I’m going to go straight into story without any introduction about the history of facebook, what it does, and etc. I assume we all know what facebook is. I got acquainted with facebook in early October of 2005, my ex-girlfriend at the time was attending Wilkes University and she signed up on facebook and asked me to do so as well. Of course I asked what it was. I did not know. I thought it had something to do with school, or it was a club or something. After finding out what facebook was I joined facebook. Of course at the time facebook was not in any shape or form similar to what it is today, but it had very same idea, to make social networks.

I think from there on the problem of facebook or not facebook started in me. And it grew bigger and bigger as time passed. I added more and more friends, posted more and more wall posts, uploaded more and more pictures. Before I knew it, I was a facebook addict. I spent many hours on facebook per day. I had to check facebook as often as I could, and I was kind of nervous when I was not on facebook. So facebook became very important in my life.

At some point in 2007 I started fighting back, and tried to fix this problem in me. I deactivated facebook and deleted everything in it, so that I would not be tempted to go back on it again. However I did, I went back. I think since then I have deactivated my facebook account well over 5 times. Each time I deactivated it, I deleted every single friend, and soon enough I went back.

Facebook is really great, don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with facebook in fact it’s very helpful when it comes to finding your old buddies from first grade. But it has its own flaws, and not just one or two but  a lot.

I’m not going to list all the advantages and disadvantages of facebook here, but let it suffice to say that I am currently on facebook simply because for the past 2 months when I was not on facebook I felt like I was dead. No one ever called me, no one ever asked me how I was, no one recognized the fact that I wasn’t around anymore. I missed out a lot.

To be honest, I have to say that I hate facebook, I wish I was never introduced to facebook. BUT I have to say it is a good tool, it can be extremely helpful, or extremely devastating, that all depends on how you use it. I think after almost 5 years of being on facebook I have just recently really learned how to use it. So I’m now hoping that I don’t ever have to spend hours on facebook because I’m addicted to it, nor do I have to deactivate my account.