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  Hello guys, this post I will try to gather all the topics proposed by teacher Tara in her blog "Do You Like Facebook? Let's Blog About It" in just one post. So, first of all, I want to thank teacher Tara for always bring us  supporting activities in order to improve our   ability of expressing our opinions and thus written skills at the same time. Thank you teacher!

  I'll answer the following questions along my text:Do you love or hate Facebook?Explain your reasons; What do you typically use Facebook for? ; How is Facebook different from other social media sites? ; Has Facebook changed the world? ; Will Facebook stand the test of time? So, it looks like very challenging questions to think about  in just one go, but it's worth to think about at least one time in a lifetime who's using or will use this huge,famous and growing social network nicknamed  "Face" among its  intimate users.

  The first question I consider the most important, because it refers to our affection or disaffection at first sight by social network at issue. To tell the truth I'd say I like some aspects on Facebook and disapprove other ones, this because as all social networks,  Facebook has also its  advantages and disadvantages as well. This is an inconstetable fact!

  I recommend Facebook because there you can find out a world of possibilties from enjoyment ones, like games, to professional ones in pages earmarked curriculum sending. You can develop a big network of friendships, from close friends to those from farthest places of Earth expanding your social relations. There, for example, I have friends from France, Greece and I'm able to share experiences as to the language learning with them and they with me.  I can express my feelings, emotions and opinions about the most diverse themes in just one click away. I can  build an  online carrer in music, economics, politics, sociology, language learning, e-commerce, cinema, international trade, at last, in many other activities you can imagine to do. For me, this is the good side of  social networks in general. It's a world that summarises in knowing, sharing and interacting.

  The dark side of Facebook I think it's mainly concentrated on the super-exposure  all of users are subjected all the time when they're active on there. After all, it's a logic consequence of when you accept a privacy policy which you grant image rights to take part in an online community that kind. You are subject to online robbery of your personal data too. In espionage times, you can even are subjected to life investigation! Imagine somebody looking into your online life all days, all nights for several years without you can distrust a bit. Sometimes that can  seem to be not so apparent but, in fact, happens and can come to happen anytime with you. The privacy promised by social networks is far from reality we live these days, days which almost everything of good and bad is made online. Times of virtual Big Brother these we live on the Web friends.

  I use Facebook to make friendships, listening to music and follow updates of my  favourite pages. Sometimes the chat help me out to take some doubts about a misunderstood topic with my teachers and/or friends at the period of an important college examination or work. I'm not an expert in Facebook, I just use it to do normal things, nothing of extraordinary. What I like the most is to read the English learning pages that I've liked there. There are so many interesting pages for that, containing links that leads to never before seen websites with great articles, activities and audio lessons for who's learning a second language. Simply, I enjoy to do that !   Facebook also gives me interactivity with other learning friends from all around the world through communities designed especially for making friends outside it.

  I believe the difference from Facebook to other social medias consists of Facebook is able to  collect several resources in just one place like videos, games, music, images, messages, and this is just what persons want nowadays, fastness and practicality. Facebook has a global reach, due to its immense fan comunity, its immense gathering of worlwide known companies, artists,  and services inserted on its pages. I think the fast popularity among all audiences  also helped out Facebook become one of the most important and different sites of world. The Mark Zuckerberg's wealth prove that popularity! He's one of the youngest and richest entrepeneurs in the Web world. His relationship website go for millions and millions in the stock exchange in the present days.

  For sure,  Facebook's popularity has changed the world through a particular and unexpected way so far: the netizen's union strenght. Just to exemplify we can quote the changings caused by social media websites, the Middle East country revolutions, the Brazilian riots, the rising of crosscultural exchangings between nations. Facebook as many as other social sites have contributed to facilitation of communication and personal expression in a global scale. It's like Facebook had became a platform for all kinds of human wishes or dissastisfactions. I'd risk to say it even became a parallel world to the real one we are accustomed to having. It's a place where oftentimes you can build up a opposite lifestyle of  your authentic daily.

  As everything, Facebook has your expiration date. On internet everything that isn't filled with novelty is doomed to failure. Internet is a dynamic environment by nature. So, if something doesn't show up newness any more, it will surely be surpassed by something better and more updated. While, Facebook keeps eventful it'll stand the test of time, but when it becomes eventless, something will take up his position. People always search for something more attractive than they have in the present time, and concerning social networks is not different at all.