Friday, 30 May 2014

Tutorial 3

The Goodness and Badness of Using Facebook  

What is Facebook? Facebook is the most overrated social networking site in this modern era. This site had reached out to many people across the globe and is increasing drastically over time. In every good there is always a bad, likewise it applies the same to Facebook. There are pros and cons to the Facebook users.

The advantages of using Facebook are one is able to connect with many people around the world. This is an opening for us to grab as we are able to learn more about different ethnics and cultures that we are unaware of, just by using Facebook. Moreover, there are many cases as to which Facebook plays a vital part in finding a long lost friend that one has lost contact for a very long time maybe due to a migration. Through Facebook their friendship is reunited again. Furthermore, Facebook is a free medium of communication and people are able to express their taught and feelings. Facebook users are also able to find out information and discuss on current issues that are at heat through this social networking by the post of other people. The productive use of Facebook is that many lecturers nowadays also use Facebook to convey their tutorial questions, exams tips, cancellation of classes or any form of information regarding their lecture or subject to the students via Facebook.  

On the other hand, there are disadvantages of Facebook. Despite the goodness of using Facebook, some users get of hand being addicted to Facebook and end up wasting precious time. Time waits for no men; therefore wasting time on Facebook doing things that are unimportant could be a serious matter that needs to be taken into consideration. In addition to that, due to this addiction the grades of students can be misleading because of the hours spent on Facebook and not on education. Furthermore, one of the many fights in most of the relationship occurs because of the Facebook relationship statues. This is highly a sensitive issue when a couple is in a relationship and depends on relationship statues to know if they are still together. Personal information is exposed on Facebook. This could be a threat to ourselves as it makes it easier for us to be the victim of rape or kidnap as our activities are checked in and this gives space for the stalker to conduct his violent act.   
In a nutshell, Facebook users can take measures to reduce the disadvantages caused by Facebook. Let Facebook be a beneficial social networking site and not be otherwise.

              


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