Articles By: Ruben

Facebook Effects on Relationships
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Facebook Effects on Relationships

There is no doubt that Facebook is creating a new kind of environment where things have become difficult for relationships. There are many stories where people breakup because their partner changed their relationship status to ‘single’ or due to some immoral photo or due to some unexpected communication with another person. Several aspects of the [...]

Published by on August 25, 2012 10:25 AM
How can I find Friend on Facebook? Should be your last option
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How can I find Friend on Facebook? Should be your last option

Friends are perhaps the best gift you can give yourself. However, it is certainly not easy to make friendship and find really good friends. While a number of people have started using Facebook to find friends, what you must understand is that it is not the best way to approach a person as people use [...]

Published by on June 10, 2012 4:17 PM
Facebook and School Policy
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Facebook and School Policy

The answer is for endless fun. Nothing else. Kids are well aware of numerous possibilities of cyber world and social networking. They are just trying to be smarter and earning as much fun as they can. The most popular social networking site, Facebook, has 900 million users world wide. To date, to tease, to comment, [...]

Published by on May 30, 2012 9:50 AM
Facebook and Self Esteem
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Facebook and Self Esteem

According to a recent studies there is a probable connection that Facebook addicts can be suffering from low self esteem. Around, 1,000 people were surveyed in this study by one of the Swedish universities. This was called “Sweden’s largest Facebook Study” and it evaluated the use of this social media site in terms of what [...]

Published by on May 27, 2012 9:56 PM
Facebook Generation
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Facebook Generation

Facebook Generation Resides in the Virtual World Having a Facebook account and using it extensively to interact with friends and loved ones has become the next most important thing to consuming food. Yes, that’s true! The very characteristic and features of this social networking website that enable people to interact, build relationships and share cool [...]

Published by on May 21, 2012 12:37 PM
Facebook a Business ?
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Facebook a Business ?

This is probably be one of the rare occasion where I can write more positive things about Facebook than the challenges and effects of Facebook I have been writing since I started the website. That’s because I am looking at Facebook from a business point of view. Also to wish Facebook a favorable IPO on [...]

Published by on May 15, 2012 10:09 PM
Is Facebook for Kids
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Is Facebook for Kids

People across the globe are so anxious to know their friends’ updates and read the variety of activities being posted on the site, and thus Facebook has turned out to be the biggest addiction in the world. The social networking site may have some positive facts such as connecting with friends and real time communication. [...]

Published by on May 12, 2012 10:58 PM
Facebook and Communication
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Facebook and Communication

The days of face-to-face communications seem to have gone by after Facebook changed the way people interacted. Social networking sites have handed or created innumerable ways for people to communicate with each other. Even though it is easy to use Facebook, it enables an informal, unnatural and grammatically incorrect way of communicating. Or what I call [...]

Published by on May 9, 2012 9:03 PM
Ignore Facebook
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Ignore Facebook

Number 1 social network site with over 900 million users is becoming a waste of time and more and more people are realizing this. If you are one of those people who are trying to find ways in which you are trying to ignore Facebook then here are some of the ways in which you [...]

Published by on April 30, 2012 9:36 PM
Facebook Page Refresh
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Facebook Page Refresh

Do you know that mindless page refresh or status updates on Facebook can actually make you dumb? You will only be interested in the trivial updates from your so called friends and will not have any time to keep yourselves up to date with what is happening in the world around you. Start to think [...]

Published by on April 22, 2012 2:13 PM
Minimize Facebook Time
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Minimize Facebook Time

Most of us start using Facebook because our friends are using it. We use that as the perfect reason to join Facebook in the first place. However, Facebook is becoming a marketing company which does everything possible for members to spend the maximum possible time inside Facebook. This is why you must minimize Facebook and [...]

Published by on April 16, 2012 10:01 PM
Facebook Distraction
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Facebook Distraction

If you have been spending most of your waking hours just refreshing your Facebook page in your browser in your laptop or smart phone, then you are most likely suffering from Facebook distraction. In this article we will talk about some of the ways that you can avoid Facebook distraction and start to take charge [...]

Published by on April 14, 2012 5:49 PM
Real Friends vs Facebook Friends
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Real Friends vs Facebook Friends

Today if I ask you to avoid Facebook, your immediate reaction could be two questions. 1. How would I keep in touch with friends? 2. What do I do with my free time if I don’t use Facebook? In this article, I will try to answer both these questions for you. You must understand that [...]

