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Facebook Taking over Reality

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Facebook taking over reality

Facebook has become a big trend for the social networking set as well as our generation. Mark Zuckerberger the creator of facebook wanted to be able to keep in touch with his classmates and gets to know them better over the internet. It became a success right away. The website became extremely popular, even additional colleges joined the website well. Within a year the website was available for everyone. Facebook has allowed people to create new relationships, friendships as well as meet people that would probably never meet in reality. Facebook has created that unwanted space between people who could communicate in person, but chose to communicate through facebook.

Facebook has taken over our generation and it could be for better or worse, but it's just getting bigger and bigger throughout the whole world. Each day facebook will amaze people with their new features. More and more people are becoming addicted to it, first thing they'll do in the morning is checking their facebook and see what they have missed over night. It's odd knowing that more and more people are focusing on facebook and becoming more sonically awkward in life. This is not what facebook was meant for.

Through facebook you can learn so much more about a person then you could ever imagine. In reality it will take couple weeks to learn all sorts of things about someone, unlike on facebook it takes just couple clicks. From religion a person practices to the school currently attending and have attended to the person likes and dislikes is all available on facebook. It's incredible how easy someone can learn so much about a person within couple seconds, by just looking through their profile. Although facebook does have an option of how much sharing a person want to do, it's still all very public. Cretin people will choose share everything about them even including phone number and other personal information that should not be put on facebook. On the other hand there are people who will share very little.

Facebook has given the chance to make online friends who have a lot in common with someone almost like finding the other half of you. Facebook gives the ability to keep in touch with old friends as well those who don't live close. In addition a person can reconnect with family, coworkers and colleagues. Facebook gives the option to post videos and photos on other people profiles and your own profile. A person can update their status as many times as they want. That way it's easy to share information with everyone. People can create groups as well as join them. By creating groups and joining them it allows people to express themselves and meet other people that have common interests. With other few million people on facebook its easy to connect with other people and add them to friends list.

On other hand facebook has become unbelievably straightforward

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