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Facebook

Facebook has become a phenomenon for the social networking set, and what makes that so amazing is that Facebook did not even exist until 2004. Harvard student created it to allow other students to network and meet each other, and it has caught on with young people around the globe. It allows people who probably never would have met each other in person to communicate, it creates new relationships and friendships, and it places distance between people who could communicate in person, but instead choose to communicate online. It is just another element of society that is interested in sharing information with the intimacy of a close, personal relationship.
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(Jimenez 344). In my opinion, we should never talk about whole society, but we should rather look at individuals. There are all kinds of people, and Facebook is a kind of a "fantasy land" where some individuals can make up anything they want to command attention, they can live an alternative life if they choose so, and no one is the wiser.
Experts estimate that many people spend at least fifty percent of their waking time online. For many, a large part of this time is spent in social networking. People give up a huge parts of their privacy when they post their feelings, interests, and ideas online, and society seems to be becoming much more open to this lack of privacy. This seems to say that our society is much more open now, and much more open to posting intimate information online, but it also is rather anonymous in a way, because users never see, meet, or touch the person they communicate with.
Important part of some of today’s relationships is people’s relationship status on ...

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Added: 3/29/2011 08:39:01 PM
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