Does Facebook Pose a Risk To You?

Unless you have been under a rock for the past several years, you probably have a profile on Facebook. You have also probably found that your aunt, grandmother, or third-grade teacher has a profile as well and wants to be your friend. Facebook is an incredibly convenient social media website, and you have even more opportunities to use it if you have one of the many Facebook iPhone applications available to you. This offers you the convenience of updating your profile on the go, where ever you are at.

Right now, there are 300 million users on Facebook, and that includes people from all walks of life. There are a few risks posed to you on Facebook, and one of them is who you accept as your friends. If you have accepted friends from work or even your boss, then you may slip up and write an update about how you hate your job and your boss, only to find out that you are in trouble at work the next day. Oops! On that note, it's also important to protect your privacy, with no-brainer information like your address or credit card number, to keep yourself safe on your profile.

by Krista

Is Facebook an Addiction?

Do I have a serious problem if I am constantly checking Facebook on my iPhone throughout the day at work? Meaning, that I go into the bathroom and take little breaks to say what's up to all of my friends and see what they are up to for the day? Facebook is both a blessing and a curse because at first, I was thinking how silly it is to always update your friends that you are going to the grocery store or watching a movie, etc. Really, do people care? The answer, of course, is yes, because now I am obsessively checking Facebook to see exactly what people are doing at different times throughout the day.

The other issue is the convenience of the iPhone, which makes me able to cyber stalk people, in all technicality. No, this does not mean that I want to kill my friends or steal their identities, but I do constantly check what they are doing to see why they haven't responded to me in a timely fashion. This is definitely far from the olden days when you had one phone in your home, with or without an answering machine, but now there is no excuse because we have Facebook!

by Elaina

Twittering Kills Someone?

There is absolutely nothing funny about a teenage girl dying, but the interesting headline that I saw on my iPhone while I was Googling at work was that she was killed by Twittering. This is probably something that Twitter does not want to hear to soil their reputation, but the incident actually went down because she was using her laptop in a bathtub. I think that this is one of those things that they teach you not to do in school, with electrical safety and all, but that was her demise.

Apparently, she had been on Twitter for a long time, and her battery for her laptop started to die. She ended up trying to plug it in with wet hands, and then she dropped the laptop in the bathtub so that she was electrocuted. Yes, all of the social media sites like Twitter and Facebook can be totally addicting, but let's keep them out of dangerous places please! This is just one of the strange stories that will probably become an urban legend relating to social media sites, but it helps to exercise a bit of caution as to when and where you are using your laptop. Let this be a lesson to everyone!

by Annie