While on face book you never face a book

Abida Rahmani

What is in a name? You may call a rose by any name because on “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 present day's cyber world. 

What kind of requirement? It is absolutely not that a requirement that you cannot survive without it or cannot manage your day to day life. However most of the computer literates have made it a point to get in touch with their friends, family, acquaintances and fans through face book, still there 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 short 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 myself 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 sometimes 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. At certain times it is quite embarrassing to share unnecessary details about oneself with your Facebook friends. But this is exactly the main purpose. You feel like that sitting quiet on the face book is just nonsense, click on the likes on your friends postings if you are not 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, were  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.

A person whose wife has died and he was in total loss or grief. A close friend while consoling him asked," may I help you in any way, do you need anything?" "Yes bring me my laptop; I would like to update my status as a single."

There 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 to me, you have to decide and consider properly in which gender you are happy and satisfied.

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