My observation on Facebook (By Jimmy 96540340)

Facebook is definitely one of the hot issues this year except the terrible typhoon Morakot and the horrifying flu H1N1. Actually, I hadn’t used Facebook until the Pop Culture class. Professor Vinia asked everyone to register a Facebook account to experience the recent blockbuster and observe the reason why it has been so popular all over the world. In my impression, I had received some e-mails about the invitation of joining Facebook during the first half of this year. At that time, I had no idea about what that is; I just regarded them as spams. During this summer vacation, I knew from the news that so many people here in Taiwan have been crazily in love with Facebook that the using rate has been amazingly promoted.
To me, I think the trend is always changing just like a breeze blows and disappears suddenly and quietly. Just like the former beloved Portuguese Custard Tarts, Mister/Dunkin Donuts, and Wretch weblog. Once the trend becomes common, it’s not fresh to people anymore. Take me for example; as a lazy bone like me who is even tired of updating his blog is definitely impossible to log in Facebook daily. I acknowledge that I was kind of addicted to it because of its games. Country Story, Happy Farm, My Fishbowl, and Restaurant City were my favorites. I think this is also the main reason why people in Taiwan appreciate FB so much. However, once more people dig their toes into the FB ocean, problems come out. Company supervisors begin to doubt that if their staff can still focus on working since they even use it secretly during the leisure time between tasks. Gradually, using FB is forbidden in the office.
My observation shows that there are some disadvantages of using Facebook. It’s true that using FB can kill time relaxing, and you can even recontact with your old classmates whom you haven’t seen for about 100 years; but it’s also embarrassing to me since both I and my old classmates just add each others’ accounts to be sources in the games. You can imagine how embarrassing it is that we steal each others’ plants or visit restaurants without chatting in reality.
No matter it’s advantageous or not, using Facebook ‘sometimes’ is really fun. The premise is—no addiction, please.