To Facebook, Or Not To Facebook.

Please disregard the fact that I used the word 'Facebook' as a verb in my blog title and continue reading my post...

I don't know anyone besides my younger cousin who is underage and on Facebook. It is probably for this reason that I don't really have an opinion on younger children being on Facebook. The only thing annoying that my cousin does is send me too many It Girl app requests that I have to deny. And, quite honestly, I would prefer to have her use Facebook rather than roam the entire internet at age ten. I am quite sure that, if she didn't have a Facebook account, there are thousands of other, more dangerous websites that she could visit instead.

I honestly didn't realize that my cousin had to lie to get her Facebook account until we talked about it in class. It has been so long since I had to worry about being "old enough" to be online that I forget that there are age restrictions on so many websites. Even so, I know that young children aren't the only ones lying on the internet. It actually bothers me more to know that older people are lying and posing as younger people online than it does to know children are lying just to get a Facebook account.

I absolutely loathe Facebook pages for dogs or other animals. I think that these pages are wastes of server space that only clutter cyberspace. Just upload photos of your pet on your own personal page, don't make it it's own page--that's ridiculous.

Other fake pages are just as ridiculous, but slightly less annoying. When people actually maintain the webpages as if they were the character and keep it witty and enjoyable, I don't mind. When there is nobody maintaining the page and it is only cluttering up the internet is when I begin to mind.

I wouldn't mind if Facebook implemented more strict rules that users must follow in order to get and keep an account. I think it would get rid of many pointless pages online and make Facebook a more enjoyable site to browse. Then, users would know that pages would always be regularly active and not fake and utterly useless. Deleting all of the clutter on Facebook might make it a more enjoyable place for everyone.

Ultimately, I think fake pages are much more of a problem than underage users.