Nowadays, social media is growing rapidly. The most “giant” in the virtual world today is Facebook. Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Websites and applications dedicated to forums, microblogging, social networking , social bookmarking, social curation, and wikis are among the different types of social media. Users can update from second to second to seek daily and business information. In Indonesia most people already have this account, either from the artists, officials, teenagers, and even students as young as ten years old had already their personal account. Facebook has become very important part of our life. It helps us in many ways and also harming us in other ways. In this occasion, there are some advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook, especially for students. What is the good thing about Facebook? It gives students additional knowledge. To begin, Facebook is an account which can help everyone to connect with different people from anywhere in the world, include the students. It will improve their knowledge about other places, customs and cultures. For example English students can improve their English by using chatting application that is provided in Facebook. In facebook, students be able to chat with foreigner in other countries. Therefore, students can learn about how to speak English well. In addition, Facebook also gives the students the opopportunity to communicate with their friends very easily. Students can use Facebook for group study by creating a group only for studying. Students can share any information’s and learn about homework, assignments, exams, etc in that group.
On the other hand, Facebook also can bring bad effects for students. First, it regards to students education, students are more often subjected to reading