Observation about Facebook (93540313 Tina)

It is very common that almost everyone uses several social networking websites such as blog, twitter, plurk, and windows live (MSN). Now the most popular here in Taiwan is “Facebook.” The number of its users is over five million in Taiwan by early November this year, and its users in the world are over 300 million.

You may wonder that why Facebook is so popular. One of the reasons is that Facebook is not only a social networking website, but also a social utility website that users are not appear with virtual identities but their real world identities. By their names, e-mail addresses and names of school or company, users can easily find their friends, schoolmates, colleagues, and even friends having lost touch with for a long time. In addition, Facebook itself plays multiple roles as blog, album, chat room, forum, messenger, and even application with online games. It makes messages flow faster and faster, and have people become connected and much closer.

Users participate in clubs and make new friends on Facebook. Some games and activities become popular because of Facebook. Through its easy and interesting games and funny short quizzes, people share common topics among their friends and somehow those games have users make new friends and even make friends from friends all over the world. Facebook makes its users connect to the whole world.

Although Facebook is such a popular, convenient, and multiple website, people have to notice that the games provided by Facebook easily make people addicted and conditioned. When enjoying its multiple functions, conveniences, and entertainment, remember that don’t soak yourself too much into it!