The popular site, Facebook.com, has amassed more than one billion registrants since it started in February 2004. It is another social networking site, just like MySpace.com and Xanga.com, which is common to High School and College students. But this is no ordinary site; people’s lives literally revolve around Facebook. I have a Facebook account and log in at least once a day. I personally believe that Facebook is a fun and interactive site. However, some students may not feel that same way because they have encountered some negative aspects, aside from Facebook’s legal problems. Students who want to find jobs may regret posting private pictures and comments on Facebook. Employers not only screen resumes and conduct interviews, but also view job candidates’ Facebook profiles. The boss wants to know if the applicant is actually a “professional.” Pictures may show the person drinking, smoking, or doing other unprofessional activities. Offensive comments can also hurt an applicant’s chances of getting the job. Not many Colleges check up on their students through Facebook, but Oxford University is an expert at doing just that. Any picture or comment pertaining to illegal activities will lead to a student being charged with a fine. Since I am about to head off to college soon, I would disapprove of this invasion of privacy. Nonetheless, other colleges may soon pick up this way to spy on their students. Just as MySpace has online predators, Facebook may have some too. Some Facebook users have profiles with personal information that are visible to everyone. AOL screen names, phone numbers, and even addresses are posted on the site. Police are now looking into Facebook because a few convicted sex offenders have registered on the site. The entire Facebook company is being sued by three owners of ConnectU, which is another social networking site.
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
Social media prevents you from getting into college, especially when you post bad things. The article “How Social Media Can Affect College Admissions states” “The Kaplan study also reported that 12% of college admission applicants we rejected were because of what they saw on social media” (2014). This shows that even though 12% might not seem like a lot it should be 0%, considering it is a very easy thing to prevent. Also, you can be so booksmart and still not get into your dream college because of your account. This is important because you have to use social media wisely. Therefore, all social media pages should only be clean information.
The sociological perspective is a theoretical approach to understanding the relationship between humans and society. Within this perspective, there are three views; functionalist, conflict and symbolic Interaction. Each theory offers a different view of the world. When these three perspectives are used together, society, social forces and human behavior is easier to understand. Facebook is a good example for explaining how society operates. It is its own society in a way. A society is basically a group of people who share the same territory, have relationships with one another and share a culture. If we use the Facebook page as a territory, it is a society all its own. It is easier to see Facebook as its own society when its population is about the size of the third largest country. Facebook is the biggest social media site in the world and has over nine million active monthly users. It is hard to believe that Facebook has only been around for ten years. In those ten years it has become a very important in the lives of many people. With the use of sociological perspective, the society, social forces and the human behavior of Facebook will be able to be understood more clearly.
Every morning when students wake up the first thing they do is check their social media. The first thing they do is to check to see what happened while they were sleeping, who’s messaged them. Students use social media for information to find out about the lives of the people surrounding them. Social is a great resource to find out about what’s going on in people’s lives. Colleges and employers should not be able to look at social media pages because it’s not an accurate representation of who they would be, social media is not private, and because it’s your personal life.
..., and questionable or illegal activities” (Williams 66). These illegal photos and updates are becoming more and more common, as are incidents similar to the one at “Eden Prairie High School,” where 13 students were suspended for “posting photos of themselves consuming illegal substances on… Facebook” (Williams 66). The Internet is a place where teens can say literally anything, whether it is “all the crazy stuff going on,” or “disparaging comments on Facebook”, and they all think that there will be no consequences for it (Williams 67).
An American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, Mark Elliot Zuckerburg was one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook, which currently has “1.49 billion active Facebook users in the second quarter of 2015”, according to (www.statista.com). Also statistics provided by (www.adweek.com) shows that in 2009, Facebook was growing at an exponential rate of “700,000 to 750,000 new users per day”. Also the lasting impacts including the advantages and disadvantages that come with the use of Facebook should be addressed. Some advantages include, the ability to share personal moments with millions of people across the world, connecting people to friends, families, to strangers that live thousands of kilometres away. It
When using Facebook, users are able to perform many different tasks while connecting with various individuals. Some of the functions and applications that are available for users include: the ability to create a profile, become friends with individuals, send private messages, post comments on friend’s walls, and share pictures on your profile page. Along with these functions, there must be a level of protection that guards the Facebook account holders. However, according to Facebook’s privacy principles, the network states that “People should have the freedom to share whatever information they want, in any medium or any format, and have ...
