Facebook is banned in Pakistan.

What is Facebook?
Facebook is a social networking website which allows people to connect to people from all around the world. Users can add people as friends, sent them messages, write on their profile, chat online and update about themselves!

Pros : Facebook is useful because its a website that people can talk to their friends, post their feelings and comments on their wall, friends can also comment on their friends' update. From there, a chat can happen as more and more comments from different people comes in. It is always interesting to read the comments that comes from different people. We can look at their point of view towards a certain subject. Users can also play games that are available in Facebook.

Facebook allow people of the same interest to join a group and they can discuss issues of their interest in the group. They can even put up photographs and viedos and share about their experiences. They can share pointers and views. Above all these, Facebook is free to use.

Cons: Through there are advantages of using Facebook, it also cause people to spend a large amount of time on Facbook. Students are actively using Facebook all the time, even during lessons times and this can disrupt their learning. Due to Facebook being so easily accessible, people start to abuse the use of Facebook by posting comments without being responsible for it.

An example of people mis-using Facebook can in seen in the recent Pakistan case. Facebook have been banned in Pakistan because of the creation of a group called "Draw Mohammed Day". Thr group encouraged a 'contest' of drawing caricatures of Mohammed, the highest prophet in the religion, Islam. I think this Facebook group is very biased and insulting to the religion.

Facebook should never be used to discuss religion or political issues as they are very sensitive. Discussion of such topics may easily arose unhappiness in the targetted group. In serious cases, fight or wars may occur in the country as people want to voice out and show their unhappiness. This cause instability in the country.

Hence, I strongly believe that every user of Facebook should be responsible for what they say. We must take into the consideration, the impact of our comments towards other people. Is our comment insulting or being biased towards any group of people? How would they react after reading the comments posted by us? All these are questions that we must ask ourselves before we post anything on Facebook. If every user of Facebook follows this rules and respect different religon or political views, we will not see Facebook being banned in another country anymore.

Written by: Chan Jia Yi