Facebook - what is it? Easily explained

Overview of social networks: What is Facebook?

With Facebook you can connect with people all over the world. This is why Facebook is also known as a social network.
When you register on Facebook, you can send and receive friend requests. In this way you will build up a network of friends, acquaintances and unknowns with whom you can communicate.
On Facebook you can publish your current status, your location and your interests and share it with your friends. This works both in text and image form or with the help of videos.
As soon as your friends see your status, they have the option to "Like" if you like the status, or to leave a comment.
This creates an interactive platform where you can follow what your friends are doing and what they like. Facebook also offers several small games that you can play with or against your friends.

With all the advantages of a social network, critics often chalk up several points:

Data protection and copyright: Facebook has its own guidelines regarding the content that you upload to the page. These guidelines state that your uploads can be used by Facebook without restrictions. This is necessary on the part of Facebook in order to secure itself legally, but it leads to distrust among the user.
Data misuse: Misuse of your data is a fundamental danger of the internet. Here, however, the problem arises more from the users than from Facebook. Because Facebook is very easy to view, it is easy to access user-related data (place of residence, age, etc.).
Self-presentation: Another point is the changed user behavior on Facebook. In the original sense, Facebook was a platform for friends and acquaintances. But actors, teams and companies are also represented there on special pages. They use Facebook for self-promotion and blur the line between self-promotion and social network.