Facebook
is defined as “a social utility that connects people with friends and others
who work, study and live around them”. It was founded February 4, 2004 by Mark
Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. People can
make a bunch of new friends on this network and share photos with the world.
This network sounds very open and it can be; however, you can change your
privacy settings which is usually how must users feel it should be. Plenty of
employers will research you and if they find photos or statuses that you’ve
taken and typed that they don’t find to be professional, you will lose that
opportunity. Facebook can be a very optimistic website for everyone to get to
know each other a little better; however, it can also go in the complete
opposite direction if the wrong people are using it.
“Facebook’s not just for keeping
tabs on friends and filling out quizzes — it can also be used as a highly
effective business tool. It’s great for marketing your products, landing gigs
and connecting with your customers”. Facebook usually has ads on the right-hand
side bar and it could potentially help improve businesses. Even though Facebook
gives you the opportunity to upload photos and post statuses and all that jazz,
it also allows you to “like” a page. If for example your business isn’t doing
relatively well, you can spread the word about it and have people “like” the
page on Facebook and it will receive more attention.
This website can improve your
friendships and also form new ones. If someone sees that you have a lot in
common or sees that you have a lot mutual friends, they may want to send you a
friend request. The possibilities are truly endless with the amazing functions
available with this website. Even though we love to meet new people and share
our stories and secrets, it may not always be the best idea in this modern
time. Many people give out to information and leave their profile very public
and can end up being stalked or even in a very intense situation, killed from
being too open. Everyone needs to have privacy settings where only your friends
can see what you do and say and make sure you really know those “friends” on
Facebook in real life.
Facebook also helps actors,
musicians, and other celebrities trying to reach the top of fame. Most
celebrities have fan pages and the more “likes” they get, the more known and
popular they become. A lot of videos are embedded onto Facebook and millions of
users watch them daily. This fragment of Facebook really helps the entertainers
out there trying to become big in the showbiz world.
News is constantly being spread
throughout Facebook. There is always news about this actor and that singer.
Some of it may be rumors, but a lot of it is usually true and there will even
be links to an article to better help you understand the issue at hand. The
news may be exciting and joyful, but it can also be depressing and upsetting.
Either way, Facebook helps diffuse those stories to the public.
We also know that this wonderful
website allows to play games such as “Farmville”. We have all gotten those
pesky game requests from our friends that drive us up the wall, but Facebook
gets us hooked on that silly stuff. Facebook is very sneaky and has lured us
all in, even our parents of this generation to register for an account and
become addicted. There are endless uses for this website that we don’t take
into account.
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