SPD4290 Facebook is gaining popularity

Facebook, one of the Online social networking which being popular in recent year. It is a free access social networking. People join Facebook organized by city, workplace, school and region to connect and interact with their friends, colleague by sharing similar interests or who have common backgrounds.

As mentioned, Facebook can allow people to add freinds; you can send message, you can up-dated your personal profiles, upload photos, share links and exchange other informations. Facebook users can see only the profiles of confirmed friends and the people in their networks.

Besides that, there are many games like restaurant city, happy farm etc which enhance your bonding with your friends; as you can create your own album, your friends can click into your album and make comments on your photos. Facebook also act as a blog, you can communicate with the society in anytime, anywhere. You also can create a group, fan club etc. Facebook also can link you to someone who you may know but haven’t contact for a long time, it has a strong bonding between people.

Even Facebook is a great online social network, consider social networking in cyberspace the same as our network of friends in real life, but online you are exposed to additional risks. These risks include: loss of privacy, identity theft, cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, access to inappropriate content or even child abuse, bullying and stalking. We have to protect our personal data to prevent any personal risks.


Link: http://www.infosec.gov.hk/english/youngsters/safe.html