Facebook's Impacts on Society

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Social networking is the use of a particular site that provides people with the chance to communicate with other users through messages, videos and etc. The popularity and increase of this technology has led to many increases of freedom and sharing. At first, AOL’s Instant Messenger allowed people to only communicate with each other through messaging. However, over the past years social networking sites such as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook have expanded the multiple ways of communicating with other peers by being able to send text, images, videos and many more. One of the most popular social networking sites is Facebook. Facebook has increased exponentially from 2005 to 2012. Also, Facebook is able to connect people all around the world and encourages the communication between peers without any boundaries. Facebook provides people with the chance to choose the desire of what to share and who to communicate with. It occupies us with many applications such as chat-room, files exchanging, games and much more. Through Facebook, many people find dates, make new friends and also sell and promote products easily by creating a fan page. Despite all the advantages that are mentioned above, Facebook offers many disadvantages as well. Many users argue that along with the popularity of social networking sites, the dangers have increased. Facebook exposes children to a whole new concept of how the world evolves. Children do not have the knowledge that adults have gained, which leads them to post and share inappropriate content for their age without fully knowing the consequences. Even by using privacy options, personal information that is being shared is not safe. Therefore, children should not be permitted to use Facebook as it exposes them to predators, lowers social productivity and increases vulnerability to computer viruses. Child predators existed before the
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