Five Things I Love About Facebook

It's so funny that Facebook had somehow been

the THING in my life for these few months.

I created a Facebook-style prayer board in church

CYD now has a Facebook account

My brother has a Facebook account

Now my sister has a Facebook account

Even EALD listening test talks about FACEBOOK!!!

I wonder when's my dad gonna sign up for Facebook...

Beware ye folks in SABS...
Discipline teacher stalking you all...wakakaka

I facebook practically every day, at least once.

I'm totally not surprised that

it's currently the third most visited site in the world

just after two major search engines Google and Yahoo!

Despite that video of 25 Things I Hate About Facebook

I guess many people still love Facebook

So here's my list of

Five Things I Love About Facebook

[1] I like the 'Like' button.

It makes people happy but need you not to comment, or when there's just simply no words better to describe. Simply 'Like' it! I'm glad there's no 'hate' button. Samuel once complained that people 'like' even their not so likable moments such as 'fell down into the drain', but it's just a teaser. No one would 'like' if the status update is 'My son is kidnapped'.

[2] The Live Stream aka Twitter-like feature.

When it came out, many people hated it. Now most of us find it fun and you get to know what your friends are doing without the need to go their forever un-updated blogs. Then there are those funny comments, interesting quotes and quizzes. For people like me who don't read news and a total Youtube noob, it's my source of knowing interesting things. People share knowledge there. Very often it serves as refreshment of the soul after information fatigue syndrome with many people posting complaints about studies. It's a better form of taking a break than KitKat, plus it's free!

[3] The Photo Tags and Comments

There are a lot of interesting photos on Facebook like my Standard Six class photo which I don't have and cute pictures of people when they're 'young' as profile pictures. And it's way easier to upload compared to blogger. Photos nowadays are way much more interactive in Facebook, most notably the most controversial photo of the year of comparing the similarities of Ginger and Siow Fern with 70 and counting comments. It might be irritating for some, but just untag yourself.

[4] The Birthday Reminders and other reminders

Now I have better 'memory' on people's birthday and gifts and greetings are free! Plus you get to know the birthdays of those friends you had a heart chat before but never got to know their birthdays until Facebook appears. Facebook does spam the inbox a lot, but at least each of those spam are at least some comments on your status updates not some spam selling viagra or trying to install viruses. For me, I don't mine cleaning up the Facebook mails. And yeah, I'm an attention deficit guy who welcomes any form of attention... Facebook cured me of ADD=p

[5] Of course, you get to connect with friends!

This is arguably the best reason why I ever go Facebook. Gone are the days when you hear about your friends in like two, three or ten years and know nothing how they spend their lives in overseas. Yeah, people argue that with Facebook there's less real life interaction, but many people simply use it as a means to enhance their real life relationships. One saves time to go over the unimportant "keeping up to date" details in their reunions and can discuss more meaningful stuff. You get to know big events in their life and can congratulate or offer condolences at real times rather than a belated one which has less impact.

So, Facebook is not that bad after all. It might be addictive, it might pry on your privacy, but it all really depends on how you use it for the good of others and yourself.