Facebook; pros & cons.

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I am 80% sure that some of you have facebook right? Well I do as well, however my question isn't about whether you use or have facebook, my question is how is facebook AFFECTING you? How have facebook influenced you?

What pros does FB have and the cons, why do you think after researches they believe facebook gives you an uncontrollable balanced in your life? Just think about it, 90% of all companies and social operations affiliate with facebook, there aren't many websites who decline facebook as their giver.

I personally think facebook can affect your total life-style so much you won't be able to go through a day without updating or posting a new status or tag yourself in someone's photo. Facebook is the new Myspace, in just a few years it has grown to a multiplied platform where EVERYBODY meets, maybe you met your boyfriend/girlfriend, fiance or wife or friend on there... which is a good thing...
Everybody goes around asking or referring a certain thing you might have posted on facebook. Even in family gatherings 90% of whats being said have something to do with facebook.

My pros about facebook has to be the social connection between you and your friends, spying and admiring their success or miss falls, encouragements and likes, you can easily dislike the performance of a status, photos or likes. You can easily choose people you want to connect with and ban.. but can you feel safe on facebook?

My answer is NO. That's where my biggest cons come to, even if you've posted a status about something and immediately erase it, it's still there but not visible, anything you've expressed facebook do not detach it, it's in theirs belongings and the minute you press to post a picture they have full power over it, they OWN the copyright of it. And no you don't feel safe on facebook, how many times in 5 years have facebook being hacked? Can anyone remember? I cannot even count how many times, recently they even INVITED HACKERS to find BUGS in their website. How can anyone be safe when there are professional hackers going into their system and find bugs? I mean seriously? That's why I disconnected my facebook for a while cause I cannot handle the fact and have the knowledge of being watched by people that have the ability to spread your personal data online. Does anyone agree with me?

I don't find facebook useless but sometimes you need to address yourself away from the madness and do other reality stuffs instead of writing which fruit or drink you just drank. Haha!
 
Hmm, no it doesn't affect me that much. I use FB just for few ppl which I can count on my fingers to chat to, and some FB groups where I look for updates or something.
I am mostly in MSN all the time I'm online. So MSN is pretty much my internet life lol.
 
Yes I know... but considering having some terrible things have happened in my life recently I don't feel safe on there for now... I will be back but it will take some time before I can feel I can be there again...
 
It definitely has its pros and cons. The biggest pro it provides in my personal life is the ability to easily chat with and meet interesting and awesome people. It allows me to keep in close contact with my online friends, whom I would not otherwise be able to talk to or interact with as often for obvious reasons. It also allows me the chance to get to know people i would not have otherwise either met or gotten to know to the level I know them now. Some of my FB friends are published authors, professors, reporters/journalists, artists, etc. not the kind of people you usually run into, so FB allows me to meet people with higher goals.

The con is, of course, adding people you actually know in real life. Those people are usually dirty and unworthy, and they can create a lot of trouble--certainly more trouble than they're worth. I've just recently emerged from such a situation, in fact. I made the grievous error of going against my previously established no-IRL people on my FB rule, and added my (now former) roommates and two co-workers. Well, as soon as one of my ex-co workers and I had a fallout, my idiot roommates joined the skanky ho in a bit of good ole fashioned cyberbullying, and Facebook unwittingly provided them a platform upon which they could act like five year olds, despite the fact they're all older than me.

Facebook has no way of controlling/putting a stop to these events until after the fact, so that is the main con it brings. I would say FB can be a very good and useful tool, if used well, but it can also be the source of much unnecessary toil. My advice would be to be careful who you add. I certainly won't be adding anyone I know IRL ever again--I don't want those people in my life at all. Being guarded is certainly an intelligent course of action.
 
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