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Facebook has become one of the largest social networks on the internet. There are, however, many pros and cons about joining this networking system. Facebook can be described as a positive way of joining everyone you know into one area and then easily communicating with them. On the other hand, this may cause communication issues because it is hard to portray a tone of voice through the internet. It causes confusion for the reader to know what was really meant by the comment, which can cause fights between the two or false statements that may then be repeated and spread. Another problem that this may cause is a writing issue, which is people abbreviating online or through texting or spell things incorrectly. If these people are not being corrected, even in just a simple social area, this bad habit can spread into their professional life where mistakes like spelling and grammar are costly. Of course this is not a problem because facebook is a whole entity on its own and people do not necessarily use the same language that they use on the internet or through text in real life so it should not really effect anyone in that regard. Because facebook is such an easy way to communicate, it also causes people to become lazy or less interested in their friends, which is a terrible trait for people to start taking upon one’s self. Another major problem with facebook is a privacy issue. Anyone at anytime can post anything about themselves on facebook. Now, this is not really a violation of privacy because that person is posting it by him/herself. However, facebook also contains "news feeds" where everything that a person is doing on facebook is posted on a main page for anyone to see without their consent. Included with posting whatever the person wants to post about themselves, they can also post anything they want about other people, which can include false information that can quickly spread. The positive side to these posts is that they also help spread important global information, for example about the upcoming election. This even helps members of facebook learn more about politics and what is transpiring in our current world.
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I agree with Atara that Facebook has both pros and cons. However, due to it's unparallelled ability to connect people all over the world I think the good outweighs the bad.
I agree with the pros of Facebook but i disagree with the statement that it can cause problems with spelling and grammer in daily life.
it is just a good way to be a socially active person.
I definitely agree that you cannot express tone of voice by typing. However, this problem can be solved by uses words such as lol, which means that you think that something is funny. As for the comment that people spell things wrong on the Internet when texting people, or when messaging people, I don’t agree with that at all. I find that when a lot of people take notes in class, they do not always spell things correctly, and often times, they also use a lot of shorthand. If you are constantly writing like this, then yes, it will be a problem like you said, but NOT only because people are writing to each other over the Internet.
I think that privacy on the computer is a big issue nowadays, not only with Facebook, but also with any Internet site out there. You have to be very careful with how much information you put out onto the web, because anyone can hack into a website and/or use one of your friends accounts on something like Facebook, and get all your personal information that you put on the site. Because of this, I feel that having an account like Facebook, can in some ways be asking for trouble.
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