Facebook: The Dangers And Disadvantages Of Facebook Privacy

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Communication was improved a lot in our days which made our life much easier and faster. Humanity will no longer face difficulties in communicating with people from all over the world since with the new communication tools, a person can easily communicates with another that lives in the other side of the world in a seconds by being connected to the internet. One of the modern communication tools is Facebook. Facebook is one of the social media applications that connects the people around the world together, and allows them to know everything about each other by just clicking on the person name. Worldwide, there are over 1.55 billion monthly active Facebook, so Facebook built another world on the internet on its website with the same
people,
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One of the major concern and disadvantage of the Facebook is to do with Facebook privacy. Due to ignorance and lack of understanding of Facebook privacy feature, people make many mistakes. Moreover, we should consider the availability of information too personal, whether in video, pictures or text. A Facebook profile would contain the place of living of …show more content…
By referring to specific statistic, the average of consumed time (wasted time) on Facebook is 1 hr. and 40 min per day, which means that there is people that use Facebook more than 5 hrs. Per day, and this what we call addiction to
Facebook.
On the other hand, there are groups of people that do not accept criticism about the
Facebook disadvantages. They say that Facebook benefits are more than its disadvantages, in which they support their point of view with the Facebook role in networking, and its role as a source of news. No doubt, Facebook is the most powerful social media and social networking site. You can use Facebook to connect with your family, friends, work colleague and to meet new people. This is the best way to find your school, college or any other old profile. Most of the people who know how to use a computer and internet have a profile on Facebook. Moreover, it is a real-time social networking site and it is one of the best sources to stay updated with latest news and updates. Major news usually goes viral on Facebook and you will not miss important
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