Facebook and Negative Feelings

There is a high level of vulnerability with sharing personal information about oneself online (Debatin 2009:3). Potential stalkers in a physical or digital environment can use the information (Debatin 2009:3). The digital environment has made it easier for people to infringe on personal information. The most common happenings reported on Facebook include changing users’ pictures, creating fake accounts, making embarrassing information public, creating vulnerability (Debatin 2009:3). Concerns over issues related to Facebook’s privacy policy include divulging user information to government agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (Debatin 2009:3).

Facebook is a major social networking site that connects users through text, post, and video all over the world. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It now has about 1 billion users and has grown to become the second most popular site ever. Facebook has enabled many people to communicate and share things online like never before. In can also raise support or awareness for a cause through facebook. This of course shows

In today’s society many people have a social media account like, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. In the essay “Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Career?” by Rebecca Dince; tells us how Facebook changed how people see the world. Employers were looking on Facebook for information about the individuals they were looking to hire. Facebook also raised privacy issues like, addresses, cell phone numbers and sexual preferences. I believe that the website also brought on cyber bullying.

Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As

Despite Facebook keep saying they always protect users privacy. However, few functions they have changed during the past few years make people hard to believe Facebook can actually capable of protect their privacy. It become quite obvious that compare to its own business profit, privacy is not such a big deal for Facebook to make some change which brings more fame and benefit to itself.

With the advent of the Internet, eventually came an influx social networks. Coming and going like the latest fashion trends, early social networks lacked something Facebook didn't, staying power. Regardless of how you feel about the site, Facebook has become an essential component of daily communication and even in some cases act as de facto news sources, Facebook is by far the biggest social networks network out, so it's no surprise that they are the most egregious offenders ethical ineptitude. In order to get a Facebook account some basic information is needed before you can interface the site: name, age, and email. When setting up your profile you'll be asked some optional questions like your hobbies, interest, and education history. People

There are things in the great world of Facebook that kids should not be exposed to at a young age, and it also can get quite annoying to older people who are using Facebook the way that it’s intended to be used. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard undergraduate student, who was into creating websites. He started off with making a website that permitted students to see what classes their friends were in, so that they could see their friends in the class and want to join also. Later he wanted to transform his idea to an even greater website that would transform the world of social networking forever. He made a website that connected Harvard students to each other, in which he called Thefacebook. Thefacebook quickly spread

While not as devastating as hacking, cyber-stalking is a common problem society faces. Stalking is known as intentionally following someone without their knowledge. In the cyber-world, however, stalking consists of digging into personal information or harassment without being face to face. Because of the internet, the most concerning aspect of cyber stalking is how anyone can be a stalker (Cyber Stalking).

According to “The Facebook Effect” Facebook is the second most visited web site on earth after Google. Most users spend around an hour a day of the website. It has over 400 million active users (at the time the book was written). Even more astonishing the number of people join was about 5 percent a month. “Were the growth rate if both Facebook and the Internet to remain steady, by 2013 every single person online worldwide would be on Facebook”. To me that is an amazing fact and shows not only how popular Facebook is but how it truly changed the way people connected and communicated. According to author David Kirkpatrick Facebook is a “platform for people to get more out of their lives,” and an “entirely new form of communication.”

Firstly, privacy practices are highly controversial when speaking about Facebook. Although the website offers an array of privacy settings to choose from, regarding the access to your information by others, the huge data Facebook collects from its users is not in the safest hands. It is sold to advertisers so that they can target individuals according to their interests(5). In fact, Facebook’s privacy policy has changed across the years,

Facebook is a popular social networking website that connects and updates families, friends, and colleagues. This site was supposed to have a positive impact on our lives, however, it also came with consequences. Facebook has caused our lack of ability to communicate and connect with others. This type of social media site has been an integrated part of most people’s life especially the young adults. Facebook has affected the divorce rate for married couples, cyberbullying for young adults, our mental health, and dangerous outcomes for posting personal information.

Through its years of operation, Facebook has been able to evolve and remain as one of the most popular social networking sites ever created. Facebook’s purpose is for users to connect, share, and communicate with each other across the internet. The case explores the beginning of Facebook, in 2003, when Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg first created an on-campus website called Facemash. The site would allow other students to rank the attractiveness of fellow students and quickly became the topic of conversation at the university. Zuckerberg would soon be placed on academic probation for breach of security, after the university learned he had hacked into Harvard’s computer network in order to use pictures of students on the website. This, however, did not deter Zuckerberg as he then began to work on his next website: The Facebook. The Facebook was launched in 2004, soon dropping the “The” to become Facebook. Zuckerberg knew the sites potential and allowed other universities in the Boston area to use the site. Over the next years, Facebook grew more and more popular, being used in over 800 colleges, universities and high schools. By the end of 2005, Facebook had earned 9 million in revenue and millions of monthly active users (The Guardian 2007).

By virtue of the amount of time spent on the site, Facebook is the leading social media network. Founded in 2004, it is estimated that this social network had over a billion monthly active users in 2013. Facebook is free and enables its users to create profiles, keep in touch with their friends and upload or share pictures and videos. It has also been suggested Facebook largely caters to educated users. A Pew Internet and American Life Project report found the educational distribution of Facebook users to be as follows: pre high school 5 percent, high school 26 percent, trade school or some college 34 percent, bachelor degree 20 percent, and graduate school 15 percent. Despite majority of its users being educated, most Facebook users are complacent towards issues of privacy or the risks of internet usage in general. In 2005, serious flaws in Facebook’s set up that would enable breaches in people’s privacy and allow for data mining were

INTRODUCTION: Facebook is the most popular social networking site over the world with more than eight hundred million users. It has become so much part of people’s life that anyone can get access to their personal information. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg with the concept of allowing people to share their common interest, but with time it has lost its real essence. As a matter of fact, it is a very useful medium of communication to stay connected with friends and family, but it has some positive as well as negative effects on the society. It is a social network which was created as a social media platform to connect people and in many ways it seems that it has achieved its purpose. However, facebook’s popularity and massive use masks its psychological damages which are: addiction, depression and isolation.

Facebook is a negative influence on our youth because it takes away privacy, creates exposure to circumstances or thought’s above their age, and has an influence of negative socializing practices. Our youth’s minds are easily influenced and what they perceive becomes the norm for them throughout their life, making it difficult to change that mindset later in life. Facebook is a non-privacy site that allows anyone to be able to see a page and in many cases private aspects of life posted to Facebook. Facebook has many ideas or thoughts that are not age appropriate posted all over different pages that are easily accessible. Facebook also changes the socialization practices from meeting and spending time together to a more unsociable version of sending instant messages.