It looks like every phone and tablet manufactured lately has a Facebook application on it. That’s good, Facebook is very interesting, and it’s informative, enlightening and educational. It also keeps you connected with friends, family and boosts your causes and businesses. It’s basically a one stop shop for people.
Facebook allows its users make friends or catch up with old ones and keep a friends list. One can make posts; upload pictures and videos for their friend’s consumption and comment on friends’ status or activity.
There is an online chat feature built in that allows multiple chat similar to sending sms short message service but on d Facebook platform.
Every user has a wall where their posts and some of their activities on Facebook can be seen.
Bored online? One can play games on Facebook , join various groups or create your own family, friends, religious, ethnic, social group or visit pages for celebrities, businesses or interesting people.
Facebook has a general marketplace where anything and basically everything can be sold within legal limits. The market is global and or localized to ones location.
Facebook is currently the hook up capital of the world as it gives opportunity for romance and relationships to develop.
Facebook currently has about 900 million users spread all over the world. I get all my news on Fb, attend classes, found old friends from as far back as nursery school, buy and sell stuff, do advocacy keep in touch with my relatives and so many other things but lately I’ve felt the need to stay off Facebook a bit its getting too addictive. I also noticed that too many people rely only on Facebook as internet access. I ran a poll and found that for many people social networking on Facebook, twitter and 2go is the limit of their internet use
One of the negative features of Facebook is that It’s quite addictive. It is also not suitable for children as they can be easily influenced and can make all kinds of undesirable connections.
Many people claim it leads to infidelity and has destroyed many relationships, that may be true .I have seen and heard of people getting so engrossed in their cyber friends and relationships to the detriment of their real lives especially their marriages.
Security on Facebook is also a problem as everything one does is recorded somewhere. Personal details could land in the wrong hands if the site ever gets hacked.
I choose to look at the positive features of Facebook. Despite all its positive aspects its good for Facebook users to go check visit other sites and widen their web experience. Their are other social networking sites like Myspace,Hi5, Orkut, Xing, Google+, linkedin, Friendster, Twitter, Tagged etc.
According to Alexa a rating service for websites the top 5 sites on the internet are
1-Google
2-Facebook
3-Youtube
4-Yahoo
5- Baidu.
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