--- title: "What are the advantages of using Facebook?" description: "What are the advantages of using Facebook?" author: "Manish Kumar" published: 2018-01-06 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32588/what-are-the-advantages-of-using-facebook category: "social networking" tags: ["facebook", "social media"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # What are the advantages of using Facebook? What are the [advantages](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300577/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-web-3-0) of using [Facebook](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44034/facebook-ads-how-and-why-you-should-run-them)? ## Answers ### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani Well, **there is uncountable number advantage of using Facebook** but it also depends on the purpose of what you are using it. Going through some reports and stats I found that there are around 1.71 billion monthly active users on this social networking site. **Facebook ranks 3rd on the list of the top 10 visiting websites in the world.** ![What are the advantages of using Facebook?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/42f5a362-b385-4274-a5d9-6354fdf61ea7/images/fead4c92-2763-4870-b0e5-eca752d611e5.png)**\**Talking about the advantage yes there are many advantages of using Facebook. \ **\****Connecting with a person** It’s considered as one the best social network **to get connected from a person no what matter how far he lives.** If he/she is on this social network one can easily see each and everything updated by a particular user such as pictures, status, things liked by him each and everything. Apart from **this, you can chat with that particular person by sending messages and even you can do video calls.** ![What are the advantages of using Facebook?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/42f5a362-b385-4274-a5d9-6354fdf61ea7/images/f2f55622-4883-4a03-85fd-99c2c9cf82cc.png)**\****Facebook live** Last year Facebook **launched live feature which enables a particular Facebook user to go live on Facebook** just by switching on his camera from his device.You can even promote yourself, your products if you want to promote business as surfing it provides additional **personal interactions** with customers. \ **Stay updated with news and information** Facebook has uncountable numbers of public pages which you **can like just by a simple click or finger tap.** The posts by these pages come in your newsfeed which helps you in things which are happening all around the world. ![What are the advantages of using Facebook?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/42f5a362-b385-4274-a5d9-6354fdf61ea7/images/0866dc6f-2d6a-443d-a38c-ce308b07cdee.png)\ Along with these, you can **even follow public figures you admire and can keep yourself updated** regarding they do. \ **Sharing views** Facebook is one most independent platform where you can share your views and perspective regarding a particular **topic, issues, and politics anything. You can share your own views** with a community you want to target ![What are the advantages of using Facebook?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/42f5a362-b385-4274-a5d9-6354fdf61ea7/images/4df24c7a-f58c-457a-b58c-91b2bf3b48a7.png)\ **For finding dates** This is a bit unusual in the list but it’s true as I mentioned earlier that there are more than 1.2 billion active users on Facebook and **that’s the reason people can find their friends and soulmate through this platform.** --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32588/what-are-the-advantages-of-using-facebook Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.