Facebook’s Impact on Human Behavior
Facebook is a social media networking platform located in Menlo Park, California. Users are allowed to create a personal profile and interact with others through uses such as pictures, comments, videos, and status updates. They are also permitted to engage in user groups composed of people who share common interests and goals. An individual is able to view all sorts of content through his/her personal news feed, which features other users’ interactions including status updates and posts. As of March 31, 2016, Facebook has maintained at least 1.65 billion active users monthly. [2]
Human behavior consists of a variety of emotions and physical actions. It is affected by an indefinite amount of factors such as …show more content…
A study from University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross claims that Facebook usage can lead to more instances of sadness and loneliness. Kross indicates in the study that “[n]ested time-lag analyses indicated that the more people used Facebook the worse they subsequently felt.”[7] The research was able to compose its conclusion based on consistent surveying about the participants’ relative emotional states. Given Kross’s statistical data, there exists a negative connection between Facebook intensity and satisfaction levels. As the participants used Facebook increasingly over time, their satisfaction levels declined. An alternative explanation proposes that envy is a dependent variable based on how often people used Facebook. Users who passively surfed the website were found to possess signs of jealousy towards others. Another explanation explores how people use the platform whenever they are feeling signs of boredom, distress, and/or …show more content…
“Facebook friends are supplements, not surrogates, to our social lives,” says Klinenberg.[6] He asserts that social media platforms should not be significant enough to cause a state of depression in
Facebook is a social media networking platform located in Menlo Park, California. Users are allowed to create a personal profile and interact with others through uses such as pictures, comments, videos, and status updates. They are also permitted to engage in user groups composed of people who share common interests and goals. An individual is able to view all sorts of content through his/her personal news feed, which features other users’ interactions including status updates and posts. As of March 31, 2016, Facebook has maintained at least 1.65 billion active users monthly. [2]
Human behavior consists of a variety of emotions and physical actions. It is affected by an indefinite amount of factors such as …show more content…
A study from University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross claims that Facebook usage can lead to more instances of sadness and loneliness. Kross indicates in the study that “[n]ested time-lag analyses indicated that the more people used Facebook the worse they subsequently felt.”[7] The research was able to compose its conclusion based on consistent surveying about the participants’ relative emotional states. Given Kross’s statistical data, there exists a negative connection between Facebook intensity and satisfaction levels. As the participants used Facebook increasingly over time, their satisfaction levels declined. An alternative explanation proposes that envy is a dependent variable based on how often people used Facebook. Users who passively surfed the website were found to possess signs of jealousy towards others. Another explanation explores how people use the platform whenever they are feeling signs of boredom, distress, and/or …show more content…
“Facebook friends are supplements, not surrogates, to our social lives,” says Klinenberg.[6] He asserts that social media platforms should not be significant enough to cause a state of depression in