Why Facebook?

My parents were forever asking me about Facebook. "When we were your age we actually had friends you could talk face to face with!" Of course comments like that came before my dad created his own facebook page. Now he is best friends with half of my high school class. I have no doubt it is his way of keeping an eye on me in cyberspace. I will be the first to admit that Facebook has become a way of life. The actual act of calling someone on a phone is becoming a thing of the past. Where else can you have five conversations at once with no one friend within 100 miles of the other. It allows me to not only keep up with lots of people I might not ordinarily see but once or twice a year, but actually get to know them better. The key to using facebook is to not let it consume you. It cannot replace the day to day interactions we have with our friends. It requires discipline just like everything else we do on a regular schedule. It is also important that I continue to use common sense when posting something on my facebook page. I must always work under the assumption that once it appears on that page it can become public information. If I do not want the world to see something then I should not write about it on Facebook.