If you are not in facebook, you don't exist (2)

First of all, I’d like to ask how many of you visit Facebook on daily basis?... I thought so! Nowadays it would be hard to find a person who hasn’t heard of Facebook. One in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook right now. It is equal to oxygen for millions and millions of people. It currently has 800 million members and the numbers are going up as we speak. It would be fascinating to know , what caused such kind of phenomenon.
At present I believe I could say that life has gathered into the Facebook. We can track in real time what people are doing, who they are communicating, what their marital status is and what mood they’re in. Even businesses are promoting and seeking for new potential customers- through different public games where you can win from fancy dinners to fully paid trips to Hawaii . And it has been made so simple - you only have to click like and share .
I think that Facebook is a good way to boost one’s ego. I see people posting well selected pictures of their trips and parties . Enviable status updates like „Watching the sunrise from our hotel in Bali , miss you all xoxo!“. That all makes others think that their life is just miserable and worthless. But the reality is that 76 percent of pictures uploaded to Facebook are taken when drunk, which is a very serious indicator , because a lot of people keep their profiles open to everyone whithout thinking who might see them . For example, most of the companies do background check before hiring and if your profile is open, your new boss will be able to see it and maybe decides that you are incompetent for the job.
Recent reseaches show that Facebook is very addictive. More than 50 percent of active users log on any given day. Psychologists have introduced a diagnosis called FAD (Facebook Addiction Disorder )- there are an estimated 350 million around the world, who have admitted of being addicted to Facebook. But it was only a matter of time before large numbers fell like prey to the lures of a 24/7 social network with so many wonderful things to offer -a home among friends and shared applications like games, quizzes, personality-type "tests", awards and gifts, not to mention sharing laughs and creative feedback via photos , videos and more. I know that we live in a digital age, but maybe this new fancy disorder is a bit over a notch.
All in all, I think that it’s completely normal to have an account in Facebook, but we should keep some boundaries in case we don’t want to mix up our virtual life with the real one. Sure I can communicate with my friends easily via Facebook chat , but seeing eye-to-eye is way better. And I don’t mean that instead of chatting online we should chat via videocall- no no! We shouldn’t spend our short and precious life wandering around in the dephtless expanses of the Internet because reality is so much better!