Lanaya Salim (FGCU) Facebook

25. March 2009 by student.

So I, like most, have a facebook. It keeps me connected with old friends and keeps me update. I log on all the time, and tend to stay on for quite to long. AS many of us know, facebook keeps changing. The new way makes it much easier for everyone to know your business. This may or may not be a good thing. Take for intance you being friends with your boss or family members. They see what you are up too and if it’s not so good they might go and tell your parents. Or, you call in sick for work, but then your status says ” at the beach”, coworkers find out and let your boss know, you get into trouble. Even with all of this though we still log on everyday, we update our status, write on our friends wall, tag pictures and take stupid quizzes to pass time. It gives us something to do, and since “everyone is doing it” why not? We think about the consequences our “facebook” actions may have and we still do whatever we feel like. Now of course this isn’t true for everyone, but come on who hasn’t  had something on facebook that they didn’t want there.

Now, with the ever changing economy, there is talk to charge users to be on facebook. This should NOT happen, I mean you don’t see myspace charging. Everyone will then just go back to myspace and forget about facebook. The creator is already making a ton of money of facebook anyway, so why charge users? Why charge us to stay connected?    Also, a few weeks ago, it was annouced that once you delete your facebook, the photos and everything on it still stay property of facebook. This of course sparked a lot of controversary and that idea was nixed. But why do they have to keep changing around something we all like so much? Clearly there is a reason half the people who have a facebook and myspace, just now only have a facebook. If things keep going this way, there won’t be anyone on facebook.

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