Facebook And Its Effect On Our Lives

Facebook was celebrated its 10th birthday last year, in 2014, marked a miracle milestone for the biggest social network site in the world. Since the very first day, Facebook was faced so many obstacle to grow up from a college social network site to the home for everyone on earth can seek out and keep in touch with each other. Along with the develop of the company, they have blamed for everything, from making people lazy and addicted to increase cyber bully, privacy invasion, and loneliness. But in the other side, if a service is not good, why more and more people start to use Facebook and it is still growing strong? Like what Josh Rose stated in his article the pathos that: “The internet doesn’t steal our humanity, it reflects it,” (Josh Rose 619) beside the negative effect, the logos: Facebook still have much more positive effect and impact on human being in a way we never know before.

A website article by (Shruti Tripathi Chopra 2015) stated that in 2008 Facebook made and estimated $300 million, that rose to a profit in 2014 of $2.9. The positive implications of social networking sites have no boundaries. Communication between people in the past was, either over the phone or via letter, just to mention a few. (Pewinternet.org 2005) published that just 7% of American adults used social networking sites, and then rising to 65% by 2015. As a result, in this growth and popularity, jobs have been created to meet the demands of social networking sites. It was surely inevitable, that the growth and impact of social networking sites would influence how most of us live our lives today.

Facebook is one of website which facilities communication. By facebook, people become easy to communicate with their friend. Moreover, facebook can be accessed for all ages. For example, using facebook becomes a lifestyle for teenagers. Almost everyday they access their facebook account to chat with their friends or just to update their status. If they don’t have facebook, their other friends will say you are old-fashion people. Facebook also has advantages and disavantages. In this article, let’s try to disscuss the disavantages of using facebook. Some disavantages that we can mention here : making weak eyesight, wasting time and money, cyber crime and conflict rising.

According to Forbes, there are about 1 billion social media accounts all over the world, these accounts makes almost all of the countries of the world connected with each other.Social media is a very common in today’s modern world, social media is considered to be one of humanity’s greatest achievements and accomplishments. Never before humans were connected to each other as in today’s world. and almost everybody has a Facebook account, there are about 500 million Facebook accounts. Facebook allow its users to chat with each other, to see each other’s pictures, and to comment on any post. Which is very useful in the business and marketing world.

Attention Getter/Device: Facebook has become the number one online social networking site used on college campuses because of its favor between students. According to Noyes 2015 research he indicates that there are “1.39 billion monthly active users” of which, if combined worldwide, spend over 100 million hours on Facebook every day (Noyes, 2015). Furthermore, I have personally observed my family members using Facebook since it was established, therefore, I have viewed its peaks it has hit along its way.

“People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what 's going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.”(“Company Info | Facebook Newsroom”)

Since 2004, Facebook has been one of the best popular sites to become a member of. They have made it very simple to sign up with just a valid email so you can enjoy the great experience. Even though social media was not as popular as it was today, it has made a tremendous growth in society. Today, we have sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc, that allow us to observe the actual interaction between members. Since technology has expanded, we also have quick access to Facebook through our phones or tablets and that is because of the unlimited use of Wi-Fi being available at many places, such as McDonald’s. It is almost impossible to not be able to use Facebook on the go. Sociologist, Herbert

In the present time, people are globally connected through the digital frontier. They are able to communicate directly with each other in seconds. Sometimes, they do it on their smart phones. Sometimes, they go on the computer. Nonetheless, technology’s growth over time has allowed society easier access to information and interaction. Social media platforms have revolutionized modern communication. Facebook possesses a network economy, in which it contains a positive correlation between amount of users and significance. Users benefit as more people connect to the platform. As of March 31, 2016, Facebook has maintained at least 1.65 billion active users monthly (Company Info | Facebook Newsroom). The plethora of users and information given out on

Life engrossing, monotonous and joyless are a few ways to describe the website that has

