New to Macbook 13" need of advices

I recently bought a macbook, I've been needing to charge my macbook once a day even tho the discussion board and the battery information tells me once or twice a week even once a month. Is it normal to charge it to full once a day. How should I go about charging it? Can I keep using my macbook as it's charging? While it's charging what can I do while charging? May I webcam while surf the web or will that be too harsh for the macbook? Someone tell me what can I do? How should I charge my macbook? What can I and cannot do while I'm charging my macbook?

You're kind of doing it backwards. You should be running your MacBook plugged in whenever there is power nearby, rather than running on battery and only plugging in when it is empty. While it is plugged in, there are no restrictions on what you may do.
The once a month thing you should be doing is calibrating your battery. Some reading:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1490

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