5.2.7 Do you think Facebook has facilitated peoples involvement with movement?

If yes, in
your opinion how has Facebook impacted the movement?
1. Gathering people with similar ideology
Through Facebook its easy to find like-minded people by seeing their interests, and one
can easily connect with them using wall updates, private messages, and video chats.
2. Event remainder
Event can be created on Facebook. Events can be private or public. Private events are visible to
only people invited and public events are visible to anyone on or off Facebook. Facebook events
automatically send reminders to attendees when particular event is approaching helping to increase a
persons attendance rates on the actual day. This system doesnt let a person to miss the event in which he
expressed his interest earlier or agreed to go.

3. Massive support from both known and unknown person:

We can give post in groups or fan pages by seeking suggestions on an issue, or can create polls
where we can get support not only from known people but also from unknown people who are
not my friends but members of the groups or followers of the pages.
4. Sharing important issues
When information about an important issue is observed by a person, he/she can easily share it in
his timeline without additional cost of time, energy and money.
5. Creating group chat
We can make separate chat groups where we add or send message request to whom we
want and then chat can be continued within the group. Every single message is visible to every
member of the group and there is no need to convey the same message separately to every
person.
6. To know cause and effect of an issue

7. By reducing time constraints

The real advantage of Facebook is that its a real-time social networking site. One can go live
from the spot (where an important incidence has occurred) or can upload photos or videos from
the spot.
8. Social business
Social media has been a game changer in the world of social business marketing. Facebook
advertising, fan pages are very handy for promotional activities. Fan pages allow potential
consumers to engage, stay informed and share with friends.
9. Can easily take action
10. Easy involvement in Facebook

11. Motivates people

Many real life stories of successful peoples are shared on Facebook. These can work as
motivators for the frustrated people to remain strong against any odds of life.
12. Providing more information than mainstream media
In many cases mainstream media does not reveal all information or the information may be
biased. From Facebook we can get real and enough information about an issue or incidence as it
is a more independent medium of expression.
13. Creating a platform
The Facebook Platform is an umbrella term used to describe the set of services, tools, and
products provided by the social networking service Facebook for third-party developers to create
their own applications and services that access data in Facebook. Facebook as a platform allows
many apps developers to prospect their business through it.
14. Sharing ideas for a movement
Idea of a movement does not come from thick head. It is the job of a catalyst. Catalysts may
share their opinions or positions towards a system, plan of the government or social problem and
can try to go for a movement.
15. News and help run faster
The newsfeed plays a very important role in getting the information and post of humanitarian
support or any other help because Facebook fan pages and users are constantly sharing news,
photos and videos.
16. Freedom of thought
Facebook is one of the best platform to express independently anything. One can post
his/her own articles, opinions, blogs etc. on Facebook easily and uninterruptedly.
17. Impression by each other
By using Facebook as network one can improve his/her relationship and can do date with
interested people. So any one can take advantage of Facebook to maintain relationship.
18. Can know about information and increase awareness
19. By connecting many people
Facebook helps us connect and share with the people in our life. We can connect and find your
old school friends and college friends also we can connect with your relatives. Also Facebook
have billions users so we can make new friends on Facebook from different areas of world. You
can connect with people by using Facebook chat, messages, poke, group etc.

20. By knowing current issues

Facebook is one of the best sources to stay updated with the latest news and information. Major
news usually goes viral on Facebook. Bloggers and internet marketers can subscribe to popular
blog fan pages and keep themselves aware of the latest updates
21. Facebook works as a medium to raise people voice
22. People know the event very fast
23. Facebook is the easiest way to share information, people can gather information very
quickly
24. Facebook enables people to express their opinion and facilitates to learn together disperse
individuals to share a common interest
25. Unite people
It is an effective way to unite people. Familiar faces such media personalities, well known
professionals, business tycoons can use Facebook to unite people for a common interest or
against a common issue.
26. People get informed about the time and place and motive of any movement. The main
activists usually determine and communicate them to others through Facebook.
27. Helps people to come into a common agreement. Ignorance let people keep aloof from
coming into such common agreement. Facebook allows people to know more discuss about
related facts, issues and so they can easily come into a common agreement.
28. Easily connect a large number of people.
Facebook is a social network powered by over 1 billion active users. We can use Facebook to
connect with our family, friends, work colleagues, and we can even meet new people on
Facebook.
29. Make easy way of communication
Easy access and use have made Facebook an easy way of communication. People who
know how to operate a mobile or computer and have internet, have Facebook Profile. Even now
there is free Facebook facility which doesnt require internet connection to use Facebook.
30. Interconnects people in any common issue
31. Proper arrangement of the movement
32. People of a community can be easily gathered
Secret groups can be made for a community where the members of the community can be added
or invited. Members outside of that particular community can be kept outside of that particular
group. By posting on the group wall regularly, they can be virtually gathered though not
physically.
33. Facebook is used by the majority of the people
Billions of people are registered from all over the world so one can find all of his/her friends on
Facebook.
If no, why?
1. Waste of time
It is addictive. More than any drug and we more or less end up wasting our time and gain
absolutely nothing at all. Playing, Chatting all day, updating profile pictures, liking,
commenting etc. All of these are utter waste of our time.
People have been seen doing nothing at all on Facebook just checking other people's
profiles and sending friend requests etc.

2. Invisible actors
There are fake profiles and IDs. Now it is easier to create fake profiles using stolen pictures.
People often use fake profiles to insult or harass someone they don't like. Teen girls are the most
vulnerable to these activities. There have been several news stories about people, normally
students, who became depressed or suicidal after being harassed on Facebook. It is yet
impossible for the Facebook authority to trace fake IDs and block them all

3. No important impact on any issue:

As it is time consuming and less real, many people deny the importance of Facebook on any
issue. They believe that physical involvement is much more important than virtual involvement.

4. Indirect way of organizing movement:

There is a high possibility of success of a movement when the constituents are directly involved
with it. Facebook is an indirect way of organizing movement. Some give up by posting some
incendiary comments, photos or videos.
5. More talking but less performing
More importance is given on conversation than the objective of conversation. Sometimes it
becomes difficult to come into a common base for the participants rather it may raise conflict,
envy etc.
6. No proper guidance:
Guidelines are not attached with the every features of the Facebook. For example, people may
not know which private information he should share or not in the Facebook and as such remains
vulnerable to the abuses of information by miscreants, hackers etc.

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