Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Networking Sites

Nowadays, there are a lot of peoples get use to the social networking sites especially for Facebook, Myspace and Blogging. Social networking defines as a web-based services or a platform as an important part in internet that allow individuals to have connection with each others.

Therefore, there are a few advantages and disadvantages that using social networking sites. Firstly, keep in touch and stay connection with friends and family. We can meet up with different friends from various country and culture in the cyber world. It can grab attention and concern by others users through updating status and new articles. For example: 'I involve in an accident just now.' Within 5 minutes, then there will have a number of users will post a comment after the status had posted.

Second is learning different culture and share the information. Social networking sites allow us to be more familiar to the peoples all around the world. With this, we are able to communicate in different language, learn others country culture and share the experience through chatting.

Next, the limited safety concerns of social networking sites. We cannot deny that there are a lot of fake identity exists in cyber world. Normally, the fake users will copy the picture from the original users as their own profile picture. Then, they pretend as the original users to chat with the peoples. Besides, we can’t escape from the risks that some of the users will hack and misuse the user personal information and may publish it in anonymous website for their own interest and crime such as you tube.

Lastly, most of the social networking sites will pop out many different kinds of advertisement that we consider as spammer or virus. This may cause an effect to the user and computer too.
As a conclusion, there are many others advantages and disadvantages for social networking sites. It should be no problem if the users didn't misuse it. These are the kind of skills that people need to learn in life. In weighing the advantages and disadvantages of social networking, it's best to weigh on the side of information. After all, the lack of it has always had a devastating effect on society.