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Facebook is great platform for having a social network. It is so far the best plat form out there which enables people to share information easliy. when people are living in a global connected world. Facebook platform becomes an important tool for people to share information at a speed of light. I use Facebook almost every day to know what my friends are doing in different parts of the world and it also helps me to do effective communication with all of them instantly.

If life were to be so simple then nobody would have compalined about the Facebook. But i see totally different social structure in real world.you might have friends who you know them in student life, work, college and also through another friend and since then you might have never met. Now suddenly you are connected through Facebook and can instantly interact.
In your mind you have the same old picture and memories of that person. but because the time has past by, he might have a changed a lot.He might NOT be the same old buddy who used to chat and share all the information as earlier. For some reason if you do not know this, Facebook can be evil and can create more harm than good.

Like wise there are various things in Facebook where people sometime put a funny photo/video/comment and expect no witty answers on them. As we know the word "funny" is a relative term and varies from person to person. It would get misunderstood more often than otherwise. And things get worse when people are interacting from two different parts of world and that too in different time zones.

How should one handle this and what caution one needs to take so that you are socially responsible in the social networking platform.

1. Do not comment on anything/anyone unless you meet that person on day to day basis. Things can be sorted out very quickly when you meet him very next day.
2. In case you comment on somebody or some picture/video and if you do not see any response even after 24 hours just go ahead and remove your comment immediately. This way you will be telling the other person that your comments was unintentional.
3. if you are in a habit of commenting then unsubscribe those people who do not want your comments. This way you can stay away from commenting on such people. (I hope Facebook provides a feature where you can get a stream with no comments option). if required if you can always go to their profile anytime time and see what they are doing and also send messages.
4.Sometime if you feel like commenting but do not want to comment because of the above issues. Just hit the like button.
5. Even though Facebook is designed to stay in touch with all of your friends, in real life things do not work that way. Facebook servers as a better tool to interact with friends near you and acts as a address book/email system/news feed for distant friends.

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