The Facebook And The Negative Effects Of Facebook

Great Essays
There 's no doubt that Facebook is the most powerful social media and social networking site around now of days. You can easily connect with your friends,work buddies and to meet new people. Facebook makes it so much easier to find people with your similar interest as you by being able to seeing their created profile, about them, and you can easily connect with them through private messages and video chat. Even though Facebook is one of social networking hottest site today, it has many different effects people 's lives in ways more than one because it becomes an addiction, starts to have negative effects on a person 's relationship and requires a connection to be liked, while keeping an eye out for the many hackers looking to scam. Facebook …show more content…
Amy Jo Martin stated every time you post a photo, or update your status, on any social site you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand. We as individuals are allowing social media to change the way we communicate and the way we are viewed both negatively and positively. There 's no denying the fact that Facebook is one of many social media hottest sites! Many people rely on social media as a chance to view and send information to classmates, friends and family. While on the other hand, some use it an escape to be able to meet and communicate with various people around the …show more content…
The social network is no doubt a web-based site that enhance communication between people. Its convent and much easier for people to try to keep. Facebook can be a stress reliever due to all the benefits, but also consider the devil in people 's lives for all the negative effects I 've stated the negative effects of Facebook is because it becomes an addiction that allowed in our daily lives by spending too much time on it. If you can resist the urge to connect via Facebook, you have an addiction. Facebook addiction can lead to withdrawal but can be avoided with the signs that are presented. Spending time with family and friends can help control addiction. There 's nothing wrong with chatting here and there or even scanning other pages, but when it becomes a daily routine in your life that 's when the problem starts to

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    “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…

    • 1410 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. I see Facebook as a way to communicate with others and make new friends, and it is one of the biggest aspect of social networks but, is up to the user to manage how to communicate and how to build a circle of virtual friends that might or might not be able to interact face to face. Facebook provide us with a variety of utilities, but we have to manage ourselves on how to accommodate this tools on our daily life in order to have a balance and healthy…

    • 1112 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Lucy P. Marcus Connection

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages

    In this article, the author wants us to know how it is easy to get involved with Facebook nowadays. The evidence says that people spend hours and hours on it, doing nothing special. The writer once forgets to attend an important event because he was feeling Facebook is more important, like a job. He wants us to know how people have forgotten about the day today's life in order to spend more time on social media. In this article, his audience must be the people, who spend more time with social media instead of family and work. The strength of his article is the way he addressed how people should spend their quality time. I do agree with him at some point. Social media is certainly a great source for the relationship maintain. One can keep in touch with old friends and can make new friends. However, spending too much time on it is not worthy.…

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Some of the relationships I have been able to be maintained because of social media. I am able to increase the time I spend with relatives and friends. (STROM, Web) Skype helps me to video chat with my family and friends so that I can see them. I have been able to text, facetime, video chat, snap chat, used Instagram, and used Facebook in order to maintain many of my friendships with family and friends. It can be very exciting and fun to use. There are others that use social media to stay connected for the same reason. When we see people through social media, it motivates us to reconnect and stay connected with others. (Harris, Web) Social media not only helps people stay connected with friends and family, it helps people make entirely new friendships and form new relationships. (Harris, Web) People can meet others through social media, then meet in person, and have a strong…

    • 1727 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    It is a good way to keep in touch with some of my family members that live in another country. My grandma and other family members from Mexico stay in contact with me through Facebook. Although, social media can also be a dangerous place as we hear stories of online predators or cyberbullying. It is important to know the risks of social networking sites and be careful while using them. I tend to look through my social networking sites and waste most of my time instead of doing something more productive. I think that the world would go crazy if social networking sites suddenly ended for good as we are so attached to these social networking sites that it has become a part of our daily routine. I personally think it’s essential to keep a balance between reality and the online world on social networking sites if you’re not careful you can end up investing all your time on social networking sites and not actually interact with the real…

    • 1591 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Facebook has become a necessity for nearly all of the netizens, many websites started to provide an…

