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The reason why Facebook so often on the news and why should it generate so much dream; after all, isn't it simply a web page?

I guess the greatest response to this challenge is 'no, it is not only a website'. It is a space, a home, an expression of tone of voice, a space to connect and a chance to share. As a result, supporters of Facebook guard their right to its use, defending it as ardently since any heavily fortified 'Castle'. However, with equal valour, others (dwelling in different Castles) seek in order to dismantle it, or at the minimum, impose restrictions on it has the use. I realise the castle analogy may look unusual given Facebook's attitude of open communication. However I use the software here to illustrate how attitudinal walls have formulated a grand divide between those who learn how to use Facebook, those who think they understand how to use Facebook and those who don't learn how to use Facebook.

My Facebook

It has been indicated that Facebook (along with forms of social media) could very well be useful in emergency and disaster situations the way it offers the opportunity for 'real-time' updates that will be not restricted by old fashioned media regulations. However, even as I type this I can also hear the collective outcry of those who suggest social media have devastating consequences in most of these same situations, especially when 'untrained amateurs' and / or 'rubber necking' glory seekers offer false or inaccurate information. Of course there is as well the danger of being exposed to tragic circumstances involving relations before 'official notification' will be given. Worse, are the bullies who use Facebook as an approach of torture and rather more serious still, are the heartless (faceless) those that deface tribute pages.

These arguments are usually raised (particularly by parents, politicians and school administrators who you should never use or understand, Facebook), as evidence that Facebook's use should be restricted or even banished. But, isn't this a case of blaming the tool, when really, it is the wielder of the tool? After all, a simple fork (designed for eating utensil) could become a toy in the hand of the child in a sandpit, or a weapon during the hand of an assailant.

It is with this in your mind that I offer two suggestions, one to parents, politicians and school staff; and the other to team who administer Twitter.