[Student Reporters] Facebook is OK When Used In Moderation

Hye-Sun Kim / 10th.Sunny Hills HS

Log in. Comment. Chat. These are few of the common things people do when they have Facebook. Well mostly students do.

It it is now almost a fact that many adults hardly know about it and many teenagers have and use it frequently. However not everyone is completely consumed by it.

A sophomore of Sunny Hills High School [SHHS] Shane Eum 15 is one of the students who networks with his friends through Facebook.

Facebook is an international network that allows people to interact with one another" Eum said. " You can do things on it that you can't do on the phone such as updating photos and videos."

Eum said the time he logs on to the network is an appropriate amount.

"I don't think I need more time unless I'm chatting such as instant messaging" he said. "It doesn't affect me at all in studying because I use it for only five minutes or less."

Moreover he believes that Facebook is not very popular these days.

It's not popular because we're becoming older. We have more responsibilities and less time" Eum said.

Yet SH freshman Hyejin Kim 14 enjoys spending her time on Facebook looking at photos comments and communicating with her friends.

"It's fun to know more about people" Hyejin Kim said. "There's another side to them and I can talk to that side."

Also she said she was able to get in touch with her friends in Canada whom she hardly talked to after she left Canada years ago.

"I can meet my friends that I've been separated from for about 10 years" she said. "I was really surprised."

Hyejin Kim added that she does not encounter new people she does not know because she thinks it is dangerous. Nevertheless she still uses it knowing the possible danger.

"Somebody might stalk you by looking at your information" she said. "I don't feel the danger though because I haven't actually been stalked before."

Hyejin's father J.A. Kim 48 said he does not mind his daughters having Facebook because he trusts that they would not do anything dangerous.

" I [trust] my daughters and that my children can handle it" J.A. Kim said. "I don't know what Facebook exactly is but if it is popular among students and the younger generation I'm o.k. with my daughters using it."

SH Spanish teacher James Tindukasiri 34 has signed up for Facebook and logs on to it several times but not often.

"It's not a priority" Tindukasiri said. "It's more of a novelty to me. I don't check Facebook on a daily basis. I post my pictures of my daughters on there and my wife's but it eats up a lot of time so I don't spend a whole lot of time on it."

Similar to Hyejin Kim he was able to reconnect with his childhood friends. I thought it was cool because I was able to contact friends from elementary school from when I lived in Spain" he said. Though Facebook helped him he does not believe it is entirely good. "[Facebook is] just one more thing to draw students' attention away from sports or school" Tindukasiri said. "It's just one more distraction."