Since its inception in 2004, facebook has become one of the biggest websites in the world, with almost 400 million people visiting its page every month.

Facebook has not changed our life more than the telephone or the telepgraph did more than a hundred years ago. Facebook has become part of our lives but it has not altered any of the fundamental aspects of our lives like work or leisure.

What Facebook has definitely changed is the way humans communicate with each other. Facebook offers instant communication with virtually anyone in any place of the world. It is the speed and scope of facebook that have transformed our lives because we can be in touch with people, know about them and talk to them anytime we want. Also, Facebook has changed the way we communicate because we can share our ideas in our Facebook wall, which becomes a sort of electronic agora where thoughts, feelings and political ideas are exchanged and shared.

Facebook has had a crucial role in organising many of the revolutions that have risen in many parts of the world demanding more democracy. It is clear to me that Facebook is not the cause of these revolutions but it has certainly helped articulate and organise networks of resistance. Sometimes I wonder what did people say more than a century ago when the telephone was invented. Did people see this invention as a thread to intimacy and privacy? Did people think we would lose our ability to talk to each other. Any new technological advance has its advantages and disadvantages; it's us humans who must be able to reflect upon them, their limits and their ethical and moral implications.