Facebook: What do I think?

Facebook is something that that everyone I am friends with uses. It's something we use to talk to each other and look at one another's pictures. But people use it for other things too. There are a ton of groups in Facebook that have gained a lot more followers than if the group was started through a paper or website. After reading the Facebook article on The Christian Science Montitor's website (link: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1213/p13s01-legn.html), I was not surprised at all. I know there is a lot of controversy over the ways people use Facebook, but we all knew that would happen.

Yes, I agree that some people can take things too far with hate groups and a lot of kids are just stupid when they put pictures up of themselves doing drugs. However, banning Facebook altogether on a college campus is not logical as most kids use Facebook in a mature fashion. I also think that firing someone because of their facebook is not valid. On the other hand, if an employer sees that the person has irresponsible pictures up, then firing would be valid, just because the person is an idiot not to have taken the pictures down. I think pictures with drinking involved are acceptable, and if someone was fired because of that then I think that would be a problem. All in all, just be smart about using Facebook.

I've been using Facebook for about two years now and to be honest, I wish it was never created. It is just another way for me to procrastinate. Instead of chatting with someone over Facebook I would call them and wouldn't think twice. Now that it is here, it's here to stay. I truly believe that Facebook further dehumanizes us because it actually pushes us farther apart. We are so caught up in technology that face to face conversations have lost their value. Anyways, that's another topic. Thanks for reading my post!