Sunday, December 21, 2014

USING FACEBOOK EVERYDAY - GOOD OR BAD? - By MaddaliSwetha

“Success always hugs you in private. But Failure always slaps you in the public. That’s Life” – Life Lessons

India has the second largest number of people on Facebook in the world, which is the fastest growing, also most popular social networking site. As with every single innovation, internet has its own advantages and disadvantages.

What is Facebook all about?

Facebook, a social networking site, founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates, has developed from being limited to only the Harvard students to almost every person’s part of life in the world. Thus, the special features of Facebook are it is a common platform for everybody including people of all ages, religions, professions, interests, needs and many more. It binds people across the oceans and surely, you must have felt a sense of self-importance whenever you got a “like” on anything you share on Facebook such as you can chat, play games, advertise, organize, show your interests, have a personal as well as a public or a limited audience talks with other people.

Some of the advantages of using Facebook:


1. To connect with family, friends, work and colleges group:

It is the latest medium of connecting with your dear ones. You can even customize the settings to be “offline” or “online” for some selected ones and still chat with them easily.

2. Information:

Information about the people across the seas as well as the ones near you is also readily available to you. Whatever happens in anybody’s life they tend to update it through their “status”, or photographs. So, you are there and then informed about any such updates and thus Facebook proves to be very informative.

3. Entertainment:

There are many ways in which Facebook can be used as a source of entertainment. First of all, the gossips that you have with your friends are the biggest way that could never leave you to bore.

4. To find a date:

You have the freedom to browse the profiles of other people on Facebook until and unless they have not customized and hidden it from the public. Your access to their profiles can help you find people of your interests and you can easily send a “friend request” to them OR send a private message.

5. Image and video hosting:

You can use Facebook to host your images and videos. You get a direct download link of whatever you upload.

6. Business Promotion:

Facebook is an intelligent place to market your products. The immensely increasing Facebook users can be your future potential customers. Likewise, marketers can create a page for their products where they can have the images, videos and detailed descriptions about the products.

7. To find a job:

Through Facebook you can easily contact the manager or create professional contacts with any number of hiring people. Keep updating your status regularly about your job requirements and someone will surely come up to help you.

8. Video calling:

The tool for video calling of Facebook helps you to have a normal video chat, as the name specifies. Your distant relatives and friends can easily come close to you, as you are in front of each other “live”. Many a times, you can have an interview or meeting with your professional counterparts and thus it helps in establishing relationships.

9. Personal Portfolio:

If you are an artist, then create a page for yourself and then create a portfolio where you can display your art and maintain the collection. A portfolio of all the memorable snaps can also be uploaded so that they are there as a backup.

10. Social protest:

Facebook is such a powerful weapon that any kind of social issue can gain momentum and can create a wave of enthusiasm amongst the people that any other media cannot, in a short time.

Disadvantages of using Facebook:


1. Privacy and personal information:

Whatever safety measures you take to protect your profile, there will always be some hackers looking to enter your profile and do unwanted things. Your personal photographs and videos that you upload can be easily stolen by them. So, it is better not to give too private information on the profile and not share picture’s that are too personal.

2. Personal status:

It is to be noted that anything published publicly just to seek attention may lead to human tendency that people take more interest in others’ lives rather than their own.

3. Fake Facebook profiles:

Sometimes people create fake profiles just for fun or to stalk on other people. There are millions of fake profiles existing there because some strange people create profiles for a non-human entity such as their “pets”. Many people enter into online personal relationships with wrong persons and that could lead to their ruin. People try to pose as someone else and try to fool others.

4. Writing worthless things:

Facebook does not stop anyone from writing anything on places like “walls” of their own or their friends, comments, messages etc. This tends to waste a lot of time because many a times these kinds of things uselessly attract the attention of others and they cannot stop themselves from reading it and actually taking part in the conversation.

5. Time consuming:

Facebook is an addiction. Once you join it, you are likely to spend most of your free time doing something or the other on Facebook. And it does not stop here. Some people even start compromising their family get-togethers and professional meetings for this Facebook.

Hence, you are the user. So, it depends on the way you use it that Facebook proves to be a Friend or an Enemy to you. Use it wisely and safely, so that at least the good purpose of Facebook is not lost.

Conclusion:

1. There are numerous “Apps” present in Facebook. So, be careful with your credentials.

2. In recent marriage survey – some researchers are stating divorce cases are more.

3. Facebook is useless for teenagers (18 years below). Its impact is very high in studies like losing concentration, and sleep.  

4. Due to Facebook – now students all losing our inherent talent like reading newspapers and reading books.

5. “Unfriend” is for removing you from friends list but not completely rejecting you.

6. I recently posted on my timeline asking my contacts to suggest more options other than “LIKE”. People really enjoyed my post and suggested alternatives.

7. I strongly feel Mark Zuckerberg should and must add a “Dislike” option in Facebook.

It looks like as if Facebook is trying to stay positive these days. But Zuckerberg is just humoring us: Facebook will never add a Dislike button, regardless of users' demands…. thumbs down" option seems to fall into two camps. For some, "Liking" tragic news seems inappropriate -- and yet Facebook does offer a "Share" option on its own site, while third party sites can opt to use a "Recommend" button instead. Others simply want to express distaste for a page or news update -- this is a move Facebook will never make, however, because it doesn't align with the company's interests.


In fact, Facebook is banded and is not followed in some countries. But in India, its not.


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