Facebookin'!

It seems like people either love or hate Facebook. I do have a Facebook and I use it, but it’s not like a second nature to me like it is to some people. Yes, I do check it as soon as I get on the computer, but I’m not on it for hours at a time. I thought about deactivating it because it seems like I spend a lot of time on it sometimes, and sometimes I just think like “What’s even the point of this?”, but I do use it for some useful things. I use it to keep in touch with my older cousins that I don’t get to see all the time, and also with family that lives out of state like in California and Michigan. It’s also nice because I feel more “in the loop” by reading things on my News Feed, from family and also from people at school as well. The list of positives, some of them I’ve already mentioned, is quite large. It’s entertaining, informative, and useful. Not only is it useful for keeping in touch with your friends and family, but it can also be used to keep up with homework assignments and projects from your teachers, if they choose to use it that way.  It’s also convenient. You can access Facebook from almost anywhere nowadays. However, there are definitely just as many negatives associated with Facebook. It’s so time consuming, and sometimes you can spend hours at a time on Facebook before you even realize how much time has really gone by. And if you are like me, you might frequently find yourself checking your Facebook during homework, and taking little “breaks” that turn into thirty minutes at a time on The Book.  It also becomes an issue when people use it to bully people over Facebook. There are always going to be extreme negatives along with extreme positives with anything you do, so it’s totally personal opinion on the whole Facebook topic, I think.