You are now ranked #60 for "prettiest"

Yes, this is the title of the e-mail I received today. I just shrug them off, if your friends don't participate in the "contest" you are automatically entered in by having a facebook then you end up getting e-mails saying that you dropped 30 spots to #60. With the Internet becoming more and more an everyday part of the modern teenager's day, facebook has turned into the social networking tool that the 15+ in the population depends on.



I believe that it is the safer of the social networking sites, you have to be in high school in order to have a facebook. No elementary or middle schoolers dressed up and posing suggestively like myspace. I just think that the e-mails judging people based on looks, or "sexiness" is a little extreme.



Teenagers take these sites to heart. Just last year Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl killed herself over an online hoax on myspace. You cannot take anything you learn on a social networking site too seriously. You never know who someone really is.