Sunday, April 1, 2012

Facebook

What is so special about Facebook? Everyone includes children, teenagers, adults and also the old citizen like to talk about facebook in their daily life. Today let me list out the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook. First of all, let us explore what is Facebook.
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc. As of February 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million active users included me. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users also may join common-interest groups organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristic and categorize their friends into lists such as "People from work " or "Close friends".

Currently, Facebook is the most popular social networking of all time compared to other social networking such as Myspace, Twitter, Friendster and others. The popularity  of Facebook now is believed increasing so much that soon it will reach 1 billion members that come from all over the world users. Many people out there who passes most of their time on Facebook. Sometimes, even they are busy with work, they still spent time to log in the Facebook. So, today I have decide to discuss about this advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook? Now, let me start with advantages of using Facebook:

  • Many of us agreed that Facebook is free and it's one of the best medium for communication.
  • With Facebook, we can connect to any type of people from anywhere in the world because almost every people around the world use Facebook.
  • Facebook is the best way for finding old friends. When a friend goes away to any other place we often don't get the chance to communicate with him or her but with Facebook, it gives us the opportunity to communicate with any of our old friend.
  • We can share our feelings and what's happening around in our daily life through Facebook. We can also get feedback from our friends. Facebook is the best medium to share our feelings and thoughts with others.
  • Facebook is also popular for making love relation and dating.
  • Facebook has many online games.
  • What else? There are many more which cannot be described in words. As a whole, Facebook is the best:)
 Now it's time to talk about some disadvantages of Facebook. There are some disadvantages of Facebook beside these many advantages. Some of these disadvantages are:
  •  Facebook is Addicting! Facebook is too much addicting! Facebook is too too addicting! Yes it is indeed addicting which often kills your valuable time. Using Facebook for your need is not bad but when you waste most of your valuable time than it becomes bad. The biggest disadvantages of Facebook is it's addiction which causes many problems.
  •  Fake profile and ID! Fake profile is one of the biggest disadvantage of Facebook. Now it has become easier to create fake profile. People often uses fake profile to insults or harassing someone. It is more common against girls where people simply makes a fake profile and start harassing them. In my country i have got news that some girls died y suicide when someone abused her by making a fake profile of her.
  •  Facebook often brings bad effects on students results. Students who are Facebook addicted does a bad result on his or her exams.
  • Facebook chat doesn't work properly. User often face trouble while chatting in Facebook. 
  • From different news it is found that sometimes Facebook can be life threatening. Many unknown people can track your activities and where you are going. As a result you can face trouble. So be careful in choosing friends and keeping your activities private.
  •  Beside students, people who works in offices wastes their time in browsing Facebook. That's why many offices has decided to block Facebook completely. 
  • There are plenty of groups and Fan pages out there which is being created to abuse or violate other religion , personalities , nation etc. This kind of racist disgusting activities decreasing some popularity. Facebook administrator should take necessary steps against all these abusing groups & pages. 
 So from the above statement it is clear that Facebook can be dangerous as well. It is not wrong for us to use Facebook but we need to be extra careful because Facebook sometime can make us live in miserable life as everyone knows what we do in our daily life. Please use your Facebook wisely.

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