Facebook is one of the most famous social networking services and websites. It launched in February 2004, and it is operated and privately owned by Facebook. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. People spend a great deal of time sharing private videos and pointless status updates on their profile. We cannot deny the fact that facebook has helped many people learn and stay connected with each other, and has helped to make the world more progressive towards becoming one nation. However, it has countless disadvantages which have touched almost everyone in the world. Many people advise that Facebook and social media should be monitored for several reasons. Facebook contributes to cyber-bullying and other crimes among teenagers and children, negatively impacts productivities in the workplace and sometimes provokes instability in some vulnerable countries.
First of all, the number of children who use facebook and social media has been dramatically increasing according to the research, carried out by the London School of Economics for the European Commission, was based on a survey of 25,000 young people - aged between nine and 16- from across Europe. As a result of this, countless cybercrimes among children are overwhelmingly growing according to the Bullying Statistics Website. For example, children may be lured into abusive relationships with unknown people are interacting with online. Another crime which is related to children and teenagers who use facebook and social media concerns their ability to talk to strangers. Many children utilize facebook and other social media as a mean of making new friends. This is scary idea because there are no guarantees that the new friends use their real profile and c...
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...rumours are spread by facebook pages which belong to an electronic army which is in favour of the previous political regime, and the electronic army use facebook and other social media as weapons to spread unproven information. For example, they recently announced that there would be a shortage of fuel in the upcoming days so that all the gas stations were full of people, causing a lot of turmoil and violence. Most of the Libyan people called for the government to monitor facebook and other social media, and recently, our government has made a motion that facebook and social media should be monitored for the time being until our country becomes more stable.
In a nutshell, facebook and social media should monitored because they contribute to cyber-bullying and other crimes, affect workplace productivity, and finally, causes instability in some vulnerable countries.
Therefore, Facebook is powered by a curiosity that feeds one’s desire to know about their friends and therefore perform surveillance activities. We are all encouraged to be “Facebook stalkers” and to expose ourselves, getting rid of our privacy and making room for visibility. Social media is more than keeping touch with friends and family, it is about curiosity, surveillance and control. We are constantly being monitored and monitoring others. Social media has made us willingly become visible to anyone who wants to observe, putting our privacy at stake, as we also reinforce this behaviour by doing the same to others. It has become a perfect monitoring system, as everyone is aware of what everyone else is doing with their lives in a very entertaining and addictive manner.
Who would have thought that in a few years facebook will become the main social meeting place for millions of people around the world? Facebook, is a social phenomenon with a dimensionless scale effects both positive and negative. Facebook has also generated interest among scholars and researchers who study its effects on the different layers of our life. As many studies suggested and my own life experience, Facebook can have some negative impact on romantic relationships, self-esteem, identity theft and other dangers to safety that result from an invasion of privacy. There are ways to minimize these negative outcomes, which we should be aware of.
Perhaps, people may already know our name and, if we are part of the same community, they could probably know what we do like. By looking at the last Facebook reports, the users of the popular social network became 1.15 billion in March 2013. After China and India, they represent the third largest country in the world. (The Facebook Blog) According to the inventor of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the social platform is built by simple ideas which permits the world to be more open and connected. However, do we know how much access we permit to our personal information and thoughts? We should admit that since we joined Facebook we were never worried too much about privacy. But now, after many researches and articles came out people are beginning to look with greater interest on this issue. Moreover, privacy is the concept of being free from others’ intrusions, and it has changed relevantly through the advent of social networking. This paper, will in particular analyze how Facebook has influenced individuals and the contemporary society that has being exposed to an enormous number of information through the last years.
One of the obvious benefits of Facebook is that it allows people to strengthen current relationships and create new ones. It makes sense since Facebook’s service is based around the idea of letting you connect with friends, family and acquaintances which would be difficult to do even with modern technology such as cell phones or e-mail. While a cell phone allows you to quickly contact people, it can be laborious to keep tabs if the social group becomes too large. Facebook allows this in a quick and efficient manner. We now can create and keep relationships that would otherwise fall apart. When we leave one off-line community and move to another it doesn’t mean that we want those relationships to dissolve. In fact, one study came to the conclusion that “online interactions do not necessarily remove people from their offline world but may indeed be used to support relationships and keep people in contact, even when life changes move them away from each other” (Ellison). Without Facebook, we would need to spend a large amount of time and energy maintaining or creating long distance relationships but with Facebook, we can easily see what they’re doing, how they feel, what major events are going on in their lives and overall what is going on in their lives and do it efficiently. It doesn’t mean that people are forgoing off-line relationships for online ones, it means that people want to keep the relationships they have, not break them off when they are no longer able to see the person consistently.
