Social Media Connectivity: Facebook Report - Features and Issues

This report examines Facebook, a prominent social media platform, covering its features, advantages, and disadvantages. It discusses the platform's origins, its functionalities like status updates and friend requests, and its role in facilitating communication and information sharing. The report also addresses the challenges Facebook faces, including data breaches and security concerns, highlighting incidents where user data was exposed due to vulnerabilities. Furthermore, it explores the impact of Facebook on society, analyzing both its positive contributions, such as enabling awareness campaigns, and its negative effects, such as potential addiction and privacy issues. The report concludes by evaluating whether Facebook is a net positive or negative force, emphasizing the need for responsible usage to maximize its benefits while mitigating its risks.

Running head: Social media connectivity
SOCIAL MEDIA CONNECTIVITY- FACEBOOK
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The social media platform is used for the purpose of sharing the data and ideas with a huge
number of people. Different types of social media are: bookmarking site, micro blogging, blogs,
social news and social networks. It ensures that the idea sharing can be done effectively. The
social media platform helps in creating pages and blogs for the purpose of attracting users.
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The different types of social media platforms that are available nowadays includes facebook,
instagram, twitter, snapchat and youtube. With the help of these platforms it becomes easy to
interact with huge number of individuals throughout the world. The social media platform that is
selected for this assessment is facebook.
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Facebook is one of the social media platform that is used for the purpose of connecting with the
people. This was developed by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellowmates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. In the year 2004 this was founded by
Mark Zuckerberg for the purpose of enhancing the performance.
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Facebook is a social networking website that allows people from different region to connect so
that they can share their ideas and thoughts with their closed ones. This works by allowing the
registered users for creating and uploading the photos.
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For accessing the Facebook features it becomes essential to create a valid profile.
The profile is created by providing name , phone number and email id.
After this the user can access the data from anywhere with the help of internet connection.
User can upload , download , share information and videos in facebook and can send friend
request.
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Facebook is used for the purpose of creating awareness among the people about a particular
product and event. This is also used as a platform for sharing the feedback on some unfair
justices. This has helped a lot in gaining support from millions of people.
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Facebook addiction has increased among the youth and that has impacted their overall
performance. Thus it becomes essential to implement proper measures that will ensure better
performance.
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In 2019 around 540 million users record got exposed from facebook website. Cultura colectiva
was blamed for the purpose behind this leakage. It was identified that facebook was unprotected
on the passwords for 22,000 users.
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In the past years it has been observed that facebook has faced major data breaches in the past due
to improper security. They consequently faced data breaches due to poor system and security
management. Facebook faced data breaches in the year 2013, 2018 and even in the year 2019.
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Facebook offers a wide range of features starting from graph search to status updates, smart
phone integration. Poking is allowed with the use of facebook that helps in finding friends and
allows people to learn about their friends. They can share data online and can ensure that each
activity is being shared with their close ones.
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Facebook displays warning message when a user tries to get into a spammed link that turns ought
to be a spam. In addition to this facebook also offers two factors authentication that ensures
better protection towards the customer’s data.
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With the increasing advantages and disadvantages it has became difficult to justify whether the
use of facebook is a curse or boon for the society. However due to massive benefits obtained
with facebook it can be stated that people can be benefitted with the use of this social media if
they genuinely focus on the bright part of the application.