Benefits and Disadvantages of Concerning Using Facebook

“ Facebook is a social networking site which was launched on February 2004” by college students Mark Zuckerberg. “ Between Fall 2005 and Fall 2006, Facebook expanded to high school networks, first work networks, later to Internet users in general.” (Valenzuela, Park, & F. Kee, K, 2008. p. 5). Today, Facebook has become one of famous networking phenomenon that is taking the whole wide world for all ages from children to grandparents. It is online community that we can in touch, communicate, connect, and get to know each other better over time. Nodaway, Facebook has become very important part of our life. It is helping us keep in touch with your friends and family and also it harming us in many ways. However, in society there are many benefits but there are many disadvantages of concerning using Facebook.

First of all, Facebook has two major benefits. The first benefit is allows people to video chat, message, wall updates, chat, send photo and video to stay in touch with your friends, work colleague, school and family. Example: “ My cousin in Vietnam that I have lost touch with her after I came to America and suddenly, she found my Facebook profile from searching my real name.” Because of that, I can stay in contact through Facebook with my whole family in my country from now on. Sometime, I can look at my cousin profile and read her status, what she wants to say about happening around in her life. This is a good way that I like about Facebook sharing your emotion and then gets feedback from friends’ reaction toward your feeling. Another benefit of using Facebook is helping online business grow up. It the best sites to have fan page to connect with everyone. To maintain a good relationship with customers to sell, promote product, or services, increasing the possibilities of making money from Facebook.

Beside the advantages, Facebook also has a common disadvantage that is people spend too much time on it. Once you meet new friends on Facebook, they will tend to chat, updates status, and makes you interesting on them. “ Like my sister while doing homework, she keep her eyes on Facebook every 5 or 10 minutes to see her friends updating status.” This is reason can not make you focus doing homework or at work when you have Facebook account. As the result, many people will not realize that they have spent many hours on addicted social site. With the amount of time, they can do many duty things such as house working, reading book, doing homework, helping people who need help and many useful things.

Finally, another common disadvantage of Facebook are virus-scam, and ruining the professional life. Those common are happening to everyone. This day, there are many hackers continuously send a link such as “ Click here! To see Miley Cyrus broke up with her boyfriend” or “ Want to get free money? Click here to find out more,” or some link similar to that. When you click it, either the hackers can scam your profile account or make your laptop get virus. Another common is ruining the professional life, if you are applying for a job, the employs search for applicant’s social networking website’s profile page to see your humorous pictures or bad status. They don’t want to accept their new applicant is bad person and they will not be given job offer for you.

To sum up, the social network like Facebook does benefit for me because I can keep in touch with my family and ask my friends for help. Also, when I get bored at work or home, I can look up some game, chat with people, and read people status. On the other hand, there is disadvantage of using Facebook is wasting time because Facebook is too addicting online social network. However, many people this day using Facebook daily like a diary to help them sharing their personal life.

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