Facebook Should Not Be Your Demise

Facebook, a social media site, enables people to acquire hundreds, and even thousands, of casual relationships using technology. The problem with this is, considering the amount of time it requires to sustain a relationship, people can only develop so many.

In the last ten to fifteen years accompanying the dawn of social media, means of communication among friends and strangers have been easier than ever. Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has grown into the largest social media site on the Internet with 30 million users and counting. The ability to catch up with former high school friends who are now across the country or see how an aunt in Pittsburgh has been doing since the birth of her son are now as simple as the click of a mouse. However, the amount of “friends” acquired on social media may not be an accurate reflection of how many close relationships one truly shares. In an article from Bigthink.com titled “Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?”, Steven Mazie gathers research from Pew Research Center about statistics surrounding Facebook

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.

Facebook is one of the most influential inventions of this generation. This platform allows users to share opinions, photos, and videos, which has transformed media all together. However, Facebook’s recent security breach has the potential to put an end to the company’s long run of success. It’s not just Facebook’s security that was breached, but the trust between users and Facebook was breached as well. How could a third party so easily access users’ personal information? Is Cambridge Analytica the only company that has obtained this information, or are there many others that simply haven’t been discovered yet? These are questions that Facebook users are asking, and these questions represent the very reasons why the security breach is so detrimental

“Social media allows people to connect with each other to create and share information. It is people-powered communication, an authentic dialogue motivated by a basic human desire to share information” (CIPD, Social Media and Employee Voice Report 2013). ‘Click’ and my message is on its way to my friend’s Facebook inbox hundred of miles away. The astonishing speed of how quick we can communicate in today’s societies, all thanks to social media. The invention of Facebook simplified everything we know about communication. We can connect to people whenever and wherever, sharing information has never been more convenient and exciting. In Shane Hipps’ Article, “ Is Facebook Killing Our Souls?,” he has no intention to impede technological advancements, instead he wants users to understand technologies with insights. According to my research, although Hipps ' points has some merits, I disagree with him because he overgeneralized the impacts that Facebook and other social media has on users’ behaviors and identities.

Before the first telephone had been invented by, there were no other ways to communicate from long distances except by telegraph or letters. Communications were much slower than today. With the invention of the Internet, communicating with the whole world through a personal computer has become a reality. However, the true revolution in communication occurred when Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook. While being attractive for people all over the world, Zuckerberg’s social network also possesses serious threats and setbacks which may not be obvious at first. Below are some of the main points that a Facebook user should know before using it.

Technology sometimes has a bad reputation, taking the blame for sexting, bullying, identity theft, and the list just goes on. However, technology can help conduct schedules, simplify work and home businesses, coordinate activities, communicate with families and much more. Facebook, arguably the most famous social networking site, comes with its own pros and cons. Facebook though should raise some concerns.

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

In 2004, Harvard University was graced by the presences of Facebook, which began as a startup directory service specifically for students. Mark Zuckerberg envisioned a business plan that would provide networking services to college, then later, high school student, which grew extremely rapidly. As he continued to build on his business strategy, other groups of people were added that evolved into this massive internet technology (IT) business of today. Facebook sparked the interest of sites, investors as the pool of stakeholders increased phenomenally. As a business grows, so does increased risks in which Facebook was no exception. Risks such as competitors, privacy and security issues, user’s denial,

Who knew that one little bird could change the world? According to the encyclopedia, since the early 2000s social media has taken the internet by storm, and by 2015, it accounted for an estimated 28 percent of all time spent online in the United States. (Patrick G. Cooper, Social Media) Twitter, whose trademark is a little bird, plays a huge part in this social media storm. Twitter does have a positive impact on the social media frenzy, but many people find that Twitter has a negative influence on today’s culture. Although many people believe the social med app, Twitter affects society negatively, the truth is Twitter is beneficial because it is a good connection source.

“Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected” (Facebook). Since launching in 2004, Facebook has cemented itself as a worldwide phenomenon. “As of the first quarter of 2016, Facebook had 1.65 billion monthly active users,” making it “the biggest social networking service based on a global reach and total active users” (Statista). Individuals utilize Facebook in various ways, including but not limited to, sharing news information, advertising, self-promotion, staying in touch with friends and relatives, following public figures, uploading photos, and posting personal feelings. Conventional wisdom has it that Facebook is becoming the primary means of communication and socialization, causing detriment to regular users both personally and professionally. Unaware of the harm being caused, numerous people have developed an emotional attachment, refuting any negative feedback pertaining to the social networking service. Although admired and justified by many, Facebook damages people’s psychological well-being, diminishes social skills, and destroys career opportunities.

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 is a social network that is used for connecting with friends’ online and meeting new people. It allows me to post statuses of what I’m doing, such as dining out at Texas road house like I did the other day or going to the gym and saying something like “Gym time today, going to go beast mode!” and addition to the location also. It also allows me to add pictures of my selection to share with the friends and family that I have on Facebook, most of my pictures are selfies of me with the occasional motivational quote pictures. The way all this works is that I would set up an account with my name and last name and upon making it, it asks me to put in information about myself on the profile, I just gave a brief intro about who I was as a

Communicating in today’s society has become a lot easier with social networking sites allowing us to communicate with people through technological devices. Facebook, being one of many social networking sites, allows people to connect with friends and family in our surroundings and across the seas. Originally, Facebook was started in a Harvard dorm room in 2003 by one of its students, Mark Zuckerburg. It began as a social network for Harvard students and then quickly expanded to universities across America. Facebook, as we know it today, started in the year 2004. On September 26, 2006, Facebook became available to everyone age 13 and older with a valid email address. Most participants log on at least once a day. Personally, I long on at

Many would say Facebook is a major part of their lives, and I can’t blame them, I used to feel the same way, back when I used to have a Facebook. Though, I soon found it to be a drama ensued playground. A place where cyberbullying was made a synch, and nothing is private. “Facebook seemed like a big deal in high school, so I got one. But as time progressed and I became more mature it seemed like it was nothing but a waste of time and it was all drama. So I deleted it.” A fellow classmate stated. For instance, a dear friend of mine was