The situation revolving around these sites is not likely to clear up any time soon; in fact, as freshmen enter higher education institutions, more activity regarding social networking will take place. Christine Rosen, “a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington” (2), said that the amount of freedom and control that technology gives us also provides a direct route for marketers to advertise products to these users. In addition, she says that college administrators use Facebook as a means of snooping around to find evidence of illegal activity of students. Many of these administrators and employers also create fake profiles in order to conduct these investigations, although, as spokesman for Facebook Chris Hughes says, creating...
Facebook privacy and security have many benefits, problems, and challenges. There is a benefit for every security setting on Facebook but the real concern comes along when it comes to facing the problem and how this problem goes into different steps of challenges, and how we can fix that problem in order for privacy not to be a huge issue. A person that has access to Facebook wants to share their everyday moments to the world such as sharing personal posts, photos and videos, and that’s what Facebook is basically known for.
This is yet another way of invading privacy. In the past, employers would only know what you told them in your interview. They would assess your skills and determine if you were right for the job, aside from knowing your beliefs or views. However, now with Facebook an employer can see all the personal information, this can negatively influence a candidate’s job. The same goes for those who are currently employed and potential students. “Dr. Nora Barnes, Director for the Center of Marketing Research at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, published a study that showed more than 20% of colleges and universities search social networks for their admissions candidates” (Fodeman). This is becoming a part of the admissions process, but it is unfair. Searching someone’s Facebook to determine his or her admissions eligibility is wrong and a privacy invasion. As long as a student has fulfilled the school’s requirements and done well in school, why should it matter what their personal lives are like? In the time before Facebook, this would be like a school sending someone to secretly follow a potential student and see what he or she does in their
In Thoughts on Facebook, Mitrano’s primary message to students was to be careful with the technology, because information posted on Facebook could be available and used in ways that the student did not originally intend (2006). Certainly, good advice that is delivered with anecdote after anecdote, example after example. In fact, by the end of the article, students are likely terrified that Geico insurance agents are roaming through Facebook looking for evidence to raise their insurance rates, or that their friends will sue them for defamation or libel after posting a bad picture. More likely, because of the unrealistic claim of effect, students filed the information in their trash bin, assuming that the University just does n...
In Betty White’s opening monologue to Saturday Night Live, she said, “I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that’s only because I’m polite.” Originally intended for the use of students at Harvard University in 2004, Facebook grew exponentially to be an online phenomenon in the years following. In 2006, it became accessible to anyone and everyone with internet connection. Aside from the advantages that give the site its popularity, creating a profile comes with a number of significant disadvantages inherit to online social networks. What do more than 500 million active users use their Facebook for? Communicating with long distance friends and spreading awareness of causes are common responses. Unfortunately, Facebook has it flaws, from limiting the privacy of relationships to creating a form of almost unmanageable bullying, making one reconsider their involvement and think, “do I really want my Facebook account?”
Facebook holds several uses and features for its users. When one joins a social networking site, they make a unique profile that showcases information about him or her, like a birthday or a current relationship status. From there, he or she can “add friends” that they can search for on the website. This gives them access to his or her profile, allowing them to see everything that had created since joining and vice-versa (Dwyer 1). It is extremely common nowadays to have a Facebook profile with many friends linked to you who can see your status updates, photos, and even the places you ...
With more than 500 million active users, the site is a warehouse of personal information. Personal profiles allow users to provide information about their name, age, hometown, relationship status, activities, job, school, and more. They can connect with the others’ profiles and become ”friends”. Combined with a profile picture, you can pretty much learn anything you want to know about somebody over Facebook (should they choose to provide the information). However, what many users fail to realize is that in most cases this information is not only available to their “friends”. Though users can change their privacy settings to limit with whom their profile information is shared, the site gathers and stores more than most of us want to acknowledge. For instance, the Facebook “Like” butto...
In an article “Journal of Computer-mediated Communication” Dr.Bernhard Debarin argues that, a smart data thief can exploit user’s information on Facebook with relative ease. If a person completely provide all their privacy informations without a second thought, they are likely to get punished for it. Get ready to face the consequences, because any context or information people put on Facebook will remain there forever, and exposed to the public. For example, one can steal others ' information by becoming a friend with them or join as a group member who shares same interest or idea. Furthermore, The act of posting number, address, schedule, and date of birth can lead to unintended consequences, because third-parties, hacker, and stalker will always find way to abuse users’ personal