Facebook. It seems that everyone has a Facebook account these days. Young, old, mothers, grandmothers, and even elementary school kids. Facebook was one of the first social media pages, created by now world famous billionaire; Mark Zuckerberg.

I made my Facebook account back in 2008, when I noticed that my friends were sharing pictures and updating their statuses on this site. I was surprised to see more people than just my friends. I saw a lot of my elementary and middle school classmates in this jungle of gossip and photo sharing social media networking site. When I first made my Facebook account, I didn’t have a lot of friends. I received a few friends requests here and there, and also an abundance of requests to online games. I was confused, but after playing around with the site, I quickly adjusted and became used to it.

Now, (like back then) Facebook is still a site where friends vent about their problems, post photos from Friday night’s party and a place where stores pay to advertise their sales on the page. Unlike back when I first created my Facebook page back in ’08, I didn’t care about what I posted. I posted a lot of derogatory statuses and statuses that were inappropriate. As I grew older, I started to make my Facebook “more professional”. I deleted all of my past statuses, inappropriate pictures and I stopped adding fuel to the fire on other people’s statuses.  This was mainly because I didn’t know who could be looking through my profile. Anyone from my family members, church members to potential employers can be “stalking” me.

If you look through my profile now, you’ll just see a few photo albums here and there. I think twice before I post statuses now. Now that Facebook is making easier to “stalk” people, I stopped using profanity in my statuses. I also go “offline” when I don’t want to be bothered lol.

Yeah, so Facebook has sure gone a long way since it’s introduction back in 2004. It’s being used by all sorts of people from all around the world to connect with others.