Facebook Act

As a college student the most common way to stay in touch with friends, events, pages, and what can become known as "important information"  is through the social networking website of Facebook. Although there are numerous ways to connect with the world around us, through means of media, I feel like most college students choose to stay connected through the internet and most importantly through Facebook. A means to connect with people from back home, since living on campus, Facebook is a necessity in order to talk to my best friends who are now all over the world. Since launched in 2004 Facebook has continued to grow in outrageous numbers becoming one of the largest social networking sites on the internet still to date. Facebook have become so popular and accessible not only are the tweets to college students spending most of there time chatting to friends or updating their pages, but also businesses are advising, activist groups are getting their words out, pages are being made for everything from favorite hobbies to books, and even my mother, grandparents, and most of my relatives now have a Facebook account. Although the thoughts of having your mother "creep" on your every move of your social life is terrifying to some, to me it is one of the easiest way for me to know what is going on at home and on the farm. I feel like the "Mothers on Facebook Act" is a great reminder to users, which is too often forgotten, that the internet is not a private place and once posted it's open for the world to see, so if you wouldn't want your mother to see it you shouldn't post it! After all mothers do seem to know everything, and you never know when your mother could be checking in on you, even on Facebook.