Why Should People Use Facebook?

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MANGUBA, Raphael Alexandre S.
7-Marian

“Why Should People Use Facebook?”

Approximately, 400 million people use Facebook nowadays. Social networking, particularly Facebook, is now widely used as a pastime, hobby, or as recreation. Some people think that using Facebook isn’t really advantageous and helpful. But to my way of thinking, there are actually several benefits in being a Facebook user.

Self-confidence. People can gain social confidence from communicating with other people online, which gives them more safety in facing new encounters and situations. For instance, meeting new friends, first day of school, joining organizations or clubs, and many more. Another convenience of using Facebook, is that it helps a person interact with his/her family, relatives, and friends more often. Facebook connects people with their families. Relatives who are far from each other can still keep in touch through video calls. For some, they browse on their old friends and recall on their memories together through chatting. Facebook also allows you to post anything on you wall. You can tell your friends how you feel, and they too are also free to respond on this through commenting. By means of posting, you can also know the latest news of your other friends, latest news in your place, as well as news around the world. One more advantage is that it helps people become well-known with recently developed technologies, furthermore, it helps people to proliferate their media literacy by being exposed to varying kinds of virtual media which are shared by their friends.

As I see it, social networking will be a greater benefit in our lives. Everyone will be interacting and be more confident of themselves. The world will soon be connected and will help destroy the boundaries of humanity.