    • 1086 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    First of all, the privacy is really the most significant thing for the users of social networking sites. It is well known; users can share their personal information and their daily routine on their pages or wall of social networking sites. All of these data are often available information for other users that are added to be friends. Sometime, users share their location by posting pictures that have the address of their location and time. Also, users often post where they plan to go on a certain day. All of this information gives ability for burglars to plan stealing easily. According to consumer reports magazine, thirteen million users of Facebook site have no idea what is the privacy tool, and most of them share their posts with other that are not their friends on this site. Even users use the privacy tool; their friends could own their information and data and share it with other on a different site. Not only burglars can take advantage of social networking sites but also there is the most dangerous element…

    • 1070 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    A few might turn to social media to reconnect with childhood or former friends even loved ones. In Marche’s, “Is Facebook Making Us lonely?”, he is debating on weather Facebook makes us lonely or takes away our loneliness. Being that the use of Facebook is to connect with others Marche thinks that Facebook can repair our loneliness. He feels that being on Facebook interacting with others defeats our lioness. In reality social media can also pull people away from actually socializing. Social media has also been known to tear apart relationships and friendships. Social media can be used for the determined reasons, but the internet can also be and has been used negatively. Everyone wants to see the internet as a way to make life easier by connecting and sharing ideas with everyone, but that’s not always the case. Bennett stated, “anybody can become a celebrity or a worldwide villain in an instant.” Bennett made a great point that everyone should take into consideration. People are on the internet to share their ideas, connect with others and to become known worldwide but also there’s villains out on the internet that can change your positive ideas to a…

    • 1005 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Facebook can be related to the conversations and relationships that people form in real life. When a user is scrolling through the sea of Facebook statuses, actively engaging with others “increases social trust and engagement” (1). Even Valenzuela found that it “encourages political participation”, a topic that many people do not talk about (1). Whether online or in person, communicating and interacting allows both persons to create a positive relationship. Meanwhile, like Hana Krasnova and Beth Anderson both mentioned in the article, users who see their peers post an achievement will likely feel bad about themselves. Passively scrolling and not interacting will make the user feel alienated. It is the equivalent to seeing everyone enjoying themselves while being excluded from the fun. Unfortunately, many people join social media in hopes of staying connected and interacting with others, but the opposite tends to happen. If one were to logout of Facebook for the whole day, it would take them hours to catch up on what they have missed. There is such an excessive amount of content for everyone to actively engage in, hence why people keep…

    • 726 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Maria Konnikova suggests, in The New Yorker article “How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy” that Facebook can either be a good thing, making people happier or a bad thing, making people sad. It depends on what one is doing online, when one pays attention or not it can result in boredom or not. It also depends on one’s own characteristics, so sad people were sad even before Facebook. However, Facebook seems to be an amplifier of the feelings of one, making people more envy and jealous, for instance. Hence, Facebook does not appear to society as trouble, but it is, definitely, a signal alert of how one’s life is going. Even though Facebook can allow people to connect and communicate with each other, I believe that it brings more bad than benefits.…

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Social media sites like Facebook were developed to connect us to our family and friends around the world with more efficiency and ease. Sites like Facebook have allowed us to communicate in revolutionary…

    • 884 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. It is your choice not someone else.…

    • 782 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ‘Social networking sites have started to become one of the most frequently used online communication types in the world. It is reported that one of the commonly used social networking sites is Facebook.’(Eroglu, 2015)…

    • 1071 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Bebo are tools for people to communicate. Hundreds of millions of people use these tools for finding new friends and sharing their daily activities or their opinion. Some people find these are interesting and use them every day. They find these sites are so beneficial to them. After reading Micheal Rosenwald 's article "Can Facebook Help Overcome Shyness?" and Tom Meltzer 's article "Social Networking: Failure to Connect", in my opinion, social networking harms people more than benefits them. If you spend too much time on something you will get the side effect of it, likely, if a person spends too much time on social networking this can hurt a person 's well-being…

    • 1677 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Millions of eyes runs across the screen, seeking information, entertainment, and daily gossip every second of the day. Facebook is a worldwide network that is used in today’s society.…

    • 792 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics