by Karan Kanwar

Created on: August 19, 2011

Facebook is a social networking utility created in 2004 by Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg. Today, Facebook has around 700,000,000 (seven hundred million) members, and is the biggest social network in today's world. Facebook has become increasingly popular in today's world, and no other site has lived up to Facebook's expectations, because of this - Facebook and Twitter are the only two means of social networking which probably more than five of your friends use, with no friends on a social network, what's the point?

In my opinion, there is no such thing as Facebook addiction, the only reason that Facebook addiction seems to be a worry, is because the activity is done over an inanimate object, a computer. People who suggest Facebook addiction, fail to understand that Facebook is an extremely popular medium for communicating with your friends, in real life, the words used by Facebook are also all real, and normal. You don't have followers, or anything weird like that, you have friends. Twitter could be an addiction, because of it's farfetched idea of connection, but Facebook associates you, directly to your friends, friends aren't an addiction - if you can continue conversations you had on Facebook with your friends, in real life - Facebook is a slightly virtualized reality, and reality isn't an addiction.

Well, that's just my opinion, back to talking about Facebook addiction through the way it's shown to be devastating! Facebook can get you addicted, because it's a utility that connects you to your friends, and because you like your friends, when you're away from them, Facebook is your one of your only hopes of some quality communication. By using Facebook too much, your parents or friends may tell you that you are addicted to Facebook, or the Internet, which isn't true, you cannot get addicted to Facebook, it isn't fair to say that you can be addicted to Facebook. An addiction to Facebook, could be comparable to sitting next to your friend, all the time - but being separated by a brick wall with a window, so you can see and hear each other, all the time, but you're never actually together. I apologize if this was not the article you may have been looking for, but I have to stress the point, Facebook addiction, does not exist, the Internet-social era is being connected all the time, while not being physically present in one another's life.

Well, I hope I've conveyed my message about how Facebook addctikn, isn't really an addiction. Facebook is a medium to communicate with your friends via an inanimate object, which to most people who don't understand the uses of Facebook, appears to be addiction!

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