My Observation on Facebook by Angela, Hu 96540345

It is really amazing that Facebook becomes so popular among people all over the world! This Facebook fever come into Taiwan this summer and set a record of its quick growing number of Facebook users. Every time I log on my e-mail account, I see the message from Facebook that my friends invite me to use Facebook. It seems if we do not have a Facebook account, we are out of date. Facebook provides many functions for its users including album, games, chat room, mind test, etc. There are a lot of them for you to discover. People use Facebook for many different reasons. Some people use Facebook to stay in touch with friends aboard. Some even use Facebook to find their long lost friends. Still others use Facebook for sharing newest information with others. However, the majority of people use Facebook for playing little games and mind tests. According a recent news report, many workers are caught playing games on Facebook in their working places. The same case happened in our campus, too. One day when I walked into the computer area in our library, almost everyone there were farming on their Facebook! If baseball is American pastime, I believe that Facebook can be said to be our Taiwanese pastime!
I interviewed some of my friends who ever used Facebook and I found something interesting! One of my friends told me that he used Facebook to follow the newest, timely information of his favorite stars. By adding his favorite stars into his friend list, he could always visit them and see if there is something new about them. Another friend of mine told me that she uses Facebook for making friend with people who have the same interest and sharing their information with each other. Besides, my high school classmate even formed a club on Facebook for our high school classmates to stay in touch with each other. With this club, all of our classmates could have our class reunion everyday on Facebook!
Facebook serves to be a convenient tool for us to stay in touch with our old friends and make friends with others in order to build up our human network. However, to make friends with people on Facebook, you have to be very careful. There might be some bad guys on Facebook who want to cheat on girls deliberately. We should use Facebook more carefully! Here I want to provide some guidelines for people to remember when using Facebook. First, preserve your own privacy well and do not invade others’ privacy easily. Second, do not overuse the convenience of Facebook and do not let others overuse it, too. Hope doing so, we could prevent people from being a victim of overusing the convenience of Facebook.