Facebook: A Thief in the Night

Facebook is harmless. Not. facebook is not just the simeple “social media tool” that people like to say it is.  It causes more problems than good.  The biggest problem with facebook is that it is a huge time thief.  People spend countless hours uploading pictures, changing status’, writing wall posts, toying around with applications or “facebook stalking”.  It becomes a trap that people get caught up in and even becomes addictive.  many people will check their facebook page more than every hour of everyday!  The amount of time that people spend on this social network tool could be used to do something productive such as learn an instrument, actually hang out with friends in person, or do something active. 

Along with wasting peoples valuable time, facebook also gets a lot of people in trouble.  There are countless times where Ive seen people find their girlfriend or boyfriend with someone else in their facebook pictures and it always just causes a big fight. Many students will be on facebook during class and wont be paying attention to lectures, causing them to either have to cheat on tests or get poor grades, and probably the biggest trouble Ive seen facebook cause is when pictures from parties get posted. Ive even seen someone get suspended from school because he was at a party that wasn’t even school related but someone in the schools disciplinary department found out about it and it cost him a one week suspension. 

I do have a facebook account myself, but as time goes on and more and more applications are being added as well as more people joining the network that you dont want to be nosing around your personal life (ie parents or elementary kids) i really have stayed away from it.  ive seen it cause so many problems and just waste peoples time that i really dont want to become caught in it.  While facebook may be fun for a little while, it is not a productive use of time and causes more problems that good.  Dont let yourself be the next victim of this thief in the night.