Share, Like, Comment and Delete

Do you have a facebook my beautiful marvelous friend? by Edris Tiew, picture from http://www.blogjer.com

You may not know who Mark Zukerberg is, but you definitely know Facebook. Facebook users have reached 400million since 2007 all around the world.

It allows people who probably never would have met each other in person to communicate; it creates new relationships and friendships and it also makes the distance between each other become closer.

A new term comes along with the existence of Facebook, ‘microblogging’, which is posting frequent tiny updates on what you’re doing.

People are able to know everything from what a Facebook user’s gender is, to what school they attend, what politics opinions they have and all their likes and dislikes, all with a click.

Besides, people also have the chance to share a Facebook user’s life by viewing their status, photos, and also leave a comment to them.

As most of the people don’t have much awareness for not revealing too much personal information, they paid a very high price for it, including their precious life.

 With the advance of internet, people can keep their status up-to-date, and they can post or share their daily lives anytime anywhere.

But, they forgot they do have some friends who can be considered a stranger to them, as people just simply approved those ‘nobody’s’ friend request from nowhere.

A Facebook user can just simply leave a comment to another Facebook user, as long as the person didn’t privatize his/hers account.

And the users are allowed to delete their comment, and also share other people’s photos or videos.

Facebook is another platform or should say playground for those cyber bullies, as they can just attack people by leaving vicious comment or just upload people’s private photos or videos.

After these bullies found that they have created a great impact or hurt others, they can just right away delete their comments or just removed those photos or videos.

The victims will face a very embarrassing or shameful situation when their private photos or videos were being shared by everyone.

Even Facebook do have certain settings to protect the users like ‘report abuse’ but it still can’t control the speed of people sharing it.

Millions of people might have viewed, shared and even downloaded it.

There was a tragic incident happened recently, Tyler Clementi, a 18 years old student from Rutgers University in New Jersey threw himself off the George Washington bridge after being filmed having sex with another male student and streamed online.

Clementi’s roommate Dharun Ravi and another first-year student Molly Wei left a webcam in Clementi’s bedroom secretly, and were broadcast engaging in sexual activity with another man through internet.

He posted his final message in Facebook: “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.’’

Clementi’s story is not the only sad story happened, there are more similar cases.

When Facebook become one of the main communication tools today, it has its advantages and also disadvantages.

Therefore, people have to think wisely before they approve a friend request, share and post a comment.