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Facebook Information System
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Facebook Information System
Facebook is a social network providing people with a platform to share common goals and objectives as well as interest. The network has been providing people with same objectives a chance to interact irrespective of geographical boundaries offering many numerous benefits (Turel, 2015). Facebook is proof of a revolution where people have found a way to communicate using the internet. The users of Facebook are diverse with different people having different reasons for using the media. The characteristics of the Facebook users include the relationship builders, those that use it for the social networking (Rauniar et al., 2014). The second characteristics of the user are the window-shoppers who seek to gather information about goods and services they need to purchase or sell. The next characteristic is the town criers like the professional journalist with their virtual self being different from their real world (Turel, 2015). The last category is a majority which is the ‘selfies” who are the groups of people who post images and videos to create images about themselves.
Facebook has been increasing popularity with its features increasing every day. However, some features are the most common and frequently used, such as the photos, newsfeed, relationship status and timelines which have been used by the Facebook users (Rauniar et al., 2014). Facebook continues to improve its features from the demands and needs of the users.

Just like any application, Facebook is associated with both positive and negative impact on society. The positive impact includes giving people the ability to communicate from various parts of the world (Rauniar et al., 2014). The limitations include poor academic performance for spending a lot of time on the media, the rise in personal relationship problems and scam which flood the network (Turel, 2015). However, Facebook remains the most popular social media platform with easy to use the feature as well as negative and positive impact.
References
Rauniar, R., Rawski, G., Yang, J., & Johnson, B. (2014). Technology acceptance model (TAM) and social media usage: an empirical study on Facebook. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 27(1), 6-30.
Turel, O. (2015). Quitting the use of a habituated hedonic information system: a theoretical model and empirical examination of Facebook users. European Journal of Information Systems, 24(4), 431-446.