Congratulatory messages and tips on how to eat healthy when breaking the fast and invitations to donate money to the poor have invaded Facebook, a mass phenomenon in Egypt that gives the current Muslim holy month of Ramadan an electronic touch.
If you want to know the Egyptian television programs during Ramadan-a month in which dozens of soap opera-premieres you ask your friends in Facebook, and moments after receiving the response.
So do many Egyptians internet every day if they want to know the exact time of "iftar, the meal which breaks the fast of Ramadan, which must be maintained from dawn to sunset.
"My friends and I always use Facebook during Ramadan to exchange greetings and ask for the television programs this month. It is a way to communicate faster than calling," he told Efe Noha Mohamed, a Muslim girl.
Both Mohammed and many of his friends use Facebook even to read the Qur'an during the prayer of "tarawih, typical of Ramadan after the" iftar ".
For Mohamed, "nothing happens if you use Facebook in a reasonable manner, without losing time to be devoted to religion in this holy month."
As for Indy Awad, a Muslim girl who is unemployed, Facebook occupies a large area of your life.
"I'm addicted to Facebook and use it to ask Ramadan and inform my friends from concerts and television programs," Awad told Efe, after hanging on this social network a part of a comedy show during Ramadan.
This year it has become fashionable in Egypt to use Facebook to invite users to donate money to the poor and prepare meals for the less fortunate.
"I've got many invitations from Facebook charity groups and NGOs to help the poor during Ramadan," said Mohammed, whose image appears with the typical profile of Ramadan lantern.
Virtual groups as "Ramadan for us" and "Ramadan charity campaign" encouraging Internet users to offer a bag of food to a poor or build a table in the street to feed the less fortunate.
And it is customary to offer food to the poorest people in tents that are mounted on the streets and especially for Ramadan in Egypt are called the rahman mawaíd or tables of mercy.
In addition, the group of Ramadan charity campaign "coordinated its activities among its members to come together and cook together for needy families.
There is no shortage of new clothes this season and give it away to those who do not take the holiday "Eid el Fitr," which will be held at the end of the fasting month. All through Facebook.
Even some experts at the University of Al Azhar, the most prestigious Muslim institution in the Arab world, encourage people to use Facebook during Ramadan, which should be a time of recollection, although whenever a useful manner.
"Not at all to urge people to boycott Facebook during Ramadan," he told Efe Abdel Moti Bayumi, cleric of the Center for Islamic Studies at Al Azhar.
"Allah has placed in each of consciousness to distinguish between useful and other harmful use (of Facebook). It is the user who can say if you use it in a way that contradicts or morals of Islam and the spirit of Ramadan" added Bauymi.
Twitter, another social network unstoppable growth, has also served the faithful Muslims and Christians to exchange congratulatory messages such as "Ramadan Karim (generous)" and "Ramadan mubarak (blessed)".
Questions about how to lose weight during this time, rich in sweets, or what the tent or marquee nicest Ramadan abound on Twitter.
Some Twitter users have moved beyond the social use of the network and have dedicated themselves to encouraging others to deepen in Islam, providing a list of websites that can help them.
Whether Facebook or Twitter, Ramadan is also lived in the virtual world.
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