Facebook and its related issues

Facebook is an online social networking service which is extremely popular around the world. However, some countries still block the access to Facebook due to its potential threats which might imperil stability in all aspects. After reading my fellow classmate’s blog post, I believe that it is necessary to discuss this issue further in order to discover how marketing strategy of Facebook could be improved.

It is indisputable that some countries restrict the use of Facebook because of a variety of reasons. Among those reasons, I think that the most important one is the dissemination of information which could influence the government and people. Since people can readily post anything on Facebook to attract attention which consequently leads to massive awareness of a particular issue, it might be dangerous if unsubstantiated information is diffused online. If the background is that it is a big country with a lot of population, the consequence of conveying anything on Facebook is concerned.

It is indubitable that Facebook would like to augment its market share by expanding its business lawfully in some countries, but they need to make sure that they can abide by local law, rules and regulations. For instance, Renren is actually a very successful social networking service in a country, and it is essentially working in the same way as Facebook does. So, why is Facebook prohibited instead of being accepted and recognized by this country? I think that Renren is under supervision of the government and Facebook is hard to be overseen because it is internationally used. Therefore, if Facebook wants to maximize its profit by making sure that everything on Facebook is legal and ethical, it could be welcomed by some countries with some extent of supervision and control.

 

Source: https://blogs.ubc.ca/oliverzhang/2013/09/25/facebook-in-china-a-crack-in-the-wall/

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