a) Five clues that you are addicted to facebook is an article written by Elizabeth Cohen. It is about a mother named Cynthia who is addicted to facebook. Cynthia spends more than 20 hours a week online, half of the time for work as she has an online business and half the time for her own pleasure. The text tells us that there are no statistics yet to prove ‘facebook addictions’ however more and more people are telling their doctors that they have these so called “facebook problems” as Paula Pile refers to them, in the text. She says that facebook itself is not a problem, and that actually it is a good way of sharing your life events with your friends but when you start to loose sleep over facebook or you spend more than an hour on there a day, that is some of the factors of addiction. The text continues to discuss other factors of facebook addictions.

b) Text number one talks of how social networking is a way of grouping individuals who enjoy the same interest. This is one thing that the internet is good for, meeting new people who we can share information with and in that way connect over similar interest and ideas. Social networking also give us a chance to talk to people from all over the world. Its an opportunity to discuss new cultures or new languages. However, one must always be careful with the information one shares as there are cases of people who pretends to be someone online who they are not, in real life. We don’t exchange valuable information with strangers we meet in person, we have to trust them first, and that too goes, for the people we meet online. Text number two also believes that facebook is good for interaction with our friends. Threapist, Paula Pile says she even shares photos on her facebook of real life events, for her friends to see. The