Facebook - Pros and Cons

Facebook – Pros and Cons

Facebook is one of the bigger social networking sites there is. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It has 1.2 billion active users. Facebook is used for socialising with your friends and family and keeping in touch. You create your own profile and can upload photos and videos. Facebook is also used for posting messages on each other's wall. Examples for these are saying happy birthday or just seeing how your friends and family are doing and what they have been up too. Advantages and disadvantages are below.

Advantages of Facebook

• Keeping in touch and socialising with friends and family which live in different places.
• Search for new friends that you've recently met.
• Let's users find student in the same class as them in university/college
• Easy to use and find your way around

Disadvantages of Facebook

• stalkers are common on Facebook.
• can get an addiction if you use it too much
• People can get hold of your personal information and use it for their benefit
• Strangers can message you without your permission.
• Facebook has also had risks of cyber-bullying due to different opinions.
• Posting something not nice. Once you post something that is nasty or unkind on Facebook it will also be there.