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Facebook: The Many Faces of a Social Book

What is Facebook? How did it come? Why is it so highly popular? What are the merits and demerits of it? This content will take a look at these questions and will seek to explore why Facebook has become the “in-thing” in the world today. Facebook is a social networking website operated by Facebook, Inc., a company with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Facebook is free to join anywhere in the world and signing up in the website, www.facebook.com. Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004 by the computer scientists Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes studying at Harvard University.

Why is Facebook so highly popular? There are many reasons for its popularity. Firstly, it is free and has an easy to use interface that allows the least internet savvy individual to access it. It’s many features, attributes and customization makes it different from the other many social networking sites that existed before it. For example, after signing up, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with friends and other people alike. It allows users to add friends, send and receive messages, upload and share pictures and photos of events, videos and clips, websites and links and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Facebook has become a very important medium of communication for many people around the world. For instance parties, events, meetings and appointments have been organized using Facebook. All these helped to increase the popularity and versatility of the website. And now to the bitter and sweet side of Facebook. The next and very important question is what are the merits of using Facebook? Though many will beg to differ, Facebook like everything human ingenuity has created has its merits and demerits. The versatility of Facebook is undoubtedly evident. It has helped re-unite many long lost friends and acquaintances. Millions of messages are sent and received, pictures and photos shared, details and profiles viewed every minute of the day between friends. Many people are thus brought into contact with one another to interact, share ideas, information and the opportunity to meet other new people every day.

Old acquaintances keep in touch and are constantly aware of the progress and happenings in the lives of their friends. In the process the site also helps to build and strengthen social cycles among diverse cultures, and across wide ethnic and racial lines thus ensuring global integration and healthy relationships in the cyber world and the world in general. This is an amazing achievement considering that Facebook is only five years in existence. Speaking from experience, I have been able to meet and interact with many old classmates who now live thousands of miles away from me. It has been an absolutely wonderful experience.

However, all the good things have a bad side. It is a common fact that all human inventions have been known to have some bad points due to some inherent weaknesses or loopholes often preyed upon by evil doers and opportunists. Sadly, one of the many demerits of using Facebook is that it can often be time consuming. Many children get addicted to using it and spend many hours chatting and interacting with other users. Even adults are found to steal valuable office time at work to check updates on Facebook and the updated statuses of their mates and friends.

In summary, Facebook is just like other internet social websites has many advantages and disadvantages. As enumerated, the advantages are numerous and so are the drawbacks. It has been branded the “perfect time waster” for children as well as adults, which explains why it has been banned at many places of work. Besides all these, Facebook remains a wonderful addition to the process of social networking on the internet, it is here to stay. At last it is a perfectly good way to waste free time, when engagements permit the user. Final verdict, Facebook is networking extraordinaire, it is the future of socializing on the internet – It is the “Face of a Sociocyberbook”.

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