Facebook hits 500m user milestone
in recent years social networking has gained a significant rise in the number of people using these features and this is shown by the dramatically high amount of people using this site facebook. This means that friends and family can easily keep in touch or contact each other when required or just when in the mood for cha depending on your scenario. This boom in interest does however supply the fuel for its own problems, as it enables unknown individuals to effectively stalk your profile without you knowing , and as more people sign up the percentage of these kinds of people will increase, which causes the issues of not having enough privacy, or in fact having to much applied.
Instant messaging: This conversation is terminated
It appears that despite an initial rise in the use of instant messaging as a result of the speed in sending and receiving text over the internet there has been an increasing downfall over the last two years in its usage. Widely tipped to be a replacement of email for is fast efficient service it was a mainstay of teenagers and office staff during free time yet there appears there were flaws in the idea of the service. One reason for its decline could easily be the general format of it, as it is of a very “chatty” and informal basis, thus the users would still prefer to send formal messages by email as a look of education and respect. Another reason may be that you must remain at your computer to use the service, where as if you text someone you can send and receive messages from anywhere as long as you have your phone on you. What I believe to be the main reason for its downfall however is facebook. More and more people spanning through all generations and nations are using facebook each day. This not only offers a way to their clients of messaging people, but facebook has its own built in instant messaging system , which not only from personal experience , but from the experiences of fellow colleagues, I know is much more simple than having to sign into a different messaging service in a different browser. This leaves the instant messaging service lacking in users as they are all on facebook.
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