As for Facebook, nearly everyone knows about it, but not everyone around the world can use it. Like China, the government blocks Facebook start from the launch of Facebook. The official announcement said that this blocking action can keep the safety of both individuals and country, because Facebook was a potential threat to free speech. The government wanted to organize the social opinions as the popularity of China is too big.

As I known from the post of Sophia, China was about to change the blocking from Facebook in the future. I was glad to see this change. It can mean a lot to different groups of Chinese and both Facebook Company. Firstly, the most biggest change would be the dramatic increase of users. Many Chinese people dreams to have Facebook in mainland for a long time, and some of them even use circumvention to realize that. After Facebook works in China, I believe the social networks in the work really can connect with each other, and Chinese users could know different aspects of opinions in foreign countries. On the other side, the competition between social networks in China would be a big problem. I really agree with the ideas that Sophia said about this side. Some platforms, like Tencent QQ, Weixin, and Renren must be threaten, because they all have the same functions. In addition, the entry of Faccbook could also make many opportunities for those excess workers in IT. For Facebook, I believe it may get more stock from Chinese market.

Giyun (Sophia) Park’s blog post: https://blogs.ubc.ca/sophiapark/2013/09/26/in-the-news-facebook-is-given-entry-into-china/