PUNJBOB: Facebook

Facebook. The social networking site that probably has more visitors than any other site in the World Wide Web per day. Most people around the world are addicted to the major site, without it, their day wouldn’t be complete. I was once a FF – Facebook Fanatic. I started Facebooking not long ago, on the 4^th of March 2008. Up till now, I have 359 friends. Here’s my journey through Facebook.

2008. The year I created a Facebook account finally after hearing it about it from many different sources. In that year, I was in Primary 5 and was addicted to Facebook for at least half the year. I would be making use of the applications, taking quizzes, or playing games. To me at that time, Facebook was just another game site as then, I did not have many friends on that extraordinary site.

2009. The year I took my PSLE. For the first half of the year, visiting Facebook was normal but not long later in that year, I had paused using it as I had to prepare for the major exam that was coming up. However, after the exams, Facebook became my best friend. I used to visit that amazing site everyday without fail. It was like being in prison. I wrote on walls, sat around and did nothing and got poked by people I didn’t even know.

2010. It was the year that changed my Facebooking history. I had tried to stop using Facebook as much as usual. I stopped using the Facebook applications. All I did if I went on that site was to write posts or like links. However, it was also the year when my Friend List bloomed. I added many other people, probably because before that they weren’t on Facebook before this. Eventually, I rarely visited that site, but if I did, I was sure to have a good reason to do so. Nevertheless, the website became my best buddy again during the holidays due to the fact that I had nothing better to do

2011. This year. I still don’t frequent that site daily, but instead weekly, as I feel it is very time consuming. Facebook to me now is like the place I can go when I am bored, as by reading my friends’ updates, their posts and liking new links I feel alive and animated after that.

Overall, I feel Facebook is like a jungle. Once explored, you will know what it is about. You can also get knowledge, like in the jungle you can learn about the animals and creatures. You can also get sucked in and addicted, just like being lost in a jungle.

Thank You, Mark Zuckerberg for Facebook.