Facebook Perspectives

     Facebook is now the most visited website on the net. When I was in middle school, the most popular internet activity was AOL's Instant Messenger. In high school, MySpace emerged and everyone abandoned IM and moved onto MySpace. I was slow to change over, but eventually my friends sat me down and I joined the MySpace phenomenon. I did not become instantly hooked on MySpace. I felt that it took too much time to sit there, on our dial-up internet, and try to design my homepage. Once I found most of my friends, however, I found myself become attached to it. However, in the last couple of years of high school, Facebook began to allow other members, where as before, it had been a site strictly for college students. Again, I was slow to make the switch. I thought that no one would leave MySpace for Facebook, so I paid no attention to it. Finally, during the second half of my senior year in high school, I joined the world of Facebook. I do not believe that I have logged into MySpace since.
     Most of everyone I know uses Facebook. Even my Mom is on Facebook. A lot of people are now on Twitter, but as usual, I have not joined the "tweeting" world just yet. I do not stay on Facebook all of the time, but I do use it pretty much everyday. It is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family members, as well as keep up to date with what is going on. The only downside to Facebook is that there is no way to keep certain people from finding you. Sometimes, there are reasons for not keeping in touch with people!
     I think one of my favorite parts about Facebook is the different pages and groups that you can "Like". It adds personality to your profile and connects you with people that you share common interests with. A few months ago, I was searching on Google for a certain type of desk chair. These chairs are commonly used in college dorm rooms and are provided by the college. When I lived on campus at North Georgia College and State University, i had one of these chairs, and I fell in love with it. It was not that they were extremely comfortable of stylish, but they were made so that they lean backwards. As a person who always rocks backwards in my chair, this was an ingenious invention in my eyes. After i moved out, I missed my chair. I was searching for the chairs online to buy one, but I did not know what they were called. As I was scrolling through the links brought up on Google, I noticed a Facebook page talking about these Rocking Desk Chairs.
Thanks to this page, I found the chairs I was looking for! I was so excited that I was not the only person who had fallen in love with these chairs, because it seemed to me to be a strange obsession. This experience made me appreciate the variety of information that can be found on Facebook!