Abstract: Social media and Social Networks are an important part of modern journalism that their roles in globalized world and 21st century cannot be understated. Facebook is one of the most widely used and popular social networks in many countries. According to surveys India, United State of America and Indonesia are the three countries which have the most Facebook users.
In Afghanistan among those people who access to internet 95 percent have a Facebook account. Insecurity, corruption, instable governance, poverty, lack of initial life facilities are the key problems in Afghanistan people’s life. After Taliban collapsed in 2001 the new western backed government tried to solve the mentioned problem as possible but many of them is still as has been before.
Social Networks user especially Facebook users in Afghanistan are one of the biggest critics of government. Corruption, historic root problems like racism (ethnic Nationalism) and over mentioned challenges are the points which Facebook users always try to highlight the weakness of government for solving these problems. This controller role has its superiorities and deficiencies. For instance, Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic country and competing for role of state is an historic problem between ethnic groups, during elections the Facebook user are divided into ethnic groups and it weakens the power of central government and also break down the national trend.
In other hand the social media and especially Facebook has played valuable roles in counter corruption, civil advocating, women rights and empowerment, freedom of expression and many more. This mean is that, positive consequences of social Networks are much more considerable than negative one, which is amendable by making regulations and using frameworks.
Keywords: Internet Access, Social Networks, Facebook Superiorities and Deficiencies in Afghanistan, Self-Experience.
Title: Facebook: Self-experiences, Superiorities and Deficiencies in Afghanistan
Author: Qurban Hussain Pamirzad
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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