THE ADDICTING NATURE OF FACEBOOK
How much time spent on Facebook is too much?
I was one of the many people Charlie Rosenbury, the student profiled for a story in the Columbia Missourian (link below), asked to be a friend on the Facebook last spring. I agreed after reading his profile and seeing he was just doing it as an experiment, which I thought was pretty cool.
The Facebook has definitely caught the interest and curiosity of many people my age. We were talking about Facebook tonight at dinner because one of my friends, Lorenzo, is a "Facebook celebrity." One guy came up to him on the way to Plaza 900 because he recognized him from Facebook. Later into the conversation, one of the girls added that she has spent three hours at a time on Facebook, just looking at people's profiles and groups. She also spent that time updating her own profile with a quote a day over the summer. Some people's profiles are expansive, reading more like a dissertation than a simple profile for an online network of college students. I know my own profile tends to lead towards the dissertation side, with several quotes and a couple longer paragraphs in the "About Me" section.
The Facebook can definitely be an addictive thing for any college student. I know it is for me, anyway.
Story Link: http://www.digmo.org/news/story.php?ID=15712
How much time spent on Facebook is too much?
I was one of the many people Charlie Rosenbury, the student profiled for a story in the Columbia Missourian (link below), asked to be a friend on the Facebook last spring. I agreed after reading his profile and seeing he was just doing it as an experiment, which I thought was pretty cool.
The Facebook has definitely caught the interest and curiosity of many people my age. We were talking about Facebook tonight at dinner because one of my friends, Lorenzo, is a "Facebook celebrity." One guy came up to him on the way to Plaza 900 because he recognized him from Facebook. Later into the conversation, one of the girls added that she has spent three hours at a time on Facebook, just looking at people's profiles and groups. She also spent that time updating her own profile with a quote a day over the summer. Some people's profiles are expansive, reading more like a dissertation than a simple profile for an online network of college students. I know my own profile tends to lead towards the dissertation side, with several quotes and a couple longer paragraphs in the "About Me" section.
The Facebook can definitely be an addictive thing for any college student. I know it is for me, anyway.
Story Link: http://www.digmo.org/news/story.php?ID=15712
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