media, and is the worlds most visited web site to this day, even overriding Google.

With Facebook being the new phenomenon, it has largly affected our social life. With its easy access through mobile phones, IPods, computers and many other developing technologies,  it allows users to stay in touch with  their  ‘Facebook friends’ anywhere  and everywhere in the world with internet access. Within a few minutes of ‘Stalking’ someone’s profile you can find out what gender, religion and country they live in. Facebook allows people all around the world to connect with friends and family near and far, through one website and bring them together regardless of the physical separation. It has become an easy way to communicate. Uploading photos and videos from our daily lives for  our ‘Facebook’ friends to see.

Facebook has also become a  convenient way of learning, even though Facebook is banned in most New Zealand high schools, it  has become an excellent way to learn and ask questions outside of school. With Teachers creating restricted groups on Facebook, where students can have the teachers guidance and help with homework after school hours. 

The following link shows how Pompallire Cathoilc College’s Science class finds Facebook helpful out of school.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/whangarei-leader/6127140/New-tool-for-after-school

Although Facebook is generally used to ‘stalk people that you ‘may’ or may not know, it could be used for so much more. With the vast number of people on facebook,  just think how fast we could help people! Or become aware of a problem such as KONY. A few months ago me and many others around the world have never heard of the name KONY  

but after a few days of the video being shared it seemed to have to have spread over Facebook like a virus.  

 Although Facebook is a convenient way to keep in touch with friends, family, play games, study, upload pictures, videos and make Statues on how your day went. There is also a negative side – because sometimes people are affected by cyber bulling. This can happen on all social networking sites, they can also get extremely addicted to Facebook that they lose touch with reality.

Facebook has taken over the world!!

Can you imagine the world without facebook?