F.A.C.E.B.O.O.K , I was never really fond of the idea of my peers going so gaga over the social networking site , some 3 years back , but you can say on  peer pressure or a necessity I had to open an account and I entered in the world of  face-book. The whole idea of facebooking got so fascinating as everything was in one place – be it games, mailing, chat, instant messaging, sharing information quickly, getting in touch with old friends. Hats off to the Face Behind Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg who launched it on 2004. Within seven years, it was reported that the company reached the 800 million-user mark. The movie “The Social network” was a hit too.

I have nothing against the site, but too much of is like an attention seeking website. People have gotten so used to it that their lives keep revolving around the facebook page these days. Status update has become a compulsion, it’s like an everyday habit, and every smallest detail about each incident has to be shared. It’s funny to hear statements like: “How would I know about it, it was not on my news feed”. Private life has gone for a mere toss. Acquaintances and hundreds of people one meets in their journey of life need not know every thing about them. The other day I had gone to my relatives, I asked my cousin who is 6 and has an account, not to use it for 1 day. And he replies “I will do anything but you are asking something which is not possible” I laughed hard that a kid who can hardly type a sentence without grammatical mistake is saying that. The same day the domestic helper at my place asked me to create her account and when I asked her why she wants it, she said everyone keeps talking about it, I feel out of place if I don’t have one. I was so surprised as she did not even know how to operate a computer.

There are so many networking sites from Twitter to Google plus, but nothing like the phobia that FB has created. There were sites namely Orkut, Hi5 but with time it all went by. But I think the hype that Facebook has it is going to stay for a long time. It has quite a boon as it can make anything popular by overnight, and people are aware about the happenings. But when it come about getting in touch with older friends you do that once and then don’t even care about talking to them except wishing them birthdays or on special occasions. The habit of mailing sounds like a cliché these days. Face-book has become more about reading about different phases of various faces.

Each one of us have our fairytale, we need not make it facebook tale!!