Facebook, Friends or Foe???
Almost everyday most of people in this world are connected to the internet. They need internet for promotion, communication, update information and many more. We can take a simple example, the amount of internet users in Indonesia always increase in 20% every year. Most of them attract to use social networking situs. And the most favourite social networking situs is Facebook. The increasing of Facebook is faster than the others. By definition, Facebook is a social networking situs that was launched on 4 February 2004 and created by Mark Zuckerberg, a graduated student of Harvard and ex-student of Ardsley High School. Actually, he created Facebook only for his college community, but it's increased to the wider localtion and now Facebook has reached over the world.
Teenagers, even the elders always use Facebook to create friendship and networking. And now, every hours even minutes, most teenagers and the elders always online on Facebook. Because we can see that a lot of teenagers and the elders have addicted to Facebook.. The using of Facebook is very fun. It's availabled in online games, chatting area, physicology quiz and many more. This application of course attract the teenagers attention and make theusers more comfortable to use it. Why everyone loves to online on Facebook? Because Facebook is an effective means of communication since it is easily accessed for everyone. Even now, Facebook can be accessed only from mobile phone with a cheap cost.
Beside of that, Facebook saves money and time to communicate with another friends. Without meeting or hanging out, they can share their mind and speak about everything that they want.
They can share the newest info about everything. And slowly, Facebook will refer their socialization needs become more simple. Because Facebook saves the time, money, and distance to communicate more efficient.
This phenomena indicates that most of people who use Facebook have addicted. This addiction cause people always access Facebook just for their exixtence to update status. They will feel worry if they can't connect to the Facebook. They will forget about eating, studying, working, even their family. So, it is concluded to the awfull addicted beside of drugs. Therefore, we should be carefull in using of Facebook. We should realize the negatives thing that appears from Facebook. It's okay if we use Facebook properly. To avoid this negative effect of Facebook addicted, we can add some psitive activities outside, such as; joining an organization, taking a course, being a volunteer, taking a part time job. So we can reduce the using of Facebook and doing something more usefull for the others.
