Impact of Facebook on Society

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One might say that it is an age of information technology, but it will not be unfair to replace the term with social networking to a huge extent over sophisticated computer networks using internet protocol around the globe. Such as Facebook is the one most visited and acknowledged social network among others like MySpace, orkut etc supervised by few of the most elegant IT companies. Facebook among them is having immense amount of effect over society. I am going to discuss few of its positive and negative effects below. Essence of being not solitary Firstly, people don't feel worry about being solitary any more, since they have their profiles over Facebook. This is kind of an online real time community centre where they meet many people each day, and share things with them. Most importantly with Facebook they have choice of selection among people whom they want to be their friends or not. It is creating more opportunities to know about people in general around the globe their mentality and a chance of getting to know about different cultures by visiting their profiles and interacting with them. It creates big time social awareness about the matters going around the globe. Social awareness While they are interacting with people more and more every time they log in to Facebook, they find updated news of events everyday, which makes them to know about what is happening in their neighborhood or even at the other corner of the earth. It is shaping lives of people in a way such as creating mutual understanding about many events and issues of society. By a long way Facebook is probably the one source which is dominating about creating social awareness among people about the facts of society on issues which people are unable to discuss by sitting beside them, while they are busy in their jobs. Newly improved features and options at Facebook even allow them

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