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Noticed the new teenage hell? A new trend has arrived in the world of teenage angst. Facebook. As many are busily trafficking this new internet phenomenon, at the same moment, account holders everywhere are consumed by Facebook's addicting lure. In Facebook you upload pictures and write blogs and messages and innocently meet and greet new friends. Hidden to unsuspecting viewers of this site is the work that goes into a simple profile. Teenagers, a common user of Facebook, almost always "fix up" the pictures they load onto their account and take careful consideration on which to post. There is a constant need to update and to check on what others have to say. This leisure site has consumed teenagers everywhere and has taken over their lives. As a result, teenagers are getting more and more "fake" as they continue to upload "posing" and "fixed up" pictures of themselves. This is the catalyst to society's self obsessed age. Therefore, as teenagers are pressured by society into looking and acting a certain way, many are incessantly fueled and possessed by Facebook as they attempt to maintain a carefully crafted image of themselves, not realizing that their lives are being consumed as they satisfy the hunger of this image-obsessed age.

Teenagers are consumed by the addiction to maintain their images on Facebook and are allowing their habits to take over their lives. "More than 7.5 million kids are registered users, and two-thirds of them return to the site every single day." Facebook is an addiction where updating and reporting events in precise detail is necessary to a profile's survival. Users of this "friend site" have become so possessed by the activity that updating their profile has mutated from a leisure activity to a habit. It is the constant need to maintain and improve one's image that compels such dedication and effort.
Personally, I do not have a Facebook account. I feel that it is a very unproductive use of time, especially in grade 12. Although I've had accounts in Friendster, Hi5, AsianAvenue and MSN Space, reflecting back, I realize all the time I wasted uploading pictures, writing and reading long blogs, and posting and reading messages. I was lifeless, obsessed, and consumed by the wonder of online activity. When looking around at the people I know, I can't believe how much internet and "friend" sites have pushed its way into our lives, slowly eliminating needs for essential interpersonal skills. Facebook and similar sites are threatening youth

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