How Does Facebook Affect A False Society?

Improved Essays
Do you remember your first friend on Facebook? Well I do, it felt like I just got accepted to the most prestigious university in the world. The Facebook University, where you first have to look at the person’s profile picture to accept them, even if you do not know them, the more attractive they are the more chances they have of being accepted. Everyone likes to see people asking them to add them on Facebook or having more than 500 friends on their friend list, because the more followers you have the better your university looks to other people. Facebook helps companies promote their business, help people, make new friends, however it promotes a false society; Facebook increases depression amongst teenagers and causes students to procrastinate …show more content…
Facebook helps people add friends by simply matching your likes, dislikes, activities, travel history, current employment and school enrolled with other people, from then on, as the adder you have a choice of whether you want to add those people or to reject them in fact, people have made friends on Facebook with people from different parts of the world, and making friends on Facebook has it’s advantages, although Facebook creates a false society, not everyone likes everyone and not everyone want to be friends with people from outside their society, but they do it, because they want to blend into the new trend of being diversified in the new …show more content…
The disadvantages have a bad impact on our society and they shall continue to impact on society badly. We need more solution to avoid the disadvantages created by Facebook, because our society cannot live without Facebook. The next time you log-in on Facebook and post-a-post please remember to double think about what kind of a message you are sending to the public, your status might save a teenager who wants to commit suicide, because she feels like she doesn’t belong or it might ruin someone else’s life, because they will assume you are judging them for not having what you have in your life. Use Facebook to make this world a better place and save someone ‘s

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The fact is that the online media and social networking sites tends to have nearly as many disadvantages as there are…

    • 647 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Facebook has been able to keep people connected with friends and family all over the world. Although social media has come a long way in the past few years, social media also has positive and negatives that come along with using the social…

    • 964 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As someone who has (quite happily) separated myself from Facebook, I found Manjoo's arguments ineffective, even when they manage to escape blatant insolence. From the first page “You Have No Friends” rankles against its intended target. Manjoo opens his argument with the sentiment “Friends – can I call you friends? – it's time to drop the attitude: There is no longer any good reason to avoid Facebook” (353). Which offers little to open the minds of those that Manjoo is trying to convince.…

    • 1375 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I personally know that Facebook does not bring anything beneficial to me, but that does not prevent me from using it. It makes me think about what I am doing with my life and sometimes decided stop using it, but other times, when I do not want to do something my first choice is scroll down Facebook to check funny videos or any new post from my friends. What I mostly notice on Facebook is that people do everything to catch someone else 's attention and this is because they do not find themselves doing anything else rather than entertain others. It is sad for me to know that the funniest people on my Facebook page are those who feel more trap to the social media and do not realize how they are isolating themselves from the outside world. As it is shown on Facebook, they seem to be the happiest people on earth, but as soon as Facebook is not part of their life anymore, they are consumed by loneliness.…

    • 1112 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Facebook: It’s Complicated Our lives with social media can be described as, well, complicated. People often find themselves in a heap of lies, misunderstood statuses or comments, and “friends” that aren’t even your actually friend. In Lauren Tarshis’ article, Is Facebook Making You Mean? she talks about how one simple comment on a friend’s Facebook picture or status can be misunderstood. Steven Levy’s article, Facebook Reset, describes how Levy wants a “friend-list do-over” (Levy, 2014, p. 169).…

    • 679 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The thesis or main claim in the essay “With Friends like these…” by Tom Hodgkinson is that we should reject Facebook. He strengthen his claim by saying that Facebook’s motto was to connect people, but he counter argues it and states that rather connecting more people together, Facebook is separating people. Hodgkinson also gives reinforcing examples when he states that people on Facebook creates a stronger sense of competition. People can create a profile by posting pictures or liking different stuff to make them more appealing to others. He is basically saying that we create an edited version of ourselves.…

    • 374 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A survey was used in this study and they found that excessive use of social media presents with negative effects on one’s psychological well-being. This study appears to run closely with what this writer is looking into studying. It leads to a great starting point in the research process. Yang, C., & Brown, B. B. (2013). Motives for using Facebook, patterns of Facebook activities, and late adolescents' social adjustment to college.…

    • 860 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Do you think Facebook makes people mean? Some people believe Facebook is bad but it's really not. Facebook doesn't make it easy for kids to be hurtful. In the 21st century Facebook has been a main source for teens and adults. It also shows the good and bad side of a person.…

    • 345 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Even though Facebook can allow people to connect and communicate with each other, I believe that it brings more bad than benefits. Supporters…

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Recently, many people are debating on whether social media benefits a person or not because of health issues and possible online predators, but with its increasing popularity, technology inhibits an ability to connect groups of people, spread news in a matter of seconds, and aid in education, making it a gain for individuals across the world. When Facebook was created in 2004, a tsunami of people used this new website. It allowed people to interact and reconnect with their friends…

    • 842 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Usually everyone check Facebook at least once day because it the way we keep in touch with long distance friends and family that you don’t want to call, but you want to stay in touch with them. Facebook is something that can feel and believe for oneself. It also relieves the burden of actually feeling the emotions directly from oneself. Facebook is our online profile that is the new and improved version of who you really want to be. That means you can decided what kind of person you want to be on Facebook.…

    • 782 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “The Great Forgetting” by Nicholas Carr and “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche tell stories of how technology can be great but there are some under lying aspects which can make it detrimental. Carr writes about how technology can cause some catastrophic events if it malfunctions and our reliance on it has made us observers instead of participants which is causing a decline in our ability to perform tasks. Marche talks about the benefits and drawbacks of using Facebook. He suggests that social media has potential flaws by affecting some people’s physical and psychological wellbeing, but does also have some positive aspects.…

    • 1089 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The article mostly focused on the need for social acceptance and how that related to the problematic use of facebook. People who don’t feel like they are expected in their everyday life turn to facebook to find friends and to always feel like they are accepted. The source was good about including the other opinion as well. It talked about that maybe there is an overuse of technology because it provides a channel for those with social anxiety disorder to communicate with others. I used this source to show that using technology too much has a negative impact on self esteem and many other factors.…

    • 1260 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    History Facebook is a well-known social media platform that has worked its way into our daily lives as a source of keeping in contact with our friends, family, co-workers, and even enemies. Although it is important to point out, Facebook has not always been what it is today. The company started in 2004 and was merely a questionable social platform which Niels Brügger (2015) described as “unknown territory.” (1. Introduction). Eventually people started to switch from MySpace to Facebook as their social media source.…

    • 1241 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The negative impact of social networking sites Social networking sites are programs that allow people to create an account to share or post information, picture, video, comments, and status with others. Nowadays, social networking sites have become an important thing in peoples ' lives. In addition, many people including teenagers use many social networking sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and MySpace to identify people who have common interests and stay connected. Almost all people use social networking sites because they can easily do all of our tasks such as our researching, shopping and also banking with the Internet. The most important thing is that we can access all information, just a click away!…

    • 1070 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays