FACEBOOK IS A MOST USEFUL IN WORLD OF SOCIALNETWORKING.

FACEBOOK IS A FOUNDER OF Mark ZuckerbergEduardo SaverinAndrew McCollumDustin MoskovitzChris Hughes

Facebook, being one of the most famous social networking sites comes with its own pros and cons. Here in this article, I will try to show some of the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook

Facebook has helped a lot to create a personal brand for many individuals and for businesses. Moreover, it ’s a major source of entertainment for people around the globe. Since, Facebook is a global social networking site available in various languages, country and language is not a barrier. Also, with the Facebook translation feature, you will never miss out on connecting with Facebook users from different countries and with people who speaks different languages .

The Advantages of Facebook:Facebook, with 900+ million active users, holds a great deal of advantages. You can use it for your personal growth, professional growth or none the less you can use it to find a job for you. As I mentioned above there are many advantages and disadvantages of Facebook, Solets start with some of the advantages of Facebook.

Facebook for Networking:Facebook is the most powerful social media and social networking site. You can use Facebook to connect with your family, friends, work colleague and to meet new people. This is the best way to find your school, college or any other old profile. Most of the people who know how to use a computer and internet, have a profile on Facebook

Facebook for Dating:Facebook is also famous for finding a date.  College student and youngsters are using Facebook for dating and to make new friends. Indeed, with a social networking powered by over 900+million active users, it ’s easy to find a date for yourself that shares common interest and hobbies. This way, most of the time you don’t get into the issues of in-compatibility.(Most of the time.)

Facebook video chatting:

Facebook can also be used as video chat tool. Recently Facebook implemented Facebook video chat feature in partnership with Skype, and now you can make video calls to your friends using the Facebook inbuilt video chat app.

Facebook as an Image or video hosting site:

You can also use Facebook as an image or video hosting site.

Facebook as source of information & news:

Talking about positives of Facebook, it ’s a real-time social networking site and it’s one of the best sources to stay updated with latest news and updates. Major news usually goes viral on Facebook and you will not miss important updatesFacebook as personal portfolio:

Facebook timeline gives a completely new look in terms of your personal profile branding. With the Facebook timeline cover, you can easily create your first impression

The disadvantages of Facebook:Facebook privacy:

One of the major concern and disadvantage of the Facebook is to do with Facebook privacy. In the past, it has created many buzz due to sudden changes in Fb privacy settings but now Facebook has simplified it’s privacy setting. Due to ignorance and lack of understanding of Facebook privacy feature, people make many mistakes.  Another situation to consider has to do with the availability of information too personal, whether in video, pictures or text. Never give out too much personal information. As throughout the Internet, we should bear in mind the privacy of your personal data, because after they are placed online lose your control.

Private status published as Publicly:

One of the most prominent disadvantages of Facebook is your privacy on Facebook. Later on Facebook simplified the Facebook privacy, but still many newbie make mistakes by publishing private images and status update publicly.

Fake Facebook profile:Facebook is full of fake profiles of girls and guys. You will find tons of fake Facebook profile with beautiful profile picture of a girl. There is no limit to such profile, and most of them are created by stalkers or by marketers to gain more friends and use it for their marketing purposes. There are many ways by which you can find a Fake Facebook profile, which we will cover in upcoming article.

Not using Facebook list feature:

Many users still don’t use Facebook list feature which is very helpful to keep your status updates targeted to specific friend list, like College friends, Office friends and so on.

Time-consuming:Of all the Facebook disadvantages, I believe this is one of the major reasons why people deactivating or delete their Facebook profile. Being, one of the best way to know what your friends are up to, people spend too much time on this social networking site.

Conclusions:Weighing the scales as well, where we put the  advantages and disadvantages of Facebook, we can conclude that, If Facebook is used in the right proportions and with proper care, It can be a powerful tool for marketing and networking. Specially, for any online or offline business, one can leverage the power of Facebook for success of their business.

Whatsapp had become the largest messaging platform all around the world.

Whatsapp Inc. was founded by Jan Koum and Brain Acton,

. Whatsapp was initially started for Android mobile devices and soon come over to Windows, Symbian, iOS, Blackberry OS. This further helped it to increase its popularity through out the world. It is processing more than 30 billion messages everyday and this made Facebook- the largest social networking website to purchase this application at a handsome price of US $19 billion on 19th February, 2014. Facebook will generate a good business out of and will compete with other messaging app vendors without too much effort.

Advantages of Using Whatsapp

Some of the great advantages of using Whatsapp are:

·        You can easily send free messages to any part of the world without any charges. This service is completely free.

·          All tools provided by Whatsapp are very easy to use.

·                 It do not have any advertisements on display screen.

·          This app automatically imports the contacts from your phone and tells you that how many of your friends are using Whatsapp.

·            You can share your location, photos, status with your friends.

·            You need not spend any money for chatting and sharing with your friends.

Disadvantages of Using Whatsapp

Everything having a plus point also has some negative points too. So here are some of thedisadvantages of this brilliant app:·     You can chat to friends that only have smart phones supporting this application and to friends having their account on Whatsapp. You can just send 100 messages in a month to friends not having Whatsapp on their phone.·  You must have access to internet to send and receive messages for free and the messages are also not sent to the phone inbox.·          You need to pay $0.99 for renewal after every year.·          You cannot call using this app to your friends for free.

Your profile picture is visible to every person having your contact number and using this app, whether known by you or not. 

Disadvantages of Using Whatsapp

Everything having a plus point also has some negative points too. So here are some of thedisadvantages of this brilliant app:·     You can chat to friends that only have smart phones supporting this application and to friends having their account on Whatsapp. You can just send 100 messages in a month to friends not having Whatsapp on their phone.·  You must have access to internet to send and receive messages for free and the messages are also not sent to the phone inbox.·          You need to pay $0.99 for renewal after every year.·          You cannot call using this app to your friends for free.

Your profile picture is visible to every person having your contact number and using this app, whether known by you or not.