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Advantages and disadvantages of Facebook

What is Facebook?

Facebook is a social networking website where users connect with other people, post photos, chat with another person, post comments, share photos, and post links to news or other interesting content on the web, live chat and watch short-form videos. So in today’s post, we will see the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook, so read the whole post till the end to understand it.

Advantages of Facebook

Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site. It has helped a lot in cutting physical boundaries. It has many benefits for personal or business purposes, which are as follows:-

1. Facebook is free, and it is one of the best media for communication. It helps in connecting with different people from anywhere in the world as almost every person use it.
2. Facebook has experienced dramatic growth, it has reached over a billion users, and it is still growing rapidly. It can be very useful, but you should avoid getting addicted to it.
3. You can upload photos and videos to Facebook without any charge.
4. Facebook helps you to connect with the people in your life. You can easily connect and find your old school friends and college friends, also you can connect with your relatives. You can make new friends on Facebook from different regions of the world.
5. Facebook lets you connect with different people from anywhere in the world. It helps you to know more about the culture, values, customs and traditions of other countries of the world.
6. Many people use Facebook Chat, especially for student group discussions, while some businesses use it for small meetings. It provides a simple and small chatting application that you can use to chat with your friends.
7. Through Facebook, you can sell any product or promote products or services.
8. Facebook provides many gaming and other features, that you can use and enjoy like, photo editing, horoscope, stock analysis, while some people use Facebook just to play games.

Disadvantages of Facebook

1. If you use Facebook for social networking or other services, you may risk theft of your personal information such as name, address, credit card number therefore, unscrupulous people may access this information through unsecured connections and can access your details to their advantage, and it can create many serious problems.
2. Some people use Facebook for spamming. Spamming refers to the bulk sending of unwanted emails that serve no purpose and unnecessarily disrupt the entire system. This can be very frustrating for you as it slows down your internet. 
3. Pornography is the biggest disadvantage of Facebook, which allows you to access and download millions of pornographic photos, videos, and it can be harmful to children and teens, and it can wreak havoc in the marital and social life of adults.
4. Many hackers have websites similar to Facebook, and they constantly send emails to people asking them to log in to their accounts to check new photos of Facebook. Facebook is vulnerable to attacks, and many hackers actively use Facebook for it.
5. Many pictures are uploaded on Facebook every day, and some of them are virus linked, and by opening those virus linked pictures, you put your data and your computer at risk.
6. Facebook is a useful and helpful tool, but it becomes harmful if you start wasting your precious time because the loss of your precious time can give rise to other problems, as you can comment, view pictures of others, play games or spend so much time doing it.

These are the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook. And, as we know that Facebook is the biggest social media site so we can also say that these are also the Advantages and Disadvantages of social media.

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