THE social networking tool, or better known as the stalking device - all of us have a love-hate relationship with it. Its the ultimate site where you can find out 10% to 110% of somebody's life, depending on the personality or tech-savyness of the individual that you are stalking.

It is where you get up-to-the-minute newsfeed, and its where I check out recommended articles. One often see what the mass appeals to, by seeing how often an article was recommended. It allows you to have some common topics for conversation when you need to entertain each other face to face. So what happened online gets repeated in person, and vice versa. One can live his/her life twice, or a few times, by visiting Facebook.

Then again, it is also where you find out stuff you don't necessarily want to find out. The status updates of such people, could be likened to twitter messages by some others (or the same people), where you get minute-by-minute plays of a couple's spats (oh I'm crying now, or oh I wish I'm cutting myself.), or some people's spiteful comments of others (such as "Some people are $%^%$" and phrased so strategically you could not go wrong with a wild guess who was incriminated); or some egoistic/loaded full of inferiority-complex comments such as "Thank God for all Apples" after receiving the exam results. Not to mention that kid who got his O levels forfeited because of some pictures of his O level exam pass. Seriously, the desperation of some people to tell the whole world a particularly sensitive and should-be-kept-to-self-if-not-close-friends issue is amazing.

Its the site that is full of smiles. You see pictures with the subjects in their best smiles, poses, or sides, if not, they won't be tagged. No tagging disallows stalkers who aren't their cyber friends, to stalk successfully and completely. You would imagine that some couples are seriously lovey-dovey and you don't even know that they do quarrel and their quarrels could be spectacular. One always get a too one-sided or myopic view of the actual issues or people that were stalked. Of course, the view could be something really scandalous if said people decided that the best pictures were almost naked ones.

Its also the site, if you do not have any particular online shopping that appeals to you, or some juicy news to read, or attempting to procrastinate from work, or being somewhere where you wish you weren't, people flock to. With whatever handheld devices, one can Facebook anytime anywhere. One knows that there's a traffic jam, when a friend is stuck in a traffic jam with nothing better to do.

Don't get me wrong. I love Facebook.