Facebook is a social networking webpage, which I have to admit that I have a slight addiction to it. I check my Trinity email four or five time a day, but I first check my Facebook to see you has commented on which picture or what are the latest gossip from my old high school.

After reading the article, Facebook: A campus fad becomes a campus fact, I realize that Facebook isn't a simple website where you can share pictures. Since I have started studying in college I have seen the impact of Facebook and how teachers and other authorities use it to their advantages. For example, when I got accepted to Trinity, I was immediately sent a friend request by the two representatives of the International Program Department. After a few days I accepted a group invitation of the ISO (International Student Orientation). I also met my roommates through Facebook and this helped me start the college experience.

The article let me recognized that Facebook is growing in the sense that it is not considered anymore just a site where you spend your extra time in. Because of the fact that employers check profiles to determine who they should hire. I have to admit when I read this I went to my Facebook and changed some personal information I had put a few months ago.

I believe that Facebook could go either way. It is a great tool to keep in touch with friends and family who are far away. Or to share stories, pictures, information, thoughts with other people. But it could also affect how you behave in the real world, and this social networking service can be a handicap for many people.

In the academicals sense, I think that it is a great place to start groups and promote true causes, because it is where the college students are. But Facebook also may distract students during class when they take their laptops.

If you use Facebook in a way that you will benefit yourself socially and academically, it can give you great advantages. The article that we read for Computer Skills portrays this idea very well and I suggest any college student to read it.