FACEBOOK

I didn't really familiar with Facebook. After I read the articles posted in ADeC, I've learned that Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks just like Friendster and Myspace. It allows us to create our own profile, post photos and join social groups. Once we have created our own Facebook, we able to connect with all other people who also owned the Facebook.
In my opinion, the use of Facebook among students and teachers can bring advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages:

1. Facebook allows the users to post commentaries on something that they had read, seen and listened. They also can ask others to comment on it too. Teacher can use this advantage to ask his/her students to comment about what they have learned or something that they can gain from reading a certain text. Using this, teacher can continue learning and read their comments later.

2. Latest information and requirement task can also be shared and spread instantly with others and its save money and time too. For example, teachers or lecturers sometime need his/her students to prepare on certain task for the next class. So, they can straightly open the Facebook and post their instructions in it. On the other hand, students can ask any question or put forward their problem to be disscussed and read by teachers.

3. Among peers, students can use Facebook to share their thoughts, help each other in solving problems, getting to know new friends and their schools, and also helping in their studies whereby they can exchanging notes and examination papers.

Disadvantages:

1. Facebook can become a distraction to students whereby they will be less focus in the classrooms. This is something that teachers cannot control. It needs some self-motivation from the students' side to not using this Facebook during class hour so that they can totally focus on the lesson.

2. If the students and teachers are becoming too fond with Facebook, it will create a school community that is not healthy. Supposedly, the school is a platform that encourages the students to involve in social relationship and to communicate verbally with each other. If the Facebook is become the most prominent way of communication, then there will no more effective communication and the students will not develop the skill of socialization.

All in all, it takes two parties, both teachers and students commitment to decide to what extent they should use the Facebook and in the same way using the Facebook as a tool to enhance learning.