Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew, dustin moskovitz and chris hughes.The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the ivy League, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States, corporations,and by September 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address.
WHO CREATED FACEBOOK
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room.
MEANINGS OF FACEBOOK
Each Facebook profile has a "wall," where friends can post comments. Since the wall is viewable by all the user's friends, wall postings are basically a public conversation. Therefore, it is usually best not to write personal messages on your friends' walls. Instead, you can send a person a private message, which will show up in his or her private inbox, similar to an e-mail message
THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES USING OF FACEBOOK
ADVANTAGES OF 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 familiar with Internet are using Facebook . This gives us the opportunity to know more about their culture, values, custom and tradition.
# Facebook is the most appropriate tool for finding Old friends. When friends go away to any other place, we often don't get the chance to communicate with them. 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 our feelings. It is the best medium to share your feelings and thoughts with others
.# You can use Facebook groups to connect all your close friends together. You can also maintain the privacy of the group by making it 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.
# Facebook plays a very important role in getting latest valuable information. Facebook fan pages and users are constantly sharing many valuable news and information.
# Facebook advertising and Fan pages are very helpful for a successful marketing campaign to many business organization.
# You can chat with friends by using Facebook. The Facebook messenger application is very handy for chatting online.
# Students can use Facebook for group study by creating a group only for studying. There you can share any information about your projects , homework , assignments , exams , due date etc.
# We can also use Facebook as social bookmarking site. We can share our article, blogs , photo's etc to thousands of people.
# Facebook advertising and Fan pages are very helpful for a successful marketing campaign to many business organization.
# You can chat with friends by using Facebook. The Facebook messenger application is very handy for chatting online.
# Students can use Facebook for group study by creating a group only for studying. There you can share any information about your projects , homework , assignments , exams , due date etc.
# We can also use Facebook as social bookmarking site. We can share our article, blogs , photo's etc to thousands of people.
DISADVANTAGES OF FACEBOOK
#. Facebook is Addicting! For some people Facebook could be more addicting than Cigarette!Using Facebook for your need is actually good for us but when we waste most of our valuable time then it becomes harmful. The biggest disadvantages of Facebook is it's addiction which causes many problems, mostly because it kills our precious time
.# Fake profile and ID! Fake profile is one of the biggest disadvantage of Facebook. Now it is easier to create fake profile with a stolen picture. 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 found that many girls are mentally depressed or committed suicide after being harassed in Facebook
# Facebook often brings bad effects on students results. Badly Facebook addicted students do not get good marks in their exams unless they cheat or way too smart for the class!
# 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 from 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 people should be careful in choosing friends and should try to keep their activities private.
# 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 from 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 people should be careful in choosing friends and should try to keep their activities private.
So from the above statement it is clear that Facebook has many disadvantages and could be dangerous at times. Every Facebook users should use Facebook carefully to minimize the effect of these disadvantages.
IMPACT :
Media impact
In April 2011, Facebook launched a new portal for marketers and creative agencies to help them develop brand promotions on Facebook. The company began its push by inviting a select group of British advertising leaders to meet Facebook's top executives at an "influencers' summit" in February 2010. Facebook has now been involved in campaigns for true blood ,american idol and top gear.[News and media outlets such as the Washington Post, Financial Times and ABC News have used aggregated Facebook fan data to create various infographics and charts to accompany their articles. In 2012, the beauty pageant miss sri lanka online was run exclusively using Facebook.
Social impact
Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends because of the widespread reach of its network. One such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been seeking for 20 years. They met after Watson found her Facebook profile.Another father–daughter reunion was between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years.
Some argue that Facebook is beneficial to one's social life because they can continuously stay in contact with their friends and relatives, while others say that it can cause increased antisocial tendencies because people are not directly communicating with each other. Some studies have named Facebook as a source of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested that using Facebook can lead to higher instances of divorce and infidelity, but the claims have been questioned by other commentators.
Health impact
Many Facebook users, especially adolescents, display references to alcohol and substance use on their Facebook profiles.One study of alcohol displays on underage college Facebook users found that 35.7% participant profiles displayed alcohol.This can include photos of underage drinking, or status updates describing alcohol or substance use. This is particularly concerning because new social media such as Facebook can influence adolescents by acting as a “superpeer,” promoting norms of behavior among other adolescents.Regardless of whether these displays represent real offline behavior or are posted just to make the Facebook user “look cool”, displaying these references may lead to an expectation by friends that the adolescent does or will drink alcohol in the future.
Facebook envy
Unless you get out of Facebook and into someone's face, you really have not acted.
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thomas L.Friedman, 2012
Recent studies have shown that Facebook causes negative effects on self-esteem by triggering feelings of envy, with vacation and holiday photos proving to be the largest resentment triggers. Other prevalent causes of envy include posts by friends about family happiness and images of physical beauty—such envious feelings leave people lonely and dissatisfied with their own lives. A joint study by two German universities discovered that one out of three people were more dissatisfied with their lives after visiting Facebook, and another study by utah valley university found that college students felt worse about their own lives following an increase in the amount of time spent on Facebook.
Political impact
Facebook's role in the American political process was demonstrated in January 2008, shortly before the new hampshire primary, when Facebook teamed up with ABC and saint anselm college to allow users to give live feedback about the "back to back" January 5 Republican and Democratic debates.charles gibson moderated both debates, held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College. Facebook users took part in debate groups organized around specific topics, register to vote, and message questions.
ABCNews.com reported in 2012 that the Facebook fanbases of political candidates have relevance for the election campaign, including:
- Allows politicians and campaign organizers to understand the interests and demographics of their Facebook fanbases, to better target their voters.
- Provides a means for voters to keep up-to-date on candidates' activities, such as connecting to the candidates' Facebook Fan Pages.
Over a million people installed the Facebook application "US Politics on Facebook" in order to take part, and the application measured users' responses to specific comments made by the debating candidates.This debate showed the broader community what many young students had already experienced: Facebook as a popular and powerful new way to interact and voice opinions. An article by Michelle Sullivan of Uwire.com illustrates how the "Facebook effect" has affected youth voting rates, support by youth of political candidates, and general involvement by the youth population in the 2008 election.
In February 2008, a Facebook group called "One Million Voices Against FARC" organized an event in which hundreds of thousands of Colombians marched in protest against the revolutionary armed forces of colombia, better known as the FARC (from the group's Spanish name). In August 2010, one of North Korea's official government websites and the official news agency of the country, uriminzokkiri, joined Facebook.
In January 2011, Facebook played a major role in generating the first spark for the2011 egyptian revolution. On January 14, the Facebook page of "We are all khaled Said" was started by Wael Ghoniem Create Event to invite the Egyptian people to "peaceful demonstrations" on January 25. As in Tunisia, Facebook become the primary tool for connecting all protesters, which lead the Egyptian government of Prime Minister Nazif to ban Facebook, Twitter and another websites on January 26 then ban all mobile and Internet connections for all of Egypt at midnight January 28. After 18 days, the uprising forced President Mubarak to resign.
In 2011, Facebook filed paperwork with the Federal election commission to form a political action committee under the name FB PAC.In an email to The Hill, a spokesman for Facebook said "FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
Unfriending psychological impact
Although Facebook has an upside of friending people, there is also the downside of having someone unfriend or reject another person, according to psychologist Susan Krauss Whitbourne. Whitbourne refers to unfriended persons on Facebook as victims of estrangement. Unfriending someone is seldom a mutual decision and the person often does not know of being unfriended.
