Social Networks

Social Networks

1. Advantages

   • Easy for everyone to create a personal page
   • Easy way to keep in contact with people
   • Easy way to make new friends with similar interests
   • You can post interesting things about yourself
   • Often free to join and use
   • Easy way to share different types of information, for example video, and to organise pictures.
   • Efficient way to communicate with a lot of people
   • Moderators help to prevent inappropriate posting

2. Disadvantages

   • People can waste a lot of time
   • Some people create fake profiles
   • Loss of privacy
   • Online bullying
   • Posting content such as compromising photos may prove embarrassing
   • GPS Tagging may be a risk to users' safety if their location is given away
   • Inexperienced users may give away personal details that risk their personal safety or security (for example identity theft)