Facebook: Advantages and Disadvantages

Facebook is the most popular social networking of all time. The popularity of Facebook has increased drastically. Within 6 years Facebook has reached 1+ billion users milestone. Nowadays Facebook has become very important part of our life. It is helping us in many ways and also harming us in other ways. In this Article I will give you a very long list of advantages and disadvantages of Facebook.



Advantages of Using Facebook


  • Facebook is free and it's one of the best medium for communication.
  •  With the help of Facebook you can connect to different people from anywhere in the world because almost every people around the world use Facebook . This gives us the opportunity to know more about their custom and tradition,culture, religion etc.
  •  Facebook is best for finding Old friends. When a friend goes away to any other place, we often don't get the chance to communicate with him or her. But now Facebook gives us the opportunity to communicate with our Old friend very easily without any cost.
  •  We can share our feelings an what's happening around in our daily life through Facebook. We can also get feedback from our friends about their reaction toward your feelings. It is the best medium to share your feelings and thoughts with others.
  •  Facebook has good privacy setting which gives you the option to customize according to your wish.
  •  Facebook Fan pages , groups , events etc are getting popular day by day. You can use these Fan pages & groups for promotional activities . 
  •  You can use Facebook groups to connect all your close friends together. You can also maintain the privacy of the group by putting the setting into private. It also has new features like group chatting, notification, file sharing etc. These features would help the members of the group to stay connected.
  •  You can chat with friends by Facebook chat box.Many popular celebrity and organization uses Facebook to give updates to their fans. So with Facebook you stay closer to any famous person or organization.
  •  Students can use Facebook for group study by creating a group only for studying. There you can share any information about your projects , home work , assignments , exams , due date etc.
  •  Facebook is also popular for making love relation and dating.
  •  Facebook online games are really popular and addicting. There are millions of people who uses Facebook only for playing games with their friends.
  •  Facebook has thousands of application, quiz, games etc which is increasing it's popularity day by.
  •  Facebook plays a very important role in getting latest valuable information. You can gather information from your friends post, Fan page updates , groups etc
  •  We can also use Facebook as social bookmarking site. We can share our article, blogs , photo's etc to thousands of people.
  •  Facebook like button is connecting their user to every other website. With single like button now you can bring everything inside Facebook.
  •  If you have a Facebook login ID than you don't need to waste your time for registering other site. Most of the site now allows a user to login at their site by using Facebook Login ID
  •  Facebook is well designed! There is no fancy color or design available which distracts people.
  •  Spamming! no spamming actually not a big problem in Facebook because you can easily hid the post of the spammer of block them permanently.
  •  Facebook advertising and Fan pages are very helpful for a successful marketing campaign to many business organization.
  •  What else? There are many more which can not be described in words. In a nut shell Facebook is the best :) .


Disadvantages of Facebook

Now it's time to talk about some disadvantages of Facebook. There are some Disadvantages of Facebook beside all these advantages. Some of the main disadvantages are :



  • Facebook is Addicting! Facebook is too much addicting! Facebook is too too addicting! Yes it is indeed addicting which often kills your valuable time. Using Facebook for your need is fine but when you waste most of your valuable time then it is not good. The biggest disadvantages of Facebook is it's addiction which causes many problems by killing your precious time.
  •  Fake profile and ID! Fake profile is one of the biggest disadvantage of Facebook. Now it is easier to create fake profile. People often use fake profile to insult or harass someone they don't like.Teen girls are more vulnerable to these activities. There are news that many girls are doing suicide after being harassed in Facebook.
  •  There are plenty of groups and Fan pages out there which are being created to abuse or violate other religion , personalities , nation etc. This kind of racist disgusting activities decreasing some popularity. Facebook administrator should take necessary steps against all of these abusing groups & pages.
  •  Facebook often brings bad effects on students results. Badly Facebook addicted students do not get good marks in their exams unless they are too smart.
  •  People can stalk you and get your personal information by using Facebook. It is highly recommended not to share your personal information publicly.
  •  Beside students, people who works in offices wastes their time in browsing Facebook. That's why many offices have decided to block Facebook completely in their network.
  •  False report! Many people lost their precious Facebook ID because of false report. Facebook administrator should be careful on that.
  •  Facebook chat doesn't work properly. User often face trouble while chatting in Facebook.
  •  From different sources it is found that, Facebook can be life threatening sometimes. Many unknown people can track your activities and where you are going. As a result you can face trouble. So be careful in choosing friends and try to keep your activities private.
  •  News also found that one mother killed her child because it was crying in hunger while she was browsing Facebook and a husband killed her wife because she changed her relationship status. These acts are rare but not false.
So from the above statement it is clear that Facebook has many disadvantages and could be dangerous as well. Every Facebook users should use Facebook carefully to minimize the effect of these disadvantages.
I hope this hub will be useful for someone who likes or hate Facebook ;) Please do comment and share your experience with Facebook.