non-fiction reading response

    In the article "Unfriending Facebook" by Veronica Majerol talks about how Facebook can affect someone and the way they live their life. People don't even call each other and can affect peoples education. In the United States there are fewer new users every year because people are worried about privacy. Some people don't join or quit because they just aren't interested in Facebook. Facebook can either go well in the united states or come crashing down because with the lack of new users it could be trouble or the new users will go up. executives of Facebook aren't worried they don't expect everyone in the U.S. to sign up and there are still many users in Asia and Latin America.
     I think that Facebook is bad.It has lack of privacy and may other problems. One example that shows Facebook has lack of privacy is Zach Petersen. He is a 19- year old sophomore who has had Facebook for four years. During that time he had just gotten a new car and posted a picture of his car, then people on campus knew about it even people he didn't even know. "Its just kind or strange knowing that everybody knew about it", he says. "A friend of a friend of a friend can see your stuff ," even if "it was intended for you and your friends". This shows that almost anyone can check your profile on Facebook and you wouldn't even know about it.
     Another reason that Facebook isn't good is that it isn't interesting and doesn't help with education either. Mary Carney , 21, a senior and food science major at Clemson University in south Carolina deleted her Facebook account two years ago because she wasn't interested in it. "It kid of just felt like a waste of my time," says Carney, "like my time could be better used o studying or doing all the other things I have to do." this shows that not everyone cares or interested in Facebook. A recent study by Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania says that Facebook activities like playing games, posting photos, and chatting is tied to poor academic performance. This also proves that Facebook cannot help in education.
     After reading this article I realized that Facebook can help in some ways of your life but can mostly damage it. I learned that not only is your privacy is not safe that it hurts your academic performance. This makes me wonder whether people know about this , if parents knew they would never allow their kids to get an account and other users would delete their account to.