IS FACEBOOK ALLOWING YOU TO FACE YOUR BOOK?

A friend sent me a mail few days ago to find out if all is well. I replied him that I am doing very fine. He said he decided to find out because he could not see my post on facebook for 2 days. I called him and we made a big joke out of it. But I begin to think of what this medium called FACEBOOK is turning into. Must I always talk on facebook? I have seen many friends' write-ups and pictures and I asked 'must you share this on facebook? I know some people cannot live a day without opening their facebook. Anyway, whatever facebook is turning people to, the young man who owns the platform have really done a very good job. But if one is not careful, the whole 24 hours in a day can be spent on facebook chatting with friends, flipping through pictures and profiles, watching videos and playing games. I cannot count the number of time I have received invitations from friends asking me to play games with them on facebook and I wonder whether we have access to the same number of hours in a day because I am still struggling to cope with mine.

Don’t get me wrong, social media, especially facebook, is helping us to keep contact with friends, learn and also convey our views on issues and events but we also need to take caution lest we abuse it. The fact is this- whenever you sign-in to your facebook account to do a thing, you will always find another thing to distract you. I am guilty of this sometimes. What I do these days is to keep a note of what I plan to do on my facebook and other social media platforms and the exact time I have to do them before I hit the sign-in button. This is helping me a lot to manage my time and attend to other businesses of the day.

Since FACEBOOK is one of the trending things now, I decided to do a write up on it which I titled 7 GREAT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN ON FACEBOOK which I am going to share with you friends this week. I am very sure you will learn at least one thing from the series.