Discourse Community
Discourse community means that people in a certain group share specific rules and ideas that is common to all the people in the group. These rules should be observed by every person in the group. This groups have a common way to talk about their goals and ambitions. In every discourse community there are benefits and disadvantages which come about when one is a member of the group.
. Facebook is one of the discourse communities and I have decided to talk about it since I am a member. It is a social media platform that plays a lot of roes in the lives of people including myself. This community we get to meet people from all the parts of the world who followed all the requirements in order to join. These people are all from different occupations and this helps a lot in learning more about other people’s way of life and we get to obtain ideas that will be essential in bettering our lives. This information helps others to change their lives and be better and appreciated people in the community as a whole.
Facebook comes with a lot of benefits first; it is use for communicating (Hemphill et al., 2021,). It is the most popular means of communicating through social media. People use it to communicate with family members, friends, workmates and their business partners. People also get to meet new people there who may be of great importance and help to them. Most people in Facebook have profile pictures which help in easy identification of people who you have stayed for a long time without communicating and had lost contact with and know no traces of where they can be found. Through this platform you get to find people who will understand you better than you can imagine.
Secondly; it is used in relationships. People get to meet each other here and may decide to spend their lives together forever. This is because they get to find people that love what they love and have interests in things that interest them. With this similarity their bond grows and they decide to meet each other in person and know each other better which as a result that may date and even marry and create a family (Han, Feia & Fitzwilliams, 2013). It is also used in promotion of economic activities. These economic activities are so important to the wellbeing of the individual since it generates income. People are able to advertise their products and people who are interested may come to their inbox and an agreement is reached.
Moreover, it is also used in giving new updates about what is currently happening in the country and many other places. When any news pops up it will trend here where everybody will see it and everybody in this platform will be aware of what is going on. Products are also advertised here increasing their popularity. Facebook also has its disadvantages. These include the risk of getting addicted (Hemphill et al., 2021,). Many people who are using this platform tend to get addicted since they are tempted to keep on checking on the new trending updates communicated there. Some videos may tend to be of bad influence to people who are not supposed to view it. Most people get to take most of their following the stories in this platform wasting their time on things which are not so important to their lives. It limits people from posting some things which may be of bad influence and that may ruin their reputation which prevents them their freedom people are limited on posting things that are related on their kind of lifestyle and what they do for a living. They are not able to post things that interest them but they cannot post because if their efforts in trying to please their viewers.
Time consuming is also another aspect. This comes about since it has videos and games that are so interesting and captures the attention of most of the viewers. The members who get to play this games and watch this videos tend to frequent this platform to play and watch the videos wasting a lot of valuable time.
In conclusion, Facebook as an example of a discourse community has a lot of advantages than the disadvantages. It has helped a lot of lives and people are able to live better lives and as a result bringing about economic development. It has also greatly helped in education in the society.
References
Han, S., Feia, E., & Fitzwilliams, C. (2013). Perceived benefits and stress of Facebook use in college students. PsycEXTRA Dataset. https://doi.org/10.1037/e594812013-001
Hemphill, L., Million, A., & Erickson, I. (2021). How nonprofits use Facebook to craft infrastructure. First Monday. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i3.10265
