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When I was studying in university, I had many foreigners studying with me. An Iranian guy told me that he was happy to use Facebook in India and Facebook was the reason he loved India more than Iran. Puzzled, when I asked why, he replied that Facebook was banned in Iran and Iranians outside Iran could use Facebook to tell the world about the atrocities committed by Iranian Government on innocent Iranians.
Enough to say that Facebook has been creating awareness in the world. Recently there have been many cases where parents of missing children shared the pictures of children on Facebook and people seeing the pictures informed parents about the locations where children were seen and such incidents have seen the happy ending of children being united with parents.
Facebook has creeped into the lives and minds of people. Today we cannot imagine a day without signing into Facebook. Many small businessmen are using Facebook to promote their business. Sometimes, a client chooses to do business with a company on the basis of how many “LIKES” the official Facebook page of that company has. Less popular music artists can publicize their albums on Facebook.
I recently did a research on the list of nations where Facebook is banned. There were only two types of countries in the list. One, the countries that have either miltary rule or the rule of kings that control everything with an iron fist and kill anyone they like. Two, the countries that claim to be democratic but behind the curtains, politicians and people in opposition to the government are arrested and killed in jail.
Some people are unhappy with Facebook. They say that it disturbs the concentration of employees in office. However, some people forget that there are coffee loving people who instead of focussing on work, sit all day sipping coffee. This does not mean that coffee should be banned. Thus, distraction from work cannot be cited to ban or shut down Facebook.
Some people who have the experience of being cheated on by their spouses who pursue adulterous relationships on Facebook accuse Facebook of wrecking families. However, I feel that if a man uses a Ford car to steal something, the victim of theft cannot blame automobiles makers for the theft. Adultery has existed in society much before Facebook originated.
A girl was a victim of sexual abuse and violence from her father posted her story on Facebook which was seen by her friends who called the police and got the monster dad arrested.
Thus, in short, I mean to say that the shutdown of Facebook would help only dictators, scamsters and corrupt people whose evil deeds would never be exposed. It was also deprive small businessmen and small artists from promoting their business and music, respectively. Therefore, a shutdown of Facebook is not a good idea.