IIUM Centre for Continuing Education (ICCE)
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC WRITING
LE 4000
GROUP ASSIGNMENT
THE INFLUENCE OF FACEBOOK TO THE SOCIETY
PREPARED BY :
ANNA BINTI BADAI (KK1221052)
NORAIDAH BINTI SIUM (KK1218178)
KAMALIAH BINTI SABARI (KK1314160)
PREPARED FOR :
PUAN NOR ARIFAH MOHD NOR
SUBMISSION DATE : 28 DECEMBER 2014
INTRODUCTION
Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has ingrained itself into the daily life of digital-age users in a way that forebears like Myspace and Twitter could imagine. Ten years and 1.2 billion users into its existence (CNN, 2014), there’s no question that Facebook has changed into many people life who is using Facebook or even those who are not. It is a culture that is affecting every one of us who is using Facebook. It has a great influence in our society. Despite of
Facebook popularity among our society, Communication and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri
Ahmad Shabery Cheek has made an announcement that the Malaysia government is now looking at the possibility of blocking Facebook, following 2000 claims of abuse reports by
Facebook users (The Malaysia Insider, 2014). This announcement triggered the whole
Malaysian and many reminded the government about overall positive impact of Facebook in the society. It is also impossible to close Facebook which have 15 million Malaysia’s accounts compared 2000 abused claims (The Malaysia Insider, 2014). Is Facebook beneficial to the
Society? In our opinion we agreed Facebook has more positive impact to the society especially to the business users, youth and women.
THE INFLUENCE OF FACEBOOK ON BUSINESS (ANNA BINTI BADAI)
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected (M Zuckerberg’s, 2009). People use Facebook to connect with families and friends or other people around the world. There are a lot of people being able to reconnect with friends that they have lost contact for many years with Facebook, just by