This document defines Facebook and compares its advantages and disadvantages. It begins by defining Facebook as an online social networking service founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and others. It then lists some key advantages of Facebook such as it being free, allowing users to connect worldwide, and share their daily lives. However, it also notes Facebook addiction can waste time and fake profiles can be used to harass others. The document concludes by stating Facebook can negatively impact student results if overused and that employees can waste work time on the site.
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The definition of Facebook.
Advantages and Disadvantages of using Facebook
Comparison
3. The definition of Facebook
Facebook is an online social networking
service. Its name comes from a colloquialism
for the directory given to students at some
American universities.Facebook was founded
on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with
his college roommates and fellow Harvard
University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris
Hughes.The founders had initially limited the
website's membership to Harvard students,
but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston
area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University.
It gradually added support for students at
various other universities before it opened to
high-school students, and eventually to
anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now
allows anyone who claims to be at least 13
years old to become a registered user of the
website.
6. 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 small list of advantages and
disadvantages of Facebook.
7. 1.Advantages……….
# 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,
# We can share our feelings and what's happening around
in our daily life through Facebook.
# Facebook Fan pages , groups , events etc are getting
popular day by day. You can use these Fan pages & groups
for promotional activities
# 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.
8. 2.Disadvantages……
The biggest disadvantages of Facebook is it's addiction which causes
many problems, mostly because it kills our precious time.
Fake profile and ID! 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.
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.