Facebook 's Effect On Our Life

Social media, like Facebook and Twitter seems to be growing popular worldwide in the last few years. Have you found yourself or someone else in an awkward situation and instantly pull out your phone to scrawl through Facebook or Twitter just to keep from talking to someone in the elevator or doctor’s office? Is social media like Facebook and Twitter making us lonely human beings? One man, Stephen Marche, wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely,” published in May of 2012 issue in The Atlantic thinks that social media might play a role in it alongside with other things.

“Facebook is the Devil,” my dad retorts to my mother as she sifts through the backlog of endless wedding photos, baby announcements, and political propaganda. You may laugh, but the statement above has some merit. If you ever catch yourself thinking “Wow, what a blooming idiot!” or “Eww, that’s a horrible picture of her. Why would she post that?” or my personal favorite “That baby is really ugly.” chances are you may need to take some time off Facebook. Social media has a way of revealing everyone’s true colors; the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Stephen Marche’s article, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” explores the complex issues regarding loneliness. “Loneliness and being alone are not the same thing…” (The Atlantic), Marche states. Loneliness is a physiological mantra and a projection of an individual’s feelings about life and their surroundings. Loneliness is by far one of the most detrimental epidemics because it is sly; many people do not identify loneliness to be an actual factor of bad health. Bad health can originate from a prolonged feeling of being alone therefore can affect the human body itself. In his article, Marche continues to discuss several scientists’ perspectives and references a myriad of social experiments composed around the issue of correlation or causation between

Stephen Marche’s “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” posted by The Atlantic has internet users questioning the meaning of why they use the internet and social media as well as weather or not it has a profound impact on their social lives. In 1995, only one percent of the world had access to the internet according to internetlivestats.com. Today, that number is approximately to 40%. With the expansion of the internet came social platforms such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and numerous similar sites. However, while these social media websites may be great ways to communicate with those who are far away or otherwise unable to speak in person, a detrimental effect comes with the power to do so. It can be time consuming and if one has an

Facebook has become such a huge epidemic due to the way people can communicate with one and other through instant messaging and commenting too seeing photographs and uploading your personal information. Although there are many negative impacts that social media has on our youth’s lives; there continues to still be an uprising community of people who continue to use Facebook as their number one form of communication (Los Angles Times 2011).

Facebook could be thought of as antibiotics. When antibiotics were introduced mainstream in 1945 (Aminav, 2010) they were a wondrous drug based in biology and ancient practices of medicine. There is no doubt the magnitude antibiotics have had on the development of our civilization. They have created a cure for most human ailments previously causing long-term illness and mortality. We owe our lives and society to antibiotics in a large way. Facebook is the same way. For our social, connectivity and information sharing lives that is. Facebook jumped to the top in popularity for social networking sites and changed the way people communicate, connect, relate and do business. What doctors, researchers and consumers did not know in 1945 was

Social media has taken the world by storm. Facebook currently has more than 1 billion active users, which is three times the number of people who live in the US. With so many people using Facebook it comes to no surprise that it has been made to have a negative influence from concerns over privacy, to people spending hours on the site and ultimately becoming addicted to it. But Facebook can also be a useful tool when used correctly, it helps people stay in touch, make new friends and it cures boredom.

This literature review is made to discuss the effects of social networking websites especially Facebook on people’s psychological Well-being. Since Facebook became the number one social networking website in the world and almost everyone use Facebook to communicate with people, we should know that people from the age of 18 to 25 are the ones usually glued to their Facebook accounts due to the fact that they care about their social status and knowing more about other people’s lives. Such an important website definitely has positive and negative effects on an individual’s well being which is why these effects should be studied.

Today, social media have become an integral part of people’s lives. People across the world with different cultures, beliefs, customs and lifestyles exchange information through social media. Facebook is a popular social media where people communicate with families and friends by sending messages and posting pictures or videos. Nowadays, it is common to see companies advertise their products on Facebook, and not only that, they also make sales via Facebook. Parents today allow their children to use Facebook both as a means of educating and giving them their freedom. However, as informative and useful as it is, Facebook has severe effects that could ruin the lives of children.

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.

When I was younger my parents would never let me use the internet and when they did they taught me that I should never give out personal information or talk to anyone that I did not know. I started watching a lot of YouTube videos at a young age about skin care, hair care, product reviews, basically, anything beauty related. I loved watching the videos so much I thought about starting my own channel and posting my own videos about the things that I wanted to talk about, but my parents did not want me to put myself out there on the internet for everyone to see. The girls that I would watch on YouTube were around my age with only a few subscribers, and now those girls have millions of followers and all-expense paid trips because of their

Mark Zuckerberg, a name less remarkable than Facebook, is really the maker of this most lively specialized gadget. Rather than simply moving on from Harvard and appreciating the achievement that a Harvard confirmation would bring, he decided to build up his own organization at 19 years old. In six year time, Facebook has pulled in more than 500 million clients. At the end of the day, one out of each dozen of individuals has a record on this informal organization. They talk 75 dialects and on the whole spend more than 700 billion minutes on the site consistently. Another supernatural quality about Facebook is that it is one of the quickest developing organizations ever. Its enrollment is right now developing at a rate of around 700,000

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.

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 invented in 2004 by a college student named Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook out of his dorm room for his fellow student at Harvard. Facebook quickly expanded throughout the campus. As it was such a huge hit, Facebook was soon spread to other campuses and was opened to the public for use. Today, teenagers to seniors can be found using Facebook. According to Statista, as of April 2016 there were 1.59 billion active users. Facebook is used to connect with others, build professional profiles and organize events. Facebook can be used for many of other things, such as, seeing photos and videos, keeping up with news and current events and receiving feedback from others on the content people may have. Facebook is