The goods and bads of using facebook.

Facebook is an online network used for many around the world to connect and socialise with friends and family. In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg who was an attendant at a university in America, Mark along with the help of his room mates came up with the idea of using Facebook within the university, this then led on to other universities and colleges and then eventually it was allowed to be used by anyone over the age of 13. The user would be able to create their own profile, add friends and update their own statuses whilst receiving replies and likes of friends. I enjoy using Facebook because I am able to talk to friends via a group message for assignment information and also to help friends if needed. I find Facebook very easy to understand and I enjoy sharing my feelings with friends and family. Many more people use Facebook than any other online social networking site and I know that its got nearly 6 billion users in the space of 6 years. Facebook has many advantages but then this site may also be used inappropriately and could lead to trouble. Many young children try to use Facebook and will put their age to 13, these children are vulnerable and there are many others who make fake profile pictures just to get in touch with this kind and these children may be too young to understand and think the people they are talking to are just friends they have met online. Also as Facebook gets easier to use their are more ways and thoughts of making groups such as to bully and harass a certain user that is disliked by a group and many of these instances have led to suicide of the victim. It has been seen that some students results in school and exams have been affected by over use of Facebook as they are not concentrating as well as they should be and instead using the site. I think the intention of Facebook in the first place was for a good purpose and I use it as the way it was made, But to make this more of a safe site I think that maybe people should only be allowed a certain amount of time spent on the site and proof of age should be asked for so that less young children can get themselves into bad situations via the site. If this site is used for the right reason in the correct way then it could be seen as a good site to use.

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