“It’s really addictive and costing me millions”, says Tumeka Ngqongqwana a work colleague when asked what she thinks about the second largest social networking on the website”
With an estimated 280 million registered users, facebook has become the most popular social network among youths and these numbers are growing, with more than 175 million users logging into the site daily.This record breaking social network was brought into existence by former Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg on February4, 2004. Facebook primarily focused on High School and college students but now found its wings in Universities, organizations, and companies all over the globe making it the new communication instrument in our world today.
Arguments have being going on on Radio, Television and the Internet on why young people throw their weight on these forms of communications as a means of making friendship rather than face to face communication or telephone conversations that our fathers grew up with. Many young people argue that facebook is a blessing because it’s a new way of effectively staying in touch and sharing pictures with our families and friends from all over the world. Within seconds one can communicate and share one’s current look with anyone around the world. In the past it took half a year to send one’s message and pictures across the world.
According to the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Facebook leads young people to seek “transient” friendships, with quantity becoming more important than quality. To him, the key factor in suicide among the young people is the trauma caused when such relationship collapse. Skill such as reading a person’s body language is in decline, and the exclusive use of facebook has a “dehumanizing” effect on community life.
Anonymous Cape Peninsula University student, says “although we all love “facebooking”, let us not forget who we are because many companies are searching for their job applicants on facebook to check for competence. Many users have forgotten about reputation when updating their crazy pictures and weird wall posts on their profiles. Privacy is no longer in our hand as it’s widely known that facebook have access to our profiles and can collect date to determine who our closest friends are”. According to research, facebook tracks everything, every photo we view, every person we tagged with, every wall post we make. Even our demographic details appeared to everyone who logs on to facebook.
The question we should ask as users of facebook: Is facebook a blessing or a curse? Can we continue flagging on or stay away from these computer friendships? Or can we say that the reason is rooted in the human mind and its personal motivation. The bottom line is whatever that happened on the facebook you sign them to yourself. Enjoy facebooking but . . .
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