After I had watched the Social Network, I found that there are pros and cons of the invention of Facebook. As I am studying recreation management, I may organize some events in my future. Facebook is one of the good social media platforms to promote an event as it can cover a large group of target customers. They can like and share the event page. It is user friendly and easy to approach as well. When participants have question about the events, they can directly message the organizer instead of dialing or mailing. It is convenient for them. Moreover, People can get much information from Facebook and it can spread easily to draw attention from others. Furthermore, they can response to the event by clicking the button of “join”, “maybe” or “decline”. Thus, the organizer can have a rough estimation of numbers of participants by reading the statistics. Besides, if there are enough budgets for the event, we can launch advertisement in Facebook as well. The effectiveness may even greater than launching advertisement in MTR though it depends on the target audiences.
However, Facebook may weaken the relationship of human as many people nowadays keep stalking in Facebook all the time. They may neglect the importance of communicating with friends face to face or even they do not know how to communicate with others face to face. For instance, a group of people are having gathering but most of them keep using their smart phones to browse Facebook. It is meaningless to go out for a gathering at all. We should treasure the time of being with families and friends.
All in all, we should have good self-control on using social media. Everything has its own advantages and disadvantages. The point is whether you can grasp a proper attitude. We can be good at using Facebook for our businesses, launching events, etc. Yet, it may also weakening human relationship.