Face book

In my last note, I talk about social networking and how is has redefined the dictionary meaning of friendship… Although loads of social networking sites exist, face book appears to be the number one social networking site for many.

Couple of years back, “yahoo messenger” and “yahoo chat room” was the coolest thing. I remember then in secondary school, me and my boys will go to the cyber café after school and chat with as many people as our pocket would allow us.

Yahoo chat room was so cool that I never for once thought it could ever be outdone but here we are... today it’s all about " Face book”.

Face book has given millions of people around the world a common platform to come together and socialize. And with it cool and unique features, even a 5year old can operate face book account.

Without searching for old friends, they pop up in a corner of your page and you guys instantaneously reconnect- now this is one feature only face book has.
There have been a lot of friendships, hook ups, relationships amongst other stuff courtesy of face book.

These days, one does not necessarily need to print invitation cards to invite friends for an event. By simply creating an event on face book, you can invite as many friends as you like from anywhere in the world.

Although face book offers us a huge platform, many of us do very little with it.

Many are those that are unemployed and urgently need employment. If know of a job vacancy, put it up here let us know. Many are those in need of business ideas, plans and partners. If you have a business idea, share with us.

Many are those in need of somebody to cheer them. If you can inspire people, write inspirational notes for us to read. You if think you can help with any of these and more, please do.

Feel free to flaunt your talents here. Whatever you do that is worthwhile, let us know of it so that we can learn from it. Face book aside socializing can and should serve us in this regard.

With the aid of face book and other social networking sites, many people have organized protest and perpetrated inhuman crimes around the world. But I don’t suggest we do that. I’d rather we will use face book as a medium to build ourselves as young people.

About three years back, I use to someone who could not go a day without checking his face book account but today there are people who cannot go 30 minutes without checking their account; as a matter of facts some people practically live online.

Check out these amazing facts about face book.

Every 30 seconds, 50,000 people update their facebook status, more than 250,000 comments are made, the same numbers of photos are uploaded and messages sent amount to almost 70,000.

According to OnlineSchools.org:
- 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook just over the 2010-2011 New Year weekend!
- 48 percent or nearly half of 18 to 34-year-olds check Facebook when they wake up.
- 28 percent check their Facebook from bed with smart phones.
- The 18 to 24-year-old group that uses Facebook grew by 74 percent last year.
- More than 70 percent of the Facebook users are outside of the U.S.
- More than 71 percent of the U.S. Web users are on Facebook.
- More than 30 percent of the userbase is over 35 years of age.
- There are more than 500 million users on Facebook.
- That means one in every 13 people on the entire earth are on Facebook, and that means one in every 4 internet users are on Facebook.

Indeed, we cannot possibly thank God enough for Mark Zuckerberg- the creator facebook. And by the way, have you seen “The Social Network”, It’s a movie on how facebook was formed … I think you should see it.

In the interim, have fun and feel free to let me know what your experience with “Face Book” has been like.

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