Facebook

I have been enjoying Facebook for the past 2 years communicating with old friends, some in different cities, different countries, even different planets (... that's another story), because it allowed me to find some people who i really got along well with in my childhood years, that i liked and it's always good to at least hear from them. Facebook allowed me to do all of that within that one place because of it's popularity. Just as the opposite when people who you did not want to ever get in touch with, ask you for a friend request. That in itself is another other story. I was able to network within the network and i have found contracts that allowed me to make some money, try some new things, meet new people in my fields and learn. But I'm also aware that Facebook has become an addiction for a more and more reclusive world. It has created junkies that are in need of human interaction. I speak of myself in this matter. Facebook allows us to do that in a safe, lazy and hidden environment. Where you can peep into each other's life. Where we can create a fantasy persona or a more restricted persona but most of the time hiding things that you don't want the general public to know. Like a friend put it ''would you stand in front of a crowd of 200 people and yell any personal information to a bunch of strangers?'' Euh!! No! ... I'm also aware that not everybody is there for the same reasons. Some use it for business. Some use it to network or just to keep in touch with ''real'' friends and family. Other use it to commit crime. I personally knew a friend's mother who was scammed into sending money to help the daughter that was stranded in some country. The lady sent the money to where she was instructed and she never saw the money, until the daughter called a few days later. The daughter was putting personal information on her Facebook profile, such as when she will be leaving, where she's going, when she will be coming back, what she will be doing. That is why it's so important not to put any personal information on the internet like that. Specially things that everybody can know, see and use against you. So I try to put only what i judge I would share with a well meant stranger that I meet on the street. That I can talk to about myself on a friendly manner. I feel that it's my responsibility to protect myself and my information.