Participate by separate.

I used to be against the use of facebook and held off getting it for over a year, after most of my friends had it. Even with the constant remarks about how awesome facebook is, and how I should get it, I knew it really wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Before I got it, from what I heard, I found it to be a creepy communication device that connected and informed you of people’s lives you either did not know or things you have no interest in knowing. I also thought that if I did get it, I would be just as addicted as my friends seemed to be, and I just wasn’t into that. Eventually, I gave in and started to connect with this online world I was not used to.

Now, nearly everyday I log into Facebook to check the latest updates in my friends’ lives or to be an update in someone’s life. It allows me to leave a comment to a friend, browse their pictures, and further invade their online personal life. Facebook’s many applications are also available to keep users occupied when they have little else to do, or when their procrastination skills kick in; as mine often do. An application I used to frequent was the Bumper Sticker Application. The tiny yet sometimes amusing pictures with witty captions used to hold my attention for much longer than I had planned.

Facebook has recently become one of the things I rely on for communication as I have moved away from home, and my cell phone charger is no where to be found. It is easy to stay in contact with my best friends who have gone to different schools, with my sister who I no longer get to see very often, and arrange get-togethers with people closer to me. Sometimes facebook can be a good thing, but most of the time I find it to be a waste of the time that could be better spent doing things elsewhere.

I find even though Facebook has become a main device for helping me keep in contact with friends, i feel its disconnecting me from the rest of the world. Its use has been overused.