Facebook: The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Using Facebook

Facebook is the most popular social networking site of all time. The popularity of Facebook has increased drastically. Within 6 years Facebook has reached 1+ billion users milestone. Nowadays Facebook has become very important part of our life. It is helping us in many ways and also harming us in other ways. In this Article I will give you a very long list of advantages and disadvantages of Facebook.

The Advantages of Using Facebook

Facebook is free and it's one of the best medium for communication.
With the help of Facebook you can connect to different people from anywhere in the world, because almost every people familiar with Internet are using Facebook . This gives us the opportunity to know more about their culture, values, custom and tradition.
Facebook is the most appropriate tool for finding Old friends. When friends go away to any other place, we often don't get the chance to communicate with them. But now Facebook gives us the opportunity to communicate with our Old friend very easily without any cost.
We can share our feelings an what's happening around in our daily life through Facebook. We can also get feedback from our friends about their reaction toward our feelings. It is the best medium to share your feelings and thoughts with others.
Facebook has good privacy setting which gives you the option to maintain privacy according to your wish.
You can use Facebook groups to connect all your close friends together. You can also maintain the privacy of the group by making it private. It also has new features like group chatting, notification, file sharing etc. These features would help the members of the group to stay connected.

Facebook email is very useful too. Facebook now offers us an email address to receive email outside of Facebook such as, Yahoo, Gmail, outlook and Hotmail. The email address is given based on the user name of your Facebook ID. For example, if your username is "TikTok" , you Facebook email address shall be "TikTok @ Facebook.com". You can also receive files attachment through Facebook email.
Students can use Facebook for group study by creating a group only for studying. There you can share any information about your projects , homework , assignments , exams , due date etc.
You can chat with friends by using Facebook. The Facebook messenger application is very handy for chatting online.

The Disadvantages of Using Facebook

Facebook is Addicting! For some people Facebook could be more addicting than Cigarette! Using Facebook for your need is actually good for us but when we waste most of our valuable time then it becomes harmful. The biggest disadvantages of Facebook is it's addiction which causes many problems, mostly because it kills our precious time.

Fake profile and ID! Fake profile is one of the biggest disadvantage of Facebook. Now it is easier to create fake profile with a stolen picture. People often use fake profile to insult or harass someone they don't like.Teen girls are more vulnerable to these activities. There are news found that many girls are mentally depressed or committed suicide after being harassed in Facebook.
There are plenty of groups and Fan pages out there which are being created to abuse or violate other religion , personalities , nation etc. This kind of racist disgusting activities is not acceptable in a global site like Facebook. Facebook administrator should take necessary steps against all of these abusing groups & pages.
Many Facebook addicted couples are facing conflicts with their Facebook activities and later files for a divorce. According to a recent study, around a third of divorce filing in recent years contained the word "Facebook". The extra informations found in the Facebook are used as evidence to complete the divorce process.
Facebook often brings bad effects on students results. Badly Facebook addicted students do not get good marks in their exams unless they cheat or way too smart for the class!
People can stalk you and get your personal information by using Facebook. It is highly recommended not to share your personal information publicly.

Beside students, people who works in offices wastes their time in browsing Facebook. That's why many offices have decided to block Facebook completely from their network.
From different sources it is found that, Facebook can be life threatening sometimes. Many unknown people can track your activities and where you are going. As a result you can face trouble. So people should be careful in choosing friends and should try to keep their activities private.

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