Currently billions of people are sharing different contents on online media. As Facebook is onernof the dominant social media tools throughout the world, millions of Ethiopians are also using itrnfor various reasons including political issues. The objective of this research is to assess thernperception of Facebook users on violence occurred in Ethiopia from 2015-2018. The violencernhere is to refer the nationwide riots that occurred in Ethiopia and that seems to last in May 2018.rnTriangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods has been employed in this research. Thernqualitative data were collected from a Focused Group Discussion with seven prominentrnFacebook activists and some violence related Facebook posts by â€œEthiopiansâ€. 166 people havernparticipated through questionnaires for quantitative data and survey responses were analyzedrnusing frequency distribution and percentage analysis. Coding and analyzing of these data wererncarried out using SPSS version20 software. The result obtained from both FGD andrnquestionnaire substantially shows Facebook has been at the center of the violence by creating arnplatform to exchange information related to violence. According to the Facebook users, therninformation was basically instructional and guiding messages on how to protest in an organizedrnmanner. Peoples on the research have witnessed that there is strong relation between what hasrnbeen posted on Facebook and the type of violence on the ground (59.1%). Furthermore, thernresearch shows there is strong level of consensus among online users that the role of Facebookrnfor the consequent Political Change is immense by impacting the pace and space of the violencern(65%). The study also indicated that Facebook canâ€™t be considered as the cause of the violence,rnrather it was the main tool for the intensification of the violence using as a catalyst for the riot.