Facebook is a social networking website launched in 2004 that allows users to create personal profiles, add friends, message each other, and join interest groups. Users can share photos, interests, contact info and communicate via messages, chat, and by liking pages. The site has grown rapidly since its founding and now has hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

1. Facebook is a social networking
service and website launched in February
2004.
Users must register before using the
site, after which they may create a personal
profile, add other users as friends, and
exchange messages, including automatic
notifications when they update their profile.

2.  Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal
interests, contact information, and other personal
information. Users can communicate with friends and
other users through private or public messages and a
chat feature. They can also create and join interest
groups and "like pages“.

3.  Allows user search for new and old friends
 Accessible to chosen universities having a high level of
security
 Makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers
or people you are not familiar with
 Love attraction - can be used as a dating service system
 Makes it easier to join groups having similar likes and
dislikes
 Allows members to check students who are taking the
same class, living within the same area, or coming from the
same academy

4.  Overcrowding
 Weakening long distance relationship
 Unsupported by physical adjacency
 Contributes wide-range procrastination
 Rampant addiction
 Stalking is possible
 Acquaintances be labeled as friends

5.  Spend hours in front of a computer has become a habit, like walking down the street with
headphones MP3 player or drive a car while talking on a cellphone through technology
"Bluetooth". Its peak of expression in that "generation technology or high
tech", composed by guys who can not stop the Internet, MP3 or mobile side, or even at
school.
 The danger of this behavior-beyond the negative aspects that bring ostracism and neglect
of life on this group to spend locked in a room and inactive, lies in its potential to cause
irreversible eye damage and hearing.
 Sedentary lifestyle and lack of sleep
 While the main consequence suffering-both adults and children, related to abuse of the
computer, is the weight gain is directly related to a sedentary lifestyle, there are other
complications such as sleep deprivation, a situation that causes the next day
tiredness, bad temper and unwillingness to take center stage.
 In fact, a study led by Dr. Jodi Mindell of the Sleep Center at Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia in the United States (USA) established that between 20 and 25 percent of
young people has some kind of disorder related with sleep.
 That's why, in general, experts suggest avoiding the boys have in their rooms with
distractions like the computer, play station or other devices.

6.  Many children are at risk from this phenomenon, as some
criminals use this medium to reach your victim.
 Lack of privacy that Facebook offers us, because having so
many users can not handle the situation. Although this
issue has been controlled to some extent still pending
arrangements.
 Facebook is growing and, thus, becomes an uncontrollable
phenomenon and its consequences could be transformed
into a big problem.
 There are numerous campaign groups that affect the ideal
of users, which can create decisions and thoughts that were
not foreseen

7. Popularity from 2003 up to 2011