Hooked on Facebook

The media giant Facebook is fast becoming a form of addiction of communication for local users, young and old.

The website, which began as a forum to contact friends, has become a daily destination for users to share pictures, news and status updates, enjoy music and games, and more.

"I am ashamed to say that probably spend several hours a day on Facebook," Michels said Holly Howell residents. "I am a housewife stay, and Facebook keeps me connected with the world."

Since joining Facebook, Michels said she has been able to reconnect with "almost all" he has known, and the relatives he has not spoken in years.

Facebook offers the family tree application that lets users track their genealogy and groups where family members can share family photos.

"I repeat again, because literally everyone I know and have known it's all here in one place," said Michels.
Games ratchet up the fun

Facebook user and owner of Aria Booksellers, Maria Elena Arias, said she uses Facebook to pass time at work instead of reading books.

"Now, I play Scrabble with my college friends, and everyone got hooked on 'Farmtown", "Aria said.

"Farmtown" and "Farmville" are games in which Facebook users of planting and harvesting to make money and build their virtual farms.

The online gambling habits of Aria become true facts of social life when she and her friends began to meet to have "Farmtown" the parties on Facebook.

Most Facebook users Argus newspapers and interviewed said that games like "Farmville", "Farmtown" or "Mafia Wars" and checked daily for Facebook - some of them several times a day.

Of 300 million active users of Facebook, more than half of them check their Facebook pages every day.

"I mostly get to talk to my friends and I do play 'Farmville' in my free time," Pinckney second Veilleux, "Rebecca said." I have signed at school, who usually can get you in trouble. "

Signature on Facebook instead of doing something more productive is a common thread among Facebook users.