Published by on April 8, 2012 10:25 PM
Facebook Activity or Outdoor Activity
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Facebook Activity or Outdoor Activity

One of the main disadvantages of being overly active in social networking sites such as Facebook is that you tend to be quite laidback and will soon have a lot of problems associated with being a Facebook addict. Research has proven that your body has not been designed to sit idle in one place for [...]

Published by on April 4, 2012 7:26 AM
Log Off Facebook and Stay Fit
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Log Off Facebook and Stay Fit

There are several ways in which you can spend your time in a more interesting manner than by spending it just updating your status messages and checking for status updates from friends and acquaintances in Facebook. You need to avoid Facebook if you want to have a healthy life. Staying fit is one of the [...]

Published by on March 18, 2012 5:02 PM
Facebook Offline
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Facebook Offline

Today most youngsters lead a very sedate life and as a result lifestyle complications such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes make an appearance even in teenagers. You are actually doing yourselves a disservice by spending the majority of your walking hours cooped up in front of your computer and checking out status [...]

Published by on March 15, 2012 7:49 PM
Facebook Backgrounds or Nature
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Facebook Backgrounds or Nature

Are you among one of those compulsive Facebook users who refresh your page every few minutes looking for status updates? Do you measure your popularity by the number of Facebook friends that you have and the number of likes that your messages get? Probably, you are becoming an addict of Facebook and it is high [...]

Published by on February 20, 2012 12:13 AM
Father Reacts to Facebook Post
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Father Reacts to Facebook Post

We can understand Dad’s frustration. We know all about the pain parents go through and we are constantly trying to find a solution for Facebook concerns, addiction and issues. But the Youtube video below is what we are trying to “Avoid”. Hopefully more parents will get together and try to find a solution. I sincerely [...]

Published by on February 12, 2012 9:33 PM
Facebook Fitness! Still a Dream
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Facebook Fitness! Still a Dream

Do you know the latest mantra of being cool? The latest mantra is “Get Fit, Be Cool’, and guess who’s advocating this mantra? Well, right from top notch celebrities like Justin Timberlake to Jennifer Aniston, to Jesse Eisenberg and many more have officially boycotted Facebook. Facebook’s over intrusive timeline and “News Feed” feature has created [...]

Published by on February 2, 2012 8:53 PM
Facebook and Weight Gain
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Facebook and Weight Gain

It may sound funny, for some of us obesity could be directly related to the amount of time one spends on Facebook. As per a recent report on obesity in the US, around two thirds of the adult population and as many as one third of all kids are obese. You may ask what has [...]

Published by on January 29, 2012 4:25 PM
Facebook Addiction
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Facebook Addiction

Are you one of those users who have Facebook as your home page and have configured your mobile phones and IPads to access Facebook at the click of a button? Do you spend more than 60% of your online time checking out Facebook notifications, videos and photos? If so, be careful. You may be unconsciously [...]

Published by on January 23, 2012 9:41 PM
SOPA and PIPA is Not What We Want
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SOPA and PIPA is Not What We Want

Like many website around the world we are observing to keep the internet free from proposed US anti piracy acts. I encourage everyone to leave a comment so the the US congress hears it loud and clear.

Published by on January 18, 2012 1:04 PM
Get Fit…Be Cool…
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Get Fit…Be Cool…

I know I have been writing the negatives of Facebook since I started the blog. But I wanted to do more and reach out to those who really didn’t care about the negatives even though there were millions of Facebook users knowingly or not knowingly were affected. This was the fundamental reason why I created [...]

Published by on January 1, 2012 6:18 AM
Facebook Wishes ?
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Facebook Wishes ?

Have you ever considered how many of your loved ones – close friends and family members are on Facebook? Most likely, you will notice that the older generation is completely not there in Facebook – they avoid Facebook  just like they avoid a lot of other new generation applications. And even close friends would love [...]

Published by on December 29, 2011 10:19 PM
Facebook a Search Engine?
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Facebook a Search Engine?

We never heard of Facebook being a “Search Engine”. Today I can confirm that Facebook has the capability to index websites. At least they have been indexing our website all of this month. So here is the numbers we have been able to gather for December 2011. (Dec 16, 7:06 a.m.) “Facebook Robot” has been [...]

Published by on December 16, 2011 7:06 AM
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