Palapye.com News Blog

source: BOPA
13 May, 2008

PORT ELIZABETH - It is one of the technological delights of the 21st Century. Almost everyone, from learning institutions to workplaces with the abundance of computers and internet connectivity, seems to have caught the fever.

Being on Facebook and the omnipotence to communicate with friends in another part of the world seem to have enchanted the young generation. They call this communication chatting with friends.

The world is just at your fingertips. Just a touch of the button and I am able to chat with my friends in any part of the world. I have a network of friends that I communicate with overseas and other parts of Africa, quipped Oakantse Nthapo, a student at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University who did not want to be identified.

An economics student who did not want to be identified says he logs onto Facebook almost everyday and the network of friends keeps on growing.

Through this network of friends he is able to know what is happening in another country or region. Incidentally, he says one of his friends met her girlfriend on Facebook.

Early this year, Facebook was reported to have 59 million active users, while [continue reading]