Facebook Advantages and Disadvantages

When MySpace arrived on the Internet's doorstep millions were excited to have a place where they could share and network with their friends. Facebook arrived on the scene and slowly began to steal market share from MySpace. Today the MySpace market is decreasing and Facebook is making new highs in traffic and user count.

Yet there are some people who wonder if the time spent on Facebook is worthwhile, its Advantages and Disadvantages have many thinking. As with every system there are the positives and the negatives, if you are going to evaluate the Facebook Advantages and Disadvantages lets take a look at some facts: Disadvantages: Facebook is becoming a place for long distance relationships with many people you will never meet, this takes some of the intimacy away from relationships Facebook addiction is becoming something that is a real problem; if you have any life at all you have other things to do besides sit on Facebook all day. Because of open and public nature of Facebook there is the possibility for being stalked online or offline, this can be highly aggravating! Terrible for worker productivity. If you are self employed Facebook can consume much of your time if you are not careful. If you run a business your employees may waste valuable and expensive time using Facebook. Let's talk about these people on Facebook who are labeled "friends"...are they really? Advantages: · Facebook makes it easy to find and join groups with similar interest and dislikes · It is easier to find old friends or new friends as almost everyone is on Facebook. · Facebook makes it easy to approach and meet new people · Facebook can be used to meet business contacts and for networking purposes With this information you can make your own personal decision on Facebook Advantages and Disadvantages. If you can avoid the negative aspects and build on the positives then Facebook will be a constructive social networking site in your life.

How to Embed Videos on Your Facebook Wall

As a web developer who works with a lot of video content online, I'm often asked the question "how do I embed videos on my Facebook wall?", to which I answer "Facebook doesn't allow video embedding in profiles but I'll show you the next best thing."

The reality of it is, Facebook has become far more popular than MySpace now and at it's peak, the majority of MySpace users had at least one video embedded on their profile, whether it was a MySpace video or a YouTube video. Now that these MySpace users have jumped ship to the other social networking site with the little blue icon, they'd like to have the same privilege of embedding video on their Facebook profile page. So how do you do it? OPTION 1 - posting the latest music videos on your Facebook wall and in your friends' news feeds find a website that supplies free viewing of the latest, most popular music videos by doing a search engine search of the following terms: - "urban videos" - "free music videos toolbar" - "grime music videos" find the video of your choice on that website and make sure the video has a "share on Facebook" button. If not, then go back to the previous stage until you find a website that enables Facebook video sharing click the "share on Facebook" button and it will open up a Facebook window asking you to log in enter your login details and click the "post to profile" tab... Feel free to enter comments that will appear alongside the video on your profile click "post" and that's it, the video is on your profile! It'll also show up in all of your friends' news feeds OPTION 2 - posting any YouTube video on yours or a friend's Facebook wall using the "share a link" method browse youtube.com for a video of your choice go to your browser address bar, select the entire website address (URL) for theYoutube video page and right-click/apple-click and select "copy" now log into Facebook and go to yours or a friend's profile click the "share link" tab near the top of the page, then right-click/apple-click and paste into the text box displayed click "preview" then "post" and VOILA... the video is now embedded on yours or your friend's Facebook wall These steps in option 2 can be repeated using various free video websites other than YouTube, as long as that website is an official Facebook share partner.