Benefits. It’s very rare nowadays to find someone without a Facebook account— your parents may even have more added friends than you have; or your grandmother could have a higher level in Cityville than you. From Facebook you could have reunited with your elementary classmates and found out where they work or where they last took a vacation, or who ended up with who. Social networking sites give way for people to express their ideas and opinions. It’s an open wall for communication and sharing your thoughts.
Danger. However, it also comes with responsible use. You may have already seen several campaigns to watch out what information you give out in Facebook. Exposing too much of yourself can put you in danger— not only from the hackers or malicious people who exploits information; but also from people who know you. Social networking sites made the world smaller– it bring the world closer but with that, it brings the bad people closer to us too.
Responsibility. What you post is a piece of your mind. Your post describes who you are so be careful on what you shout out or what details you give in your account. You can always delete a post but you cannot take back its effects. Facebook was created to link and socialize— not to give venue to raise opinions that are better left unpublished to a million users; neither to give cyber criminals something to hack.
Of course, Facebook (and other social media sites like Twitter and Google+) offers various ways of security options like choosing who sees what and how much is visible to all but the first step to safer and worry– free use of Facebook is self discipline.
It’s everyone’s right to express what they want to say but like everything you do, it also comes with consequences or irreversible damage to others and worse, to your self. Using social media is a privilege and almost a power— it is up to you if you want to use it to build up or to tear down. Yet still, cliché as it may be— comes with great responsibility.
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