I find logging to my facebook account addictive these past few days to check out friends’ accounts to see what’s been happening with them.  It’s good though if one’s purpose on visiting a facebook account is to check on friends and be connected with long lost friends and acquaintances.  Not only that, facebook offers a lot of features that one is obliged to go and visit his/her account due to innovative games that the facebook developer has created (I have never utilized the game feature of facebook though, I find it a waste of time). As for me,  visiting facebook is a way to connect with my friends who I don’t see frequently and those friends who are living far from me.

One of the things that facebook offers is its capability to allow you to peek on someone else’s life even though s/he is not really a close friend, since facebook is too public and some people finds it enjoyable to announce what is happening to their life, then stalking would be very easy.  Some would even add an enemy to their list making them frenemy (friend + enemy) so that they can use some information to get back on the person, and so forth. Oh, I almost forgot I have acquaintances who used to be friends and ended up enemies due to facebook. The reason is quite petty, the other friend made an indirect comment using her wall and the other friend, upon reading the status, felt hurt and since then, the friendship has ceased.  It’s sad, isn’t it?

In any case, i believe the user should use the social networking site wisely. Facebook has athe power to connect and disconnect people. Since, everyone on your circle can see your status and the things that you are uploading on your site, don’t tell too much about what you feel, your whereabout, your telephone number or address, who are you going with,  etc. Don’t give too much information, otherwise, the very information that you are giving out may harm you.