Facebook, the new means of communication

Facebook, created by Mark Zuckerberg, on February 4^th, 2004, is a online social networking website that connects millions of people worldwide. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) Originally the site was only open to US colleges, but it has slowly expanded to Canadian Universities, High Schools, and now world wide regions. It allows people from all schools, and areas, to be like an online community. You can share photos, leave messages on their walls, have information about yourself, etc. It pretty much allows you to communicate with everyone, or anyone you allow to view your profile. It has become the new mode of communication among young adults and teenagers

What happened to the days where you actually had to leave your bedroom or house to talk to a friend? Or even using your phone to talk to them? Those days are no longer. Now with the internet, websites like Facebook are allowing people to communicate with others without leaving their computer screen. I relate this to the quote said by Rachel Qitsualik in the article “Technology and the Circumpolar Village,” on page 147 in the courseware. She says, “For the hamlet is the new iglu, and the Internet is the new land.” In my opinion Facebook is the new land, and it has replaced the old land. Instead of communicating face to face with someone, it is now mainly done behind a computer screen. Facebook and other similar sites are slowly taking the lead in new forms of communication.

The question you have to ask yourself is, “Is this new way of communicating with others an improvement? Or is it actually negatively affecting our society?”
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook)
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