Are mothers the biggest keyboard warriors? A recent Facebook incident has me thinking that they just might be. There’s no denying that a child’s number one ally is their mother, and in this crazy world we certainly need someone to stand by us through everything, but getting involved in Facebook fights? For me, that’s not [...]
“Guess what, guys?” one of my friends said last week as they made their way into the circle of our group. “We’re married!” he said with a laugh, grabbing the hand of one of my other friends and raising it in the air with a grin. “Why weren’t we invited to the wedding?” I wanted [...]
“Okay, I admit it. I am truly addicted to Facebook,” said teenage blogger Heidi Barry-Rodriquez in 2007. In 2009, teen Neeka Salmasi described the social networking giant as being “like an addiction”. This year, a casino site mentioned that “Facebook provides the atmosphere where it is tough to walk away” in a direct comparison to [...]
Everything in the world has good and bad aspects, and that can definitely be said as true for the phenomenon that is Facebook. So now to the real question: is Facebook a valuable communication platform beneficial to all its users, or merely a time waster that has caused more headaches than happiness?
Friend: it’s a term flung around loosely in this day and age, especially among teenagers. It is used to desccribe the people on Facebook, even though some of them we don’t even talk to in real life. Are we using this word too flippantly?
It’s one of the reasons why the social networking craze has reached mega proportions, modern teenagers would be lost without it and it is arguably the most beloved pastime of today’s youth. It, my friends, is online stalking.
Social networking has taken over the world in a way that nobody could have possibly predicted, but if the majority of teenagers resort to talking about talking, even if it is online communication, something’s gone seriously wrong. Is this really what the world has come to?
In a society that is driven by gadgets, money and social networking sites, it is no wonder that Facebook has become a part of everyday life. But using these sites to date over the internet? Is that really what the world has come to?
Today, it seems that Facebook’s pace of growth is inextricably tied to the growth of technology as a whole. The social networking site has over 500 million active users and it’s demographics are expanding not only within the teenage set, but with children, parents, grandparents and even great grandparents who are choosing to communicate via [...]
The biggest concern for parents used to be the strange, old man hanging around outside the ice-creamery. Now, with instant access to stranger worldwide, stranger danger has taken on a whole new meaning.
