I am arriving at this review six years after Facebook’s inception, but as its endured more so than Myspace and with the grandiose announcement of the Queen joining up (which no one outside the victory service club cares out, ) maybe a review is not a lost cause. Before exploring the crippling hits against Facebook, Here are the positives;

Conspicuous at face value, is enabled contact with lost friends, by searching for any given name a long-lost friendship can be rekindled. Information apropos of topical discussion is also easy to collate using hyperlinks, photo display and Hashtagging. It’s easy to extend a simple exchange into a corroborated symposium.

Facebook is also congenial for hobbyists, societies and business establishments to advertise without paying out a website premium for hosting, as well as Facebook’s innumerable subscribers acting as a latent by-product of increased exposure.

However, Facebook can be like a legitimised black hole, sucking one’s time until the entropic hindrance of responsibility leads to the being fired, arrested or in some cases killed.

Superfluous third party apps such as Q and A applications regarding clandestine friend relations or making a virtual Farm are other things that are taking up spare time that people don’t have, reinforcing the notion that there is an omission of the prefix “anti” to the term “social network”.

Surfacing also are hate groups of virtual effigy immortalising trivialities like an individual’s infidelity to switching to I-phone over the cumbersome QWERTY interface of Blackberry, like it actually matters. When these exemplars are taken seriously, the results can be distressing. Results like Cody Turner’s murder over derisive remarks made about his dead relative on Facebook.

The idiom “having one’s cake and eating it” comes to mind here; with overwrought applications allowing for procrastination or scathing remarks, Facebook really needs to reconsider what should be available.

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