Facebook - a popular name among those who are so into it.

Individuals who have an account

in Facebook are now using more oI their time to socialize with other people amidst the
distance and lack oI time. And even iI a community like Facebook serves numerous
advantages, it also proves to have certain disadvantages as well. There are now series oI
improvements in the system just to make up with the shortcomings. Arguments regarding the
diIIerent advantages and disadvantages oI Facebook are stated below.
Advantages
Allows user search Ior new and old Iriends
Accessible to chosen universities having a high level oI security
Makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers or people you are not Iamiliar
with
Love attraction - can be used as a dating service system
Makes it easier to join groups having similar likes and dislikes
Allows members to check students who are taking the same class, living within the same
area, or coming Irom the same academy
Disadvantages
Overcrowding
Weakening long distance relationship
Unsupported by physical adjacency
Contributes wide-range procrastination
Rampant addiction
Stalking is possible
Acquaintances be labeled as Iriends
Surely, the disadvantages don't pose a threat to you just by merely looking at it. Someone else
has to prove that what users do with their proIile is directly in proportion with what can
happen to them. A user must understand what he is trying to give out otherwise things might
get messy and people will mistook them as someone else.
It is quite obvious that a trade oII is happening between the advantages and disadvantages oI
Facebook. While it increases the communication and connection between Iriends and the
online community it also increases the risk oI procrastination and makes it easier Ior others to
stalk a user. Worse, some are actually punished Ior what they put on their proIile and would
claim that it was there only Ior Iun.
Despite the above mentioned advantages and disadvantages oI an online networking service,
it still is gaining demand and popularity among the young crowd. There are about 10,000
students (proIessionals and young proIessionals not yet included) who are joining into
Facebook every day. This is regardless oI the age, race and country. Some are now trying to
criticize the status oI proIessionalism oI this site whether it's just another Iad like other online
networking services are.



Disadvantage
ven the most distinguished product can have its disadvantages and can cause some
predicament with one's character. Here are some oI Facebook's disadvantages when it comes
to relationships, emotional procrastination and depression, industry, cyber stalking and
superIiciality.
AIIecting Relationships
Talk about long distance relationships, Facebook would be the one answer Iriends, Iamily
and lovers can count on. Though conducted on a distance, the system can still connect
relationships right that very moment. But because relationships are built and strengthened just
because oI an Internet site, it tends to become weaker and it supports less emotional and most
especially physical contact. Some relationships tumble down due to Iacts like these.
AIIecting motions
Because Facebook adapts a Iree-Ilowing inIormation environment, some uses it to target on
other's emotional depression. Others send out procrastination just to bring down a speciIic
person or even bully a student in the lower years. Targeting the emotions may cause a
negative attitude towards a person's social relationship, physical activity, and academic
issues.
AIIecting Industry
ven iI the system overIlows with so much advantages that one can be joyIul oI, there are
still numbers oI Ilaws that one can pinpoint. Internet industry is greatly aIIected by sites
popping out to render a technical community. This is where the rivalry starts. The crowding
is also becoming an issue. The program is considered as a negative diversion especially to the
schooling industry, aIIecting students to divert their attention.
AIIecting Privacy
Cyber stalking is one thing. Barging into someone's privacy is another. Come to think about
it, cyber stalking and invading one's privacy goes hand in hand. A person who is engaged in
cyber stalking tends to know everything about a person and uses it Iirst hand. A lot oI a user's
personal inIormation is so accessible that almost everyone, even those who know you but you
don't know oI, can view it.
SuperIiciality
There are those who would want to be recognized as someone even in the Internet society.
But thanks to sites like Facebook, some are already being characterized superIicially because
oI the user's identiIication oI their personal Iavorites. It's like being one with the world and
being one with the trend without Iorming any kind oI identity that one can point out to be
unique.
The important thing about having Facebook is that a person be discreet in the inIormation
that is given out. Privacy and other things stated above can be prevented iI the user won't give
out any kind oI inIormation that he considers private.