Facebook And Its Effects On Society

“Our community now has more than 1.55 billion people, including more than 1 billion people active every day,” says Mark Zukerburg, the creator of Facebook, on his own Facebook page last year. As one of the most popular social media sites in the world, Facebook has been adopted by an increasing amount of people over the past decade. The number of users on Facebook indicates how Facebook plays an important role of socializing and communicating in modern age life. Since Facebook allows users to see their friends’ updates and access Facebook on a mobile device, it has a tremendous impact on its users in several aspects. People may ask, “how does Facebook impact its users?” Some people suggest that Facebook creates negative consequences, such as distracting students in class. However, do all users experience these negative consequences? Sociologist Everett M. Rogers argues that the consequences of innovations, whether they are anticipated or not, can be perceived as positive or negative. Since Facebook does not differ from user to user, rather that it is the users that are different from one another, Facebook’s consequences vary from individuals. Even though some criticize how Facebook influences people negatively, depending on how the individual uses it, Facebook can positively impact users through sparking creativity, providing convenience, and creating change.

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and Hollywood horror movie star would have been 86 in this year, but nobody exactly knows how old she was at the time of her death! According to the coroner’s report, she was died for a long time ago before her neighbor discovered her death. Her neighbor, Susan Savage noticed cobwebs in her windows and yellowing pile of letters in her mailbox. She reached through a broken window to unlock the door and she reached upstairs, she found Vickers’s mummified boy near a heater that was running at that time. Near the body, Vickers’s computer was also running. The Los Angeles Times posted a story, which quickly went viral throughout the country. Within two weeks, Vickers’s lonesome death was already the subject to thousands of Facebook posts and tweets. She had long been a horror-movie icon, now she was an icon of a different kind of horror, our growing fear of loneliness. Certainly she received much more attention after her death than she did in the end years of her life. With no children, no religious group, and no immediate social circle of any kind, she had begun to look elsewhere for companionship. Vickers had made calls not to friends or family but to distant fans whom she found through fan conventions and Internet sites. Though her web of connections had grown broader but it was shallower, as has happened for many of us (Marche S. 2012). Vickers’s death arises a question to all- does social media

Social media has connected us in unimaginable ways, and introduced us to a world much larger than our humble backyards. Nowadays, nearly everyone has a Facebook, an Instagram, or a Twitter account. Grandparents, teenagers, children, and even some pets are a part of one social network or another. While websites like Facebook are great for sharing pictures, stories, and interests, but they are also capable of raising awareness about important issues that may have been overlooked. Recently, the overuse of Facebook was thought to promote negative psychology well-being, including depression and loneliness. It 's safe to say that the world has become hopelessly addicted to social media. Plenty of people can 't make it through the day or in extreme cases a few hours without popping on their computers or scrolling through their smart phones to check the newsfeed on Facebook. As Stephen Marche says in his article, "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”, Facebook makes us miserable and lonely. In fact, even though there is evidence showing that we 're more detached or lonely than ever because given Facebook is about social relationships; however, the site also offers an extraordinary number of ways to connect with others. This is just a taste of what Facebook can do, and with a huge number of people utilizing them, its possibilities are only growing. Facebook does not replace real human relationship or create loneliness, but it does not exterminate it either. It all depends on ones usage.

The January 23rd, 2013 Chicago Tribune Article written by Belinda Goldsmith, addresses the negative consequences caused by the world’s largest social media network. The central claim is that Facebook can produce “envy and triggers feelings of misery and loneliness according to German researchers” according to Goldsmith (2013). A report by two German universities found that “one in three people studied felt worse after visiting the site became more dissatisfied with their lives” than those who browsed but did not proactively interact. Goldsmith (2013)

Facebook is an example of how Social Media has influenced the lives of many Americans in today’s generation. Facebook has a negative and positive experience in many ways. Many people meet and become “friends” just by the click of a button. It has encouraged several users all over the country to interact and be social. It can also be a way of finding old friends of yours just by typing in their name in the search bar. Several users pretend being someone else by creating a fake page because they are hiding behind their insecurities. As a generation, e tend to care less about privacy because we update our status on where we are, or what we are doing. This is scary at times because it is easy for anyone to access your information at any time. Facebook,

For many users, Facebook has become an basic part of day-to-day life. However, while the social media site can be very suitable, it's imperative to avoid becoming habituated to it. This article features a comprehensive list of the experts and frauds of using Facebook in your daily phase

Facebook is one of the most popular networking sites in the world, next to LinkedIn and Google plus. However, recent studies have found that people are unaware of Facebook’s influence on our lives. With recent technology and being able to communicate with thousands of people a day Facebook has influenced our relationships in ways we would not have even thought of fifteen years ago.

