What is in a name? you may call
a rose by any name because in “Face book “you never face a book rather it has
taken away the book from your face.
Face book is a phenomenon , a trend and a requirement in today's cyber world.
What kind of requirement ?It is absolutely not that a requirement that you can
not survive with out it or can not manage your day to day life . How ever most
of the computer literates has made it a point to get in touch with their
friends, family , acquaintances and fans through face book, still their are many
who are scared or cautious to use this web page. It has enveloped & coiled the
whole world like a serpent. You can get in touch with your friends all around
the world in just one single page, chat with them , exchange pictures,chuckle,
share songs, videos , messages , missions, events & ideas on just one single
page. You can even promote your products, business and give your ads. There are
a dozen similar sites , my space, Digg , stumble upon , Reddit, LinkedIn etc etc
but no comparison to face book and now the messages are coming along on
Twitter,our small sentences are tweeting side by side.
This whole social networking phenomenon has millions & billions of users on its
site. It is the biggest social networking site where one can get in touch with
the click of the mouse to all his online friends. You have to be watchful not
sharing a handful of personal details that you should never say if you don't
want criminals -- cyber or otherwise -you should be careful about providing too
much private details- Even President Obama warned people to be careful about
their pictures and this warning is especially for ladies because of the
predators and evil minded people. A precaution is must, watch your steps what
are you doing especially in social media. I my self like to share my personal
pictures or information with my close net circle, on Face book a lot many things
go public instead of doing all your privacy control. We make some friends
knowingly or unknowingly because some times an invitation to friendship is
extended which we don't want to deny. The posting we do, the status updates we
provide, show all the details of our day to day activities, in a way your whole
circle knows what new is up or what are you up to do. Some times it is
embarrassing to know that all about me is known to all on your link. But this is
exactly the main purpose. You feel like that sitting quiet on the face book is
just nonsense, click on the likes of your friends postings if you are not doing
any postings right now, comment on their pictures & posts . Some of my FB
friends though keeping quiet would inform me." Oh yeah, I know where you are and
what is going on ?."
It is a good tool for FBI and other secret services and spying agencies to check
your records through FB and nab the culprits or the ones against their
ideologies. Some of the records are revealed when the crime is done, the murder
or the suicide is committed . Then they will look into their profile to
investigate what was he planning or his frame of mind.
The records are checked and criminals are nabbed some times before the crime is
committed . While at other times some con artist is nabbed just for over
smartness.
Face book was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow
students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris HughesThe Web site's
membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was
expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford
University. It gradually added support for students at various other
universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone
aged 13 and over. However,on February 2004, operated and privately owned by Face
book Inc.. As of February 2012, Face book has more than 845 million active
users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a
personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including
automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may
join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or
other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People
From Work" or "Close Friends".
Mark kicked off his two partners and became CEO of Face book and Time magazine's
Person of the year in 2011. Wearing his hoodie jacket which is trade mark like
the sweat shirt of Steve jobs , his sparkling face and shining eyes when he
sends a message on my profile . I'm so enthralled to see him , while he is
sending this to thousand and millions at the same time. His head quarter was at
Palo Alto California. In early 2011, Face book announced plans to move to its
new headquarters, the former Sun Micro systems campus in Menlo Park, California
.
On Wall street the Face book’s value is almost 70 billion dollars. The investors
and financiers are looking forward to buy its lucrative shares.
Face book has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways.
Especially with its availability on many mobile devices, Face book allows users
to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances
wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It
can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and
other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends. One
such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been seeking for 20
years. They met after Watson found her Face book profile Another father-daughter
reunion was between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each
other for nearly 48 years.
Some argue that Face book is beneficial to one's social life because they can
continuously stay in contact with their friends and relatives, while others say
that it can cause increased antisocial tendencies because people are not
directly communicating with each other. Some studies have named Face book as a
source of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested that
using Face book causes divorce and infidelity, but the claims have been
questioned and refuted by other commentators. Yet we can say that it is
addictive and you wish to get in touch and be on it from time to time. New
relations are formed while divorces are occurred. Like every other networking it
depends on a person's own discipline and self control. Last year a 13 months old
baby drowned while the mother was hooked up on Face book.
About Pakistan almost every one with a computer has a Face book account. I have
about half of my family and friends sitting there, chatting and exchanging
views. At the same got hold of some old lost friends and relatives as a bounty.
Learned about a person whose wife has died and the man was in total loss or
grief. A close friend while consoling him asked," can I help you with any thing,
do you need any thing ?" "Yes bring me my laptop, I would like to update my
status."
Their are so many people with fake identities . A girl with a profile picture
and friend with a couple of other friends was with me for the last 3 years.
The other day she informed me that if you do not mind I would like to tell you
that actually I am a boy. I told her that it does not matter with me , you
should consider properly in which gender you are satisfied.