How FaceBook is taking over our lives

Facebook is taking our lives because…

Facebook held no appeal for Petr Lichtenstein. The New Paltz, N.Y., resident had checked out so-called social networking sites before , and he was’nt impressed. (“MySpace,” he recalls, “was ridiculous.”) A chiropractor and acupuncturist, Lichententstein was already a member of a few professianal web-based user groups. The last thing he needed was another message box to check. Then a buddy of hisposted a link to photos from a trip to Thailand and India on his Facebook page and flatly refused to distribute them any other way. The friend of hisassumpition it: Duh-everyone’s on Facebook!

And so Lichtenstien,  57 , recently became an offical member of facebook army , 175 , million strong and, Facebook says, growing astounding rate of five million users a week! making it a rare bright spot in a dismal economy. If Facebook were a country, it would be nearly as popular as Brazil’s! It even edges out the U.S. television audience for the Super Bowl XLIII , which drew a record-setting 152 million eyeballs.

But these days the folks fervently updating their Facebook pages are’nt just tech-savvy kids: The college and post-college crowd the site originally aimed to serve ( 18- to 24- years old.)