Is Facebook The New "Drug"?

So, I had to write this for Creative writing. It's just a draft

Is Facebook The New “Drug”?

Are we as people addicted to Facebook, or will it just fade like another trend?

 

Do you ever wonder how many people are on Facebook? Maybe you don’t wonder about it, or maybe you’ve only thought about it once or twice. How many people actually thrive on Facebook for their everyday life? How many are on for the applications (Sims, City-Ville, Farmville, etc. You know them if you play them), and how many people are on for their friends?

 

All these thoughts may cross your mind once, and then you think “oh, I don’t care.” and continue on with your daily life like it was never even there. But how addicted to Facebook are YOU? How long do you spend on there every day? Studies show from digitalbuzzblog.com that Facebook is used by 1 in every 13 people on earth. Pretty insane, don’t you think? Facebook has to be one of the most popular interactive chatting sites on the internet, and we know it just gets worse day by day.

 

Did you know that 57% of people talk to people more online than they do in real life? What does that say about society? Are we falling prey to this internet drug?  The average Facebook user has about 130 friends, but soon enough that too will expand. 48% of all 18-34 year olds check Facebook when they first wake up; 28% of those doing it in bed. 200 million people access Facebook via mobile phone (Facebook Mobile).  And the application rate is insane as well; seeing as most of them are for the phone.

 

The top rated application as of now is City-Ville having just about 105,490 people join it per day; not weeks, days. Nearly 20 million applications are installed per day; and over 250 million people will interact with Facebook from outside the official website on a monthly basis.

 

So, what is your opinion? Are we as people addicted, or not? People get on for friends, for family, for games, and for entertainment. Whether or not it’s a drug, well, that’s up to you.

Author's Note

Take mind. This is just a rough draft. . . Critique?

Reviews

[:DI laugh too much:D]

This is really great for a rough draft, and I love the topic. Facebook is like a drug and it's not fading anytime soon, which means it'll just get more and more annoying lol. I also liked how you used the technique of asking questions, it really makes the reader think about the piece.

awesome job!

[OliviaTheElf]

The closing paragraph, I don't know if she will want it to be longer, but over all it's really good. :)

[OliviaTheElf]

1. It's only 1 giant paragrpah
2. I got confused when we were switching to another subject because there weren't any paragraph indentions
3. My tummy's growling >.<
4. I didn't count but there has to be 5 sentances per paragraph.
5. 1-intro (1) 2-Body (3) 3-Closing (1)

[Skin]

Facebook is one of the many 'Weapons of mass distraction' on the
Inter - - -NET
Net as in trap

Did you know that 50% of statistics are made up?
And 73% of those statistics are less than 30% fact
According to a poll by people who instigate polls 15% of 39% of the population of Narnia and Wonderland believe that Facebook is the work of Satan?