Facebook is currently largest social networking site in the world based on monthly unique visitors – attracting 130 million unique visitors every day (Alexa Inc. 2012). The site’s popularity exploded in 2007 and it bypassed its social networking rival, MySpace, in April 2008 (Phillips 2007). Over the last few years Facebook has impacted people’s social lives in various ways. With its availability on modern smart phones, Facebook enables users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and peers wherever they are in the world as long as they have internet access. It can also group people together who share beliefs and interests and has been known to even reunite lost family members and friends through its enormous social reach

Facebook, a social networking website, has changed the way people communicate with each other. A social networking website is an online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. Facebook has even changed our most personal and private conversations and how they are conducted around the world. Since the internet’s birth in 1983, this trend of online communication has been growing. Created in 2004, now registered with more than one billion participants, Facebook’s user numbers surpass even the top four social networking websites combined. According to Wikipedia statistics, Instagram has 300 million registered users, LinkedIn has 200 million users, Classmates.com has 50 million users, and Flickr has 32 million registered users. To be further convinced of the claim that Facebook indeed changes the way we communicate, you would only need to create your own Facebook account and start participating in their social networking experience. Technology and internet usage is fused into every aspect of our society including the style of communication. The launch of Facebook in 2006 also enabled other devices such as touch phones, interactive tablets, and even advanced cars with their own networking capabilities starting in 2007. Facebook is a multibillion-dollar company and is highly recognized for connecting more people than other networks. Facebook’s long-term success can be attributed to providing entertainment, world news, and

Technology has drastically changed the way we present ourselves to others. With social media at our fingertips, there is a constant desire to always be posting or sharing information. Social media is a way to express our feelings, ideas, and emotions to a wide variety of friends all at once. I acknowledge this is a unique capability, but I feel some have abused this powerful opportunity. In Alone Together, Sherry Turkle claims we are all turning into “cyborgs,” as technology is slowly becoming a deeper part of our identity (Turkle 151). Our digital image is gradually masking our physical selves as we strive to be the most ideal in comparison to our virtual friends.

In September 2006, Facebook is just a new born social networking site which has approximately 9.5 million users (Raacke and Bonds-Raacke, 2008). In November 2013, the users of Facebook have increased to 1,278 million (Facebook, 2013). Based on user number and traffic research, Facebook already become the world biggest social networking sites. The dramatic development of Facebook brings a series changes in people’s everyday life. There are a number of functions to satisfy different demand of their audience. For example, Facebook allow users to build up a personal profile and post their information on it. In addition, they can find some entertainment function, Games app supply thousands of games. Many researches begin to focus their attention on the relationship between Facebook and its audiences. These researches mainly use college students as survey subject. As one of the biggest user group, more than 90% college students have Facebook account (Wiley and Sisson, 2006; Ellison and Steinfield et al., 2007; Raacke and Bonds-Raacke, 2008). Some researches showed college students spend time on Facebook per day is about 30 minutes (Ellison and Steinfield et al 2007; Valenzuela and Park et al., 2009; Pempek and Yermolayeva et al. 2009). However, these researches have just evaluated the impact of Facebook on users, and no research analyses how the audience demand affect Facebook service. As one of the Facebook users, it is important to know the relationship between Facebook and me.

As technology progress, humans evolve to the advanced technology and enhance our lives via technology. We connect to our families, friends and others through social media such as Facebook. Social media takes up a huge part in our lives. Social media infest us with information that are relevant and irrelevant to us. Marry Marrow wrote, “It was Facebook that changed the face of e-communication; in fact, it was the first electronic social media” (para 1). She assumes that Facebook is playing a huge role in electronic communication. In the journalist Maria Konnikova, “How Facebook makes us unhappy?”, Konnikova divulges many aspects of people on social media through researching and experience, and finds how social makes us unhappy. I agree with Konnikova findings after reading her article. In addition, she concludes that if you are engaged, active, and creative you will not sorrowful on Social media, however if you are passively browsing and defuse to engage, you will be depressed.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg while studying at Harvard University in 2004. Prior to founding Facebook, Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social networking sites for students including Coursematch, and Facesmash. It was originally known as “The Facebook” and was launched exclusively for Harvard students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate student body had a profile. The Facebook continued to expand to other Boston, Ivy League, and eventually all US universities.