Nearly one in four people worldwide will use social networks in 2013. The number of social network users around the world will rise from 1.47 billion in 2012 to 1.73 billion this year (Sumanik,2012) In today’s world social media are the main socialization agents. Most people, especially, teens use social media to stay connected with their loved ones, share their feeling, and entertain. However, since there are so many social media, Christians parents have a lot of concern and asks how the app is good enough for their kid before they decide their kid to use it. Facebook is a good social media because it is free has great security system to protect the media users from an online crime, and provides a real time connection with very …show more content…
Recent researches show that there are more than 700 million people who are using Facebook all over the world. (Thadani, 2010) Even though Facebook is very big and was launched in recent year the media has grown so dramatically. Facebook was launched in February, 2004 by the founder of Mark Zuckerberg and his friends Eduard Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. They were all students of Harvard University, and initially launched Facebook just as a means of keeping in touch with other students from their batch. ( Thadani, 2010). Facebook is a free app and every one can get it from apple or android store. To use a Facebook a person needs to be older than thirteen and needs to be a member by registering to the website. Once a person is registered and set up his/her account they can go on the site to check on their status, message and notification. The site helps people to post their feeling, on pictures or videos. Facebook is the undoubted winner over other top social networking sites like Myspace, Twitter and Orkut. Facebook is a great social media app.
Since Facebook is free everyone can down load the app and use whenever time it is needed and there is no any extra payment either to sign up or while sharing any post. Most things now day’s costs money. However, parents are not going to be happy paying any money for social app. Free social media is very good app for everyone is all economic …show more content…
A real time connection is the ability to talk with friend at the same moment even though both people are living in two different time zone. Without a real time, connection, a social media is nothing, but an old magazine, which nobody uses it to refer today’s date. I am an exchange student from Ethiopia, most the time whenever I miss my family, friends and people from my home, I tried to reach them on Facebook. It is very interesting how quickly the message reaches to them and they able to talk to me back within faction of second differences. Imagine using letter like in the past where the shipping by itself takes more than one two full