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We all know Facebook as a popular free social networking website that allows us to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. According to dictionary.cambridge.org, Facebook is the name of a website where you can show information about yourself, and communicate with groups of friends. The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg created this website to get students connected with each other, and as faith will have it, the website gradually became the world’s most popular social media website with about 1.9 billion subscribers. Now, this website undoubtedly has great advantages and benefits to both business owners and all persons who just want to get connected with the rest of the world.

This book is probably the most read book in the whole world with billions of people logging in daily to read it and write on it as well. Like all other books, Facebook is also good for keeping records of our day to day activities, moods, ignorance, relationship status and perhaps our stupidity. Facebook is really a Face Book, it is a book that every one of us subscribes to for an empty page to write on. Whatever we choose to put on this book is seen by the whole world, which means other people aside you can judge or tell who you are and what you are by just reading whatever you write on your book.
Look at it this way, everyone on Facebook has been given a page to do whatever they desire, but will be held accountable to the whole world for whatever they write in their piece of the book. So what this means is that whatever you do with your page describes who you are, what you are and where you are to people who don’t even know you. It is essentially opening up your entire life to the world. It is rather sad that some parents allow their children who are not responsible enough to write about their lives to be on this book. Whatever they write or do on their piece of the book will live on even after they are no more. Sometimes people put things on Facebook that they never intended to, maybe because they were emotional, excited or carried away and these things follow them and limits their ability to go higher in life.
1.9 billion Subscribers worldwide means that they might be potential wives, husbands, business partners and even people that may be able to help us achieve a dream watching, reading and listening and just something small might tell them a lot about you that might not actually represent your personality. I joined Facebook in 2009 when I was just 17 years of age, I was young, excited, emotional and carried away. I probably didn’t think of Facebook as a book by then, so I kept bits of my life, actions and emotions on the first few paragraphs of my page which at this stage I wish I hadn’t. I wasted the first paragraph of this page which I wish no young one does. Like it or not, each and every one of us on Facebook is friend with the rest of the 1.9 billion subscribers on Facebook.

This is a technological era, and everyone including business owners, employers, landlords etc. are buying into and adopting this powerful tool. When you put out any form of application, these people go on the internet and try to find out whatever they can about who they might be working with or giving out a favour to and am sure most of us will be disqualified by our Facebook pages even though we might not be the same as what is on our page. We destroy our own future and abilities with our own words, pictures, videos and actions on Facebook and then turn around to blame others for it.


Facebook is a book and should be seen and treated as such, so whatever we put and do on our page of this book should be done under careful consideration of what the effects might be , because whatever we do or say on Facebook can and will be used against us in the future. Let us protect our children from destroying their lives with their own hands. If you can’t trust your child enough to give them your dairy to write on, then you should not trust them enough to allow them write and own a page on Facebook.

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