Pros and Cons of Facebook
Facebooking - Time pass actitivity.
For
- It definitely is a time pass activity as it contains lots of fun activities, like games that are used by people on a regular basis to get out of their boredom.
- Being a social networking site it is just a means of communication where people can make new friends or connect with long lost friends.
- People become so addictive towards it that they spend most of their time socializing via facebook.
- People meet new people; make new relationships through this network which increases the healthy interactions among them.
Against
- Individuals connect through facebook to their co-workers or colleagues which helps them to remain up to date.
- Facebook is used to advertise products which are relatively new in the market and can be easily purchased through facebook.
- It is good way to update people about the recent events taking place nearby or in the world.
- Facebook being a quick and effective way of communicating (people separated by time zones) can not be termed as a time pass activity.
- Facebook teaches a lot of new aspects about different websites.
Facebook is just a fad that will pass
Yes because...No because...
The Web is something rich and strange and Facebook is not
Back in 1988 before the Web arrived we used to play a lot of image based games around the internet, passing encoded images back and forth and basically working hard to make some sense of this dark network where no-one could see anyone else.
From that point on for me the internet and the web have been a rich and strange playground where each new person, each new application, each new network, added something unknowable to the sum total of where we worked and played.
Facebook doesn’t really do any of that. It’s a nice tidy ‘burb where everyone has more or less the same house, same garden, same car, same attitude.
Sure, we can all add friends and join networks and add applications, but it’s always clear that
For
- It definitely is a time pass activity as it contains lots of fun activities, like games that are used by people on a regular basis to get out of their boredom.
- Being a social networking site it is just a means of communication where people can make new friends or connect with long lost friends.
- People become so addictive towards it that they spend most of their time socializing via facebook.
- People meet new people; make new relationships through this network which increases the healthy interactions among them.
Against
- Individuals connect through facebook to their co-workers or colleagues which helps them to remain up to date.
- Facebook is used to advertise products which are relatively new in the market and can be easily purchased through facebook.
- It is good way to update people about the recent events taking place nearby or in the world.
- Facebook being a quick and effective way of communicating (people separated by time zones) can not be termed as a time pass activity.
- Facebook teaches a lot of new aspects about different websites.
Facebook is just a fad that will pass
Yes because...No because...
The Web is something rich and strange and Facebook is not
Back in 1988 before the Web arrived we used to play a lot of image based games around the internet, passing encoded images back and forth and basically working hard to make some sense of this dark network where no-one could see anyone else.
From that point on for me the internet and the web have been a rich and strange playground where each new person, each new application, each new network, added something unknowable to the sum total of where we worked and played.
Facebook doesn’t really do any of that. It’s a nice tidy ‘burb where everyone has more or less the same house, same garden, same car, same attitude.
Sure, we can all add friends and join networks and add applications, but it’s always clear that