Facebook - The World's Largest Social Net*cough*stalk*cough*ing Site

Facebook, www.facebook.com, Launched 4th February 2004, and to date, is not even 10 years old. Yet it is now known as the world's largest social networking site already, having above 400 million user accounts and more than a billion monthly visits, and it's still increasing. Today, it is number 2 in the Global Page ranking... only succeeded by... I dunno what... but most probably google.com

Facebook is one of those things that exploded nationwide like a bomb. After people started using it, they just found it so useful, fun, and addictive, leading it to being the top Networking site today.

I, however, really wonder how they still manage to keep it free, having to maintain... ... tera... no, zetta.... maybe tera-zettabytes of information, random chatter, applications, wall posts, relationships, likes, comments, stupid comments, arguing comments, dislike comments, SS-self pics, loads of photos, and today, even HD videos. I'm guessing their information storage warehouse must really look like.... .... a warehouse... of computers...

Being a facebook user myself I too find it useful in knowing about what's happening to people around me like who fell in the toilet bowl; who lost their baggage; who's a playboy; who dumped who... and if you wanna know more... you could just drop a friendly comment in the comment box below.


Facebook however... also serves as The World's Largest Social Stalking Site.

Okay, I admit. I stalk.

Some people are just too interesting that you stalk them. While some others make you wanna know so much more about them that you keep going back to their profile to find out more about them.

Sometimes, in fact I can stalk someone so obsessively.... that their link appears in my firebox browser drop down list~!!!

Who doesn't nowadays? See the 2nd Facebook link? With the blurred out name? 

The link was actually even higher up, 2nd from the Facebook home page link. And then I realised that was BAD... way bad...

So I found alternative methods to stalk without leaving an obvious 'stalk-print' behind. And I worked hard trying not to click it and it slowly settled to the lower bottom ^^ JUST in case one day my 'victim' somehow used my laptop for something, I just wouldn't want him/her to see his/her facebook profile link in my drop down list when all they wanted to do was look for www.hotmail.com, would I?

Sometimes I can spend hours at once, just looking through someone's pictures or related stuff. You could click links after links after links of someone's friend or photo or wall, and find yourself in a totally foreign area... and then realise: "Shyt! It's 12am!"

But then, facebook isn't all bad. I personally use Facebook as an online archive for my photos.

 

And at other times... facebook can be such an interesting place.

So I was browsing facebook one day.... and I came across THIS!

GOSH.... I seriously didn't want to ruin a child's life by helping in the deed of giving him the name "Megatron" but then again it would seem amusingly interesting if it really happened =)

In the end, I became a fan ~.~

I wondered what else Facebook had in store. So I typed into the searchbox my favourite First Person Shooter game: COD... and it came up with this:

 

I wonder what these people are thinking... Hahaha

And then came the Parents issue... where the more "In" parents would create an account on facebook and keep themselves up to date. Man... Parents sure are scary, and so are teachers....

Like, when you get engaged without telling your mom...

or.....

when a mom decides that dating her kid isn't such a bad idea 0.0

or if you're really really bored.... you could just play with someone's 'status'es

and screw up someone else's

They sure screwed his status up good lol.

I guess that's all for Facebook - The World's Largest Social Stalking Site

p/s: Introducing Lamebook, an archive of all the funniest and lamest facebook stuff compiled =)