Misusing of Facebook

When you open the wall on your facebook, you see a blank that says, "What's on your mind?" I write something on my wall only when I think that's good news or meaningful for my friends to read. For example, I posted two weeks ago, "Hey, I got three tickets for Marvericks' game on Friday for free from school. Does anybody wanna come with me?" Facebook is very convenient for me to ask or tell something important to my friends instead of calling them one by one. I understand that you can write anything comes in my mind if I know that my message will not hurt anybody's heart. Some people, however, intend to write something that hurt others' hearts. In other words, they use the facebook opportunity to attack somebody.

Spreading out a friend's untrue story on facebook caused the friend a huge trouble. One high shcool student in Japan wrote something about his friend on his facebook wall, "He brought a cheat sheet for the last history test." He wrote this after he fought with the friend. A day after the student posted the message on the wall, his high school teacher, who had a facebook account and was a friend of the student, who wrote the message, read this message and called the friend, who was suspected to bringing a cheat sheet for the history test, to the dean's office. The friend finally could convince both the dean and teacher that he never brought the cheat sheet, but since the guy posted false information, the friend have been called a "cheater" from his class mates. The friend, who was labeled "cheater," stopped going to school and started home schooling.

Only one short sentence caused the friend an incredible pain in his heart. The student, who wrote the message, will have to apologize to the friend until the friend says, "I forgive you."

Facebook is very useful to communicate with others, but it can also become dangerous weapon to attack others. I think facebook should become close some people's accounts, who try to attack others. And, facebook shouldn't put the message, "What's on your mind," in the blank on the wall because the message can imply to some immature people that they can write whatever they want to.