Facebook is the most popular
social networking website. It allows it members to share knowledge, ideas,
creations, and feelings among themselves. This type of social networking is
beneficial in manyFacebook.
The number of those who create an
account with false identity is not less than those who are really what they
show on Facebook. There are many people who manipulate this social network just
for their personal gains. Even some individuals or firms have made it a professional
business to manipulate this social network. There are many applications which
allow direct access to user’s privacy and personal information. There are
hackers who manipulate the people bay hacking their accounts. There are people
with false identity and fake name and fake gender. They make friends with their
target individuals and try to manipulate them.
I remember receiving a message
from Stella Thomas form Dakar, Senegal. She was a woman of 22 residing in
refugee camp in Dakar, according to her. She had sent me friend request and I
had accepted it before she sent me a message. I replied to her and she started
her informal conversation with me. I searched about her and about refugee camp
in Dakar. There was no refugee camp in Dakar. Later on a learnt from various
friends that there is a group of professional guys who do this in order to take
money from people.
I remember that one of my friends
divorced his wife just because of Facebook; her account had been used by
someone else and she even didn’t know it. And her husband once opened the same
account and read all messages and bloody chat with other guys. That’s all.
Once, one of my friends had an
account with the name of a girl. He sent friends requests to my other class
fellows and majority of them accepted it. Then the game began. He made fool of
them and manipulated them in many ways. He played with their emotions and
enjoyed it. And in this fun, he had to lose all his sincere friends. This is
not the end of my arguments.
There are many boys who have
joined Facebook as females and are manipulation poor simple boys with real
identities. Similarly there are girls who have created accounts as male members
and are spoiling many of the real users. There are a huge number of such fake
faces on this so-called social network. There is no such policy or strategy to
verify the users’ gender and age etc.
You have to be careful yourself.
Be careful while accepting a friends request from any unknown or suspicious
person. Check his/her profile carefully before you accept that request. Make
sure that you know that person to some extent earlier or you know some of
his/her friends. Do not chat with some unknown person especially with opposite
gender. I am sure you can do fun with your known friends and you do not need to
invite dangers to you.
