With Any Negative, Comes a Positive

With any negative criticism, there comes positive.  No matter the topic, they’ll remain two or more sides holding opposing opinions, in which each viewpoint encompasses evidence, reason, and debate providing credibility. 

In Facebook’s case, there’s been those critiquing the site as a ‘filter bubble,’ as previously explored in my blog, and those critiquing Facebook as balanced and fair; they perceive it as simply filtering information that we would most likely care to be updated, on the most consistent basis.  That is, whether or not there’s components such as ads and news that should receive greater emphasis, at the end of the day, this generation will get worn-out with posts that aren’t more personal and less relative-and more times than not, users would rather receive constant friend updates rather than more serious or professional matters.

As I’ve reasoned with the harsh criticism, I reason with the optimistic.  Though critics have warned Facebook, I feel Facebook is concentrated on the more youthful, less solemn opinions due to their most frequent usage; no young adult who’s uninvolved with media matters will desire to request a more editorial timeline.  Considering this, whether or not more information such as news-reporting should be implemented, the vast majority of users don’t want that, and the site wasn’t originally created for that, so why would Facebook change that and risk losing its audience and purpose?