Social networking is an online community of people with a common interest who use a website or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information and resources, according to Webster. There are countless social networking sites that make it possible to establish connections between people. Some of the most popular sites are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. These social sites make it easier for people to find and communicate with others that share the same network. Although social media leads people to have more interaction and promotes long-distance relationships, it has a lot of negative qualities that tends to drive people to do thing they wouldn’t normally do. When people put an excessive amount of personal information on a profile, it gives predators and bully’s the opportunity to attack them. Many of the users are addicted to social media and they become isolated by using these sites. Social networking must be used in moderation, especially since it leads to several significant negative effects on society.

The “Facebook” we currently use was originally named “The Facebook” which was born on February 4th, 2004. The Ceo of the Facebook is named Mark Zuckerberg; Zuckerberg attended Harvard University while creating “The Facebook”. The social networking website was originally created for Harvard University only students but was later released to all Colleges and schools allowing the website to spread. Yahoo Finance states,”Facebook allows users to share information, post photos and videos, play games, and otherwise connect with one another through online profiles”. (https://biz.yahoo.com/ic/148/148344.html). Facebook competes in the Social Networking industry and is considered number one compared to all other social networking websites with over 500 million followers and being available in 207 countries. Yahoo Finance states, “Facebook’s revenue for 2014 was 12,466 million; and is currently being traded for the stock price of $106.18 and is worth 25 billion dollars”. (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FB). Facebook’s mission is to connect people worldwide by allowing users to share photos, stories, groups, clubs, advertising and lastly social networking. Facebook’s website explains, “Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected”. (https://www.facebook.com/facebook/info/?tab=page_info). Facebook’s vision is for its social networking website to be used all throughout the world connecting people through friends as

Besides the consideration of the safety and convenience to access to personal information online, people also in need of social accounts that can build up their social network online based on their personal information. People tend to use Facebook as their first alternative platform to share anything related to themselves. Pamela Paul, a journalist, who focuses on recording how using Facebook changes the way we live, points out that Facebook has become a platform for us to share our opinions. She writes: “It seems people grow up and shut up. As users make the transition from dormitory to real life, they’re less likely to reveal their political and religious views. And that may be as it should.” (Paul) She also finds that the young people are getting used to using Facebook as their way of getting connected with

When Facebook was originally created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It was made specify for students at Harvard University (Best 21). A few years later Facebook became a means of communication to over 1 billion users. Facebook gave users the ability to connect with anyone in the world at the click of a mouse. Users were able to post their day-to-day activities on their timeline and were also able to talk to my family member’s co-workers, and anybody else in between. On Facebook users can be friends with anyone share photos, and meet new people. With a Facebook account; users felt comfortable with themselves. They were able to join Facebook groups that include people that had similar interests as them. User were able to communicate with

From the beginning of the Internet’s growing popularity, it continues to provide a way of communication that allows for mass access and transfer of information. However, this convenience also comes with negatives such as the ability for abuse by users—harassment, stalking, illegal content—as well as other psychological problems such as addiction and poor self-esteem (Yang and Tung, 2004; Armstrong, Phillips, and Saling, 2000). Communication on the Internet is further expanded by websites such as Facebook—an online social networking site—along with numerous other social media platforms, changing the way we socially interact with others and creating similar issues as the ones internet use brought. Facebook’s popularity is constantly

In today 's world, the culture depends on they behaviors of humans. The Communities these days have become closer to each other “openness to experiencing and thinking about things from other points of view” (Zion and Kozleski, 2005, p.17) because the people from different cultures have openness of the whole worlds and they have idea about diverse cultures regardless the identity of the person his origin or religion. Culture had become the identity of our communities through our behaviors. It has many factors contribute to the formation of each individual’s cultural . Social networking between people contributed to the development of the individual culture and in the development of society.

In the past 20 year’s internet has become part of our daily routine. Waking up in the morning and the very first thing people do is check their Facebook. Facebook is a social media website where people can interact with others online. In fact, Facebook has more than 1.19 billion account of people. Some people say that Facebook is taking over people’s lives. Today more than ever people are findings ways to connect with family and friends. “According to the Facebook website, more than half of the active user’s log on to their accounts daily”. However, although Facebook could be great way to use to connect with friends and maintain good relationships with people it can cause more harm than benefits. I do believe that Facebook became part of who we are.

Facebook, the number one online based networking. Nowadays, everyone must have heard of or used the application. But only few people realize the negative impact Facebook leaves on users. Such as privacy, attitude, and behavior.