Facebook:
Advantages:
Facebook is free and since it has over 900 millions users it is the best way to communicate with other people. One of the other advantages that facebook has is that it is a great why to keep in touch with friends and family that live far away. With instant messaging and video chat, facebook is that perect envirment to stay connected. With status updates, photos and profile information it can keep you up to date on what it happening with your close ones.Facebook makes meeting new people extremely easy people due to that fact that it allows you to add up to thousands of friends. Because of the massive amount of users Facebook has, a lot of companies and other individuals use facebook to promote events and services. Facebook has a lot of opportunities for self promotion, making it great for anyone who needs to find clients and to get supporters.
Disadvantages:
One of the disadvantages of facebook is that it is a perfect platform for cyber-bullying. They can harass or even gang up on someone a lot easier than they would be able to face to face as there aren't any moderators around to monitor what people are saying. Facebook is also very stalker friendly. Someone who you don't know could add you and get access to all of you information, this may include your phone number and house address. They would also be able to go through all ogf your past photos without you knowing anything.
Instagram:
Advantages:
Instagram is very good at there privacy, the users have full control of their privacy settings so the risk of stalking is very low. If you change your settings to private, then if a person wanted to follow you they would have to request it. Also all of the person's photos and videos are blocked to anyone who isn't in there friends list. Instagram allows users to connect with other people through the use of photos and videos, this can be seen as better means of communication as you can see what the other person is doing or where they are going. Instagram also allows people to follow your favourite celebrities so can have an insight into what their lives are about.
Disadvantages:
Instagram allows you to put location hashtags under any of your photos, with these two combined it can be very easy for people to stalk you as there would have a picture along with a description of where you are. Another issue with Instagram is with their new system whereby people can send photos and videos to each other as a direct message. This has been known to promote 'Sexting' as the senders know that no one else can see what ever they have sent other than the intended receiver.
Snapchat:
Advantages:
Snapchat has a lot of fun filters that people can use wether it is for a photo or a video and also, these filters are constantly update so there will always be something new to try out. The pictures that you send out only last for a maximum of ten seconds so people aren't really concerned about other people having a permament copy of all of their photos.
Disadvantages:
Although snapchat has tried its best to protect people and make it a completely safe app to use there are still some issues that are bug enough to make people worry. One of this issues are screen shots, when snapchat first started people begin to screenshot pictures there where being sent to them as the pictures would only last for 10 seconds. This became a problem because a small minority of people had started sexting through snapchat as they though that no one would be able to get a permanent copy of the picture that they have sent. To combat this snapchat had put in a feature that would tell the sender of the picture what whenever someone has take a screen shot of your picture. But this did little to help as some people created thrid party apps that would allow other people the screen shot a picture without the sender knowing anything about it.
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