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VIEWS ON USING FACEBOOK

VIEW: TARUN SUJIT KUMAR

On the positive side of using facebook it connects people to other people who they have lost contact with after a long time.  It allows people to share information with their friends, who then will share it with their friends and so on. It also connects people who live in other countries and to people of many different cultures and religions. In my opinion the use of Facebook allows kids these days who are shy to speak to people in the real world to come out of this safe zone of theirs and communicate with others. In this present world everything is being socialised and digitized and this is an advantage to the new generation of kids who can use this as a learning opportunity to expand their horizons. Facebook allows their users to participate in ongoing voting and debates and various quizzes. Nowadays, it is seen that the younger generation who uses Facebook has a broader mind and more knowledge about the political, social and various other causes that are currently occuring in the world.

Facebook is a place where people can share their thoughts, causes, ideas and can then ask people who they are friends with to comment on whatever they have posted and let them give their insight to the person who posted it in the first place. According to me Facebook enhances the social skills of everybody, at any age. When this social media website is used in the right way it increases the self-esteem of that person and also allows them to be less isolated. Facebook is also one of the easiest social media websites to use in the whole world.

When new users start using it for the first time, the site gives them a tutorial on how it works and on what all features it contains. When people are bored and do not have anything to do Facebook is the number 1 thing that they check on their smartphones or laptops or tablets etc. Another good point of using Facebook is that the users and identify  people before accepting a friend request from a person and Facebook double checks whether or not the user knows the person before accepting or sending a friend request. When you become a Facebook user you have complete control over your account and can report to the customer service if needed.  This is my view on the use of Facebook in the current world.      

COUNTER VIEW: RICKY MERVIN STEPHENS

Facebook is one of the first few apps created to bring people closer to each other. Although a huge success, Facebook does have its downside. Most people might disagree, but students who are on Facebook tend to have lower grades when compared to those who aren’t on it. This fact is disagreed upon as in this modern age almost everybody is a user of Facebook.

Although Facebook provides a proper amount of security to its users, many users delete and create new accounts as their previous one had been hacked. Once a user’s account has been hacked, the hacker has the freedom of reading that account holders chats, is able to contact that users friends and also has the ability of using that holders pictures to create fake profiles.

Fake profiles is another drawback of Facebook as these fake profile users, use pictures and names of other people in order to scam people into giving them a sum of money, or create a fantasy with a user making them think that they are in a healthy relationship with them. In this modern day, fake profiles are used to get into relationships with different people and this is termed as ‘catfish’.

Facebook is also used in determining how well-known a person is or how good one’s social life is, depending on the amount of reaction reactions, likes and comments on one’s post, the greater is that person in real life. If a user has a healthy amount of likes, etc. on Facebook, he/she may not have a healthy social life in reality. 

The app is also said to be one of the main causes of depression among teenagers and young adults users, as posts put up by one’s friends on Facebook tends to create jealousy between friends and also sends people into depression as they think that they are leading a boring and unsuccessful lifestyle.

Facebook may have many drawbacks, but if used in the proper manner and if one’s life is determined by how well-known they are on social media, Facebook is still one of the most useful apps that helps connecting people, either living on the same street or living halfway across the world.