Facebook is a social network that lets you post anything you want, like; statuses, pictures, videos. You can see what your friends are doing just by what they post and they can do the same for you. Twitter is about the same when it comes to sharing posts, pictures, etc. but you have a limit of characters for each tweet you send.. These social networks take over a persons’ life because of how much they are on it; but this is only one of few major problems with that come with these networks. There have been cases when people libel one another, trying to ruin each other’s lives. There are teenagers bullying other teenagers on these networks and we call it cyberbullying. Two other major problems are invasion of a person’s privacy and Facebook tracking your every move.
Facebook was originally designed to be a tool which would allow individuals to keep up with their old friends by posting pictures and allowing others to see what was going on in their lives. Some people, specifically teenage girls, exploit Facebook by taking pictures of themselves half-naked or showing too much skin. These individuals are the ones that are not using social media the way it was intended and therefore, causing problems. There are many cases involving sick people that find young girls on Facebook and stalk them. Sometimes the stalki...
On social media people post picture’s, or write statuses, or tweet about things that are going on around our nation. In a study done forty nine percent of users on social media spread unreliable news or have heard false information (“Are Social Networking”). I mean, if you see it on Facebook or Twitter it must be true, right? With social media, it is extremely easy to get people to see things on their side and not show the actual facts which is causing our society to not even look at what the truth may be and just go off of what one person are saying. Another negative impact of social media is the privacy issue. In social media, it encourages users to post personal things or just anything about what is going on in their lives and make it public so anyone could see it. Over billions of users on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter do not have the privacy settings on their networking, which means that anyone can see what they post at any time (Jung). I don’t know what others think, but knowing that some pervert could be out there looking at my pictures and seeing what I’m doing is not a good feeling I want to have. Social networking sites are not good for our privacy or for finding out the truth about
There are 500 million people that are using Facebook today, which is primarily used to keep in touch with old friends and to meet new ones, or it could be a place to express your own feelings and communicate freely. Stern strongly conveyed that “negative experiences identified that there were unwanted messages, stalking, and private information made public. Facebook is an effective and efficient tool for social networking; it helped students learn more about each other.” (9) Social networking is an important part of a person's daily life, social life, but can allow “unwanted messages”. Additionally, Facebook tracks your history and what websites you have accessed, has many cases of cyberbullying, and shows what posts you like. Nearly one in five women and one in ten men on Facebook get stalked in their lifetime. In the United Kingdom it states that “Ms Edgley said her life was ‘ruined’ as she received sinister gifts of a puzzle, a watch and a book with her birthday and her stalker's birthday scrawled on it.” (15) One stalker could potentially ruin your life, self confidence, and
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.
The 21st century has brought a lot of modern ideas, innovations, and technology. One of these is social media. The invention of Facebook has completely changed the way we communicate with one another. Instant messaging, photo sharing, and joining online groups have created a way for families and friends to connect. Some argue that Facebook is the greatest invention however, while it is seemingly harmless, Facebook has created an invasion of privacy. The accessibility of Facebook and its widespread use has created privacy problems for users, teens, and interviewees by allowing easy control to viewers.
Did you remember to tell your cousin happy birthday on Facebook? Do you know how many people liked your latest picture on instagram? Or how many retweets did you get on your totally relatable and borderline inspirational tweet? As of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites (Rainie). Also more than 9 out of 10 American teenagers use social media(Blaszczak). Because of social networking we are becoming more connected than ever before. Important information can spread faster than wildfire, and we now have the ability to have friends and relationships all over the world. With the ability to communicate and interact with anyone at our fingertips what could go wrong? Well...lots of things.
Newspapers and media are full of reports how Facebook is being used for crime, fraud and abuse