| − | '''Facebook''' is a social website originally used by college students but has recently been opened to all. Users can upload pictures, write blogs, chat, play games, send private and public messages, virtual gifts and add people as their friends, creating a large social network of 500 million users. There are many aspects to Facebook that can draw-in users to waste time, gossip, watch videos and many companies will restrict access to the site. There are indeed real positives to the [[website]] in the form of charity causes and conservative networking. Anybody with an account can create an unlimited amount of pages; [[religious]], business, a product, groups, artists, bands, and politics. A political candidate without a social networking site risks not being taken seriously as a contender. | + | '''Facebook''' is a social website originally started for the non-commercial benefit of college students, but then commercialized for all with advertising and promotions. Users can waste their time on it in a variety of ways: by uploading pictures (typically of themselves), by gossiping about others, and by interfering with marriages and personal relationships. |
| − | Facebook is based in Palo Alto, [[California]]. The name of the site is based on the paper facebooks that many colleges give to incoming students, faculty, and staff depicting members of the campus community. <ref> [http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/f/fa/facebook.htm Facebook] </ref> | + | Studies show that the use of Facebook is associated with poorer performance in school. Facebook use is also associated with a substantial percentage of marital problems. |
| | + | Anybody with an account can create an unlimited amount of unproductive pages; [[religious]], business, a product, groups, artists, bands, and politics. A political candidate without a social networking site risks not being taken seriously as a contender. |
| | + | Facebook is based in Palo Alto, [[California]]. The name of the site is based on the paper facebooks that many colleges give to incoming students, faculty, and staff depicting members of the campus community.<ref> [http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/f/fa/facebook.htm Facebook] </ref> |