Facebook Addiction

By Kaylee Foote

Many teenagers and adults are using Facebook these days. It is one of the easiest ways to communicate with people online. It was launched in February 2004 to Harvard students, but in September 2006 it was made available to anyone age thirteen and up. As of July 2010 there were more than 500 million active users. So many people use Facebook that schools and workplaces have had to block it because students and workers try to get on during the day, and it interferes with their work. Entertainment Weekly once said, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"

Rosanne Poulin of Hillsborough says that Facebook is "a great way to keep in touch with people long distance and great way to get back in touch with people you have not seen in a long time like high school or college friends." While another point of view is, "Facebook is like an addiction. Drama. Keeping in contact with friends, new and old. Dating. News. They should call it Crackbook," Tanner Bourguet of Hopkinton says.

Pretty much everyone has a Facebook these days. It can be used to just chat with friends, or to do your schoolwork while getting help from other people. It is also a way that people can see updated pictures of their friends to see whether or not they have changed at all since the last time they saw them. Overall Facebook was a very good thing that was invented. Oh, and did you know? It was invented by a college student by the name of Mark Zuckerberg.