The Effects Of Facebook On The New Generation

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“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

In recent months, the comments made by some young men part of Facebook group, and educational community, have stirred up a lot of unrest. This group of students attended Dalhousie University and their Facebook group was called “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen”. Gentlemen, however, is not something that most would use to describe them after the awful, demeaning comments they had posted about fellow female classmates were released to the media. The public was infuriated by not only the actions of these men, but also the decisions made by the university regarding the disciplinary actions to take place. Looking at this situation through the sociological framework of feminism, the oppression and treatment of women as sexual objects is as clear as

We are dictated by social media. It’s controlling. It’s possessive. Yet, we haven’t even paused to realize it because as teenagers we don’t know any differently. With teens as the subject of example, it is clear that social media has become a way of life. So now there is a debate. What exactly is it that social media does to us? Is the teenage generation the first product of a world run by social media? Most importantly, is this a positive or negative thing for us? There are many different things to consider. With all factors in mind, the biggest question of all comes to mind. Since it first emerged, what has social media truly changed about today’s teen generation?

When a social media site is created such as facebook, anyone can message, call, or even look at your page, which is very unsafe. People take advantage of children while on social media. Social media is a very dangerous thing but can be fun while used right. Children think that social media is a game, while other adults think it's a good target for

Manjoo’s essay 'Is Facebook a Fad' provides extensive insight into various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Based on statistics derived from Manjoo’s essay, we get to know that Facebook has over one billion active users and one half of them log into their accounts each day (Manjoo p.223). William Deresiewicz also eludes to this in his essay 'Faux Friendship'. As a result of so many people opting to turn to social networking sites, this in turn has made friendship to smoothly be integrated into the various new electronic lifestyles. One way that these sites poses an imminent threat to our ability to communicate face to face, is that,

We wake up in the morning and check our Instagram account instead of saying good morning to our families. We go on our phones and check what's trending and we open Facebook and comment something mean about someone. We are so used to social networks and modern media everywhere, we don't even communicate with each other in person. Social networks and modern media are to blame for escalating violence rate, lowering reading levels and lowering moral standards in our societies filled with teenagers.

Firstly O'Keeffe, G.S. and Clarke-Pearson, K., (2011) state that “Using social media becomes a risk to adolescents more often than most adults realize. Most risks fall into the following categories: peer-to-peer; inappropriate content; lack of understanding of online privacy issues; and outside influences of third-party advertising groups” this shows that social media is being used as a negative way for children and younger audiences to share around inappropriate content and to be affected by other means, as said because they seem to have a lack of online privacy. O'Keeffe, G.S. and Clarke-Pearson, K. are saying that not only the children lack these flaws in social media but so do the parents. “more often than most adults realize.” (O'Keeffe, G.S. and Clarke-Pearson, K., 2011) this clearly states that even adults don’t realise the risks that come with social media. Not all aspects of social media have a negative impact on children, “Social networking can also help shy adolescents have a more non-threatening way to interact with peers because they aren’t interacting face-to-face” (Rosen, 2011). Rosen is telling us that social media actually helps young children: who are shy, communicate and develop with other children and new people all over the world: this could be friends and family.

One of the most frequently asked questions in today's society is if social media is beneficial or harmful. Many argue that social media is a revolutionary invention while others argue that it has a negative impact on society. Social networking sites, such as Facebook, were created to stay in touch with friends exchange photos, and to be able to share news and multimedia content with them. Along with these positive aspects of Facebook, there are some negative consequences as well. Often times, Facebook and other social media sites aid in depression, jealousy, selfish attitudes, and addiction. With these major negativities, Facebook is no longer beneficial but, instead, is rather harmful to society.

If you walk into a classroom full of teenagers and ask how many of them have a type of social media, and a majority of the students will raise their hand. Social media has become a lifeline in countless people’s lives in today’s society. One of the most popular social networking sites is Facebook. With millions of account holders, it is hard to find an individual who does not associate with Facebook. This shows that Facebook impacts a vast number of people throughout the world. For many, Facebook has become their way of socializing, causing people’s social skills to plummet. Mediation is a form of way people receive and connect to certain information acquired from a certain type of media. Facebook happens to be an example of mediation, because people are able to receive recent and sometimes past news. Facebook can also affect ways individuals respond to the information they learn about. This social media also has the potential of becoming dangerous for account holders. Facebook has become an addicting source of entertainment and a direct factor in the way people develop their social skills today, causing more people to struggle with face-to-face interaction.

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.

For some college students, their online social reputations are more important than their real life reputations. Indeed—now more than ever, college students are sharing more and becoming more involved in building a life revolving around a social networking site known as Facebook. Once described as a “rapidly expanding phenomenon” (Muise, Christofides & Desmarais, 2009) Facebook has since become an unavoidable part of many college student’s daily social interactions (Joinson, 2008; Subrahmanyam et al., 2008; Youn et al., 2013). Similar to the rise of Internet usage before it, the ever-increasing usage of Facebook has been heavily scrutinized by researchers as having potentially negative effects on college student’s mental and physical

Facebook is a threat to privacy. Billy Graham once said, "Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing” (Jacob, Don). With the rise of Facebook and other social networks, privacy is slowly given away. Most people do not realize it, but every time you use Facebook a piece of your personal information is leaked to the public (Jacob, Don). Facebook users have a false sense of online online anonymity as they believe that whatever they say or post cannot be trace back to them. As the result, Facebook users post embarrassing, humiliating, denigrating and hurtful content on their profile. They do not realize how many people that those contents

Can you imagine living in a world with no social media or smartphone? No instagram, twitter, facebook or snapchat? Believe it or not, that world existed before us millennials did. According to an article found on the Pew Research Center.com, entitled “The Demographics of Social Media Users”, the amount of Facebook users is “72% of adult internet users [and] 62% of entire adult population.” Facebook along with other media outlets have easily become the norm for young adults and older adults in today’s society. The rapid growth of accessibility to social media networking was made possible from the creation and use of smart phones. The combination of social media sites and smart phone users has single handedly eliminated the need for human interactions, but also has provided a repertoire of information at our fingertips. I will discuss the following: the history of Facebook and its impact, the creation of the iPhone and its development of social media apps like Instagram, and the effects of cyberbullying. The purpose of this essay is to explore the productive qualities and destructive qualities that various social media outlets have presented to our generation.