The Book of Faces
22/01/2011 by JohnB.
Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, has just been valued at about $50bn. We hear often of the advantages of this website but what of the drawbacks:
- Advertising is targeted totally to you, how do the advertisers know about you and your likes/dislikes?
- Some people spend hours a day, searching for friends and updating their profile, it is addictive.
- Depending upon your privacy settings (most people don’t know how to change them) your entire profile is there to be read by anyone with a generic Facebook account.
- Potential employers and abusers look at Facebook to see what you are doing or have been up to. They can even check out your friends and family.
- How far are we detaching ourselves from real contact, in the real world some “Facebookers” would not have have any friends. Some claim to have a thousand friends plus, these types have definitely built up a psychological problem.
- Cyber bullying is rife at the moment and it is also so easy for someone to go off the deep end and insult a whole family group in one go. Or to threaten to kill.
Facebook should keep their money safe because I feel that maybe in the future someone will try to take them to court for allowing threatening and abusive behaviour and for giving “facetime” to those that have lost the plot.
