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Before reading on please be sure to read the rules of debating and also understand how NOT to debate.
So, this debate regards social networks, Facebook especially since it is the most popular one. The 21th century is a technological one, and with the many advances humanity had during its 10 first years, socials networks were created. There is no doubt that they have huge affect all over the world - there are over 500 million users in Facebook!! The question is, are social networks good, or bad?
Several things to think about are:
Friendships - Facebook can help us keep it touch with friends and make new friendships. However, facebook encourages talking to people through a computer rather than telephone/meeting. Is it possible it is actually harming friendships?
Privacy - Facebook gives us the wonderful ability to share with our friends... Everything. Photos, videos, thoughts, links, etc. But, this can be dangerous. A stranger can easily access our profile and gather a lot of information on us + (ab)use photos we upload. And even if we set our privacy settings properly (not many of us do), still if someone sends a friend request many times we approve (+1 to num of friends, don't want to be rude, and if it's a she, and she has nice pictures... )
Time - Facebook makes us waste tons of time. Seriously, I can log in for hours. Some might say being on Facebook is better than playing video games/watching TV etc. because you interact. But is it so? Is it really good for you to spend hours looking at photos and sending chat messages?
So, debate a way. Please relate to the topics above, or, and even better, think about new issues regarding Facebook/Social networks!!
Before reading on please be sure to read the rules of debating and also understand how NOT to debate.
So, this debate regards social networks, Facebook especially since it is the most popular one. The 21th century is a technological one, and with the many advances humanity had during its 10 first years, socials networks were created. There is no doubt that they have huge affect all over the world - there are over 500 million users in Facebook!! The question is, are social networks good, or bad?
Several things to think about are:
Friendships - Facebook can help us keep it touch with friends and make new friendships. However, facebook encourages talking to people through a computer rather than telephone/meeting. Is it possible it is actually harming friendships?
Privacy - Facebook gives us the wonderful ability to share with our friends... Everything. Photos, videos, thoughts, links, etc. But, this can be dangerous. A stranger can easily access our profile and gather a lot of information on us + (ab)use photos we upload. And even if we set our privacy settings properly (not many of us do), still if someone sends a friend request many times we approve (+1 to num of friends, don't want to be rude, and if it's a she, and she has nice pictures... )
Time - Facebook makes us waste tons of time. Seriously, I can log in for hours. Some might say being on Facebook is better than playing video games/watching TV etc. because you interact. But is it so? Is it really good for you to spend hours looking at photos and sending chat messages?
So, debate a way. Please relate to the topics above, or, and even better, think about new issues regarding Facebook/Social networks!!