Looking for list of Facebook advantages? You are on the right page. Facebook has many advantages to youth, adult as well as to the businesses. Here are top advantages of Facebook that you might not aware of:
1. Sharing Of Information
The website allows us to share with others what you desire to share, ask public opinion, ask question etc. You can share your pictures, videos and what you have been up to with your
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friends. You can control how much information you want to share with whom and similarly other people share their information with you.
2. Chatting
Facebook is a social networking website but you can use it to chat with your friends, too. Facebook provides a simple, small chatting application that you can use to chat with your friends who are on Facebook and of course online. So why install Skype, Yahoo or any other messenger when you can chat with your all friends using Facebook, which I am sure on which you spend much time of your day.
Many people specially students use Facebook chat for group discussions, while some businesses use it for short meetings.
3. Mobile Facebook
Whatever you can do on facebook.com you can do from your mobile phone facebook app, on the go. Most new smart phones come with Facebook app. So you can update status, comment and do a lot things even from your mobile phone.
4. Find School, College Friendship or Colleague
Today almost every internet user uses Facebook. Using Facebook you can find your old friends and colleagues whom you have lost contact and connect with them online again. Facebook’s friend finder feature allows you to find your friends with their names or email addresses. Many people I know found their very old friends they never knew they will ever contact again. Now they have connected again through Facebook.
5. Business Promotion
Through Facebook Ads and Fans page you can advertise your business. Facebook offers a very customisable ads placement service, which is also very easy to use and cost effective.
Facebook Ads allows you to target people of specific age, geographic location, interests, etc, making your ads most useful and effective.
6. Entertainment
Facebook provides tons of gaming and other applications. Some people open Facebook only to play games.
Besides games, there are tons of Facebook apps that you can use and enjoy. Apps on Facebook are of variety of type such as photo editing, horoscope, stock analysis etc.
7. Boredom Killer
Facebook is a boredom killer, specially for students during vacations and even elderly people who are retired from their job.
8. Re-connecting with Old or Lost Friends/Colleagues
Many people have found their school-age class fellows, and friends on Facebook. With the Facebook's Friend Finder feature, you can search for any person who is on Facebook by entering different keywords like city, school or university name, age, etc. Addition to the Friend Finder feature, Facebook also regularly shows you at side of your Facebook profile list of people who you may know. Facebook users have also found several of their acquaintances through this. So it's really amazing. People who you think you can never find or meet again, you surprisingly find them on Facebook and re-connect!
So Why Use Facebook – In Final Words
As we have learnt above, Facebook is a “one-stop shop” for entertainment, communication, and sharing of information with others. It’s a place where you chat with others, share your ideas, ask questions, comment on people’s status, add your status, make friends, market your business, advertise and much more. You will not find any one-stop shop of this kind on the internet.
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Top 5 Worst Disadvantages Of Facebook
Facebook is the most used social networking website in the world. It has many benefits but there are many disadvantages of Facebook too. These include:
1) Account Intrusion
It is no surprise that Facebook is vulnerable to attacks, and several hackers actively alter people’s profile information, on daily basis. There are hundreds of examples of this. Many Facebook and ex-Facebook users can tell you that they noticed change in their profile information while they were not logged in.
Also, lots of pictures are uploaded on Facebook every day. Yes, Facebook does check every upload for viruses but remember Facebook or any other website can’t check for all kind of viruses, particularly those which are recently released. On opening those virus-attached pics, you create danger to your data and your computer.
2) Scams
Many hackers have similar websites to Facebook. They continuously send emails to people asking to log in to their account to check new photos of
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their friends, or similar message. When the user opens the website, it looks 100% facebook, then he enters his user id and password, not knowing that his account details is being stolen by a hacker.
3) Waste Of Life!
One of the biggest Facebook disadvantages is that it addictive or can become addictive easily. Once you get connected with your facebook friends you will realize how frequently you open Facebook and also spend so much time in commenting, viewing other’s pictures, playing games or doing other stuff. Many people know drawbacks of using Facebook but can’t stop using it.
Many people use Facebook day and night without thinking how much time they have wasted on it, and that they could have done more important work during that time
4) Ruining the Professional Life
If you are applying for a new job, you know your chances of getting that job may be so much reduced because of your social networking website profile page? Often employs search for applicants’s social networking website’s profile page to know more about you. Maybe you have put some humorous pics in your profile or maybe you have entered wrong information (maybe just for fun) in your profile. Your employer will be shocked to see all that and you will not be given the job offer.
5) Can’t Keep Things Personal
You obviously do not want your personal information exposed to every friend of yours or even to public. On Facebook your personal life updates come to the notice of all your friends and others, and so your privacy is compromised.
These were the disadvantages of using Facebook. So what are you thinking now, will you still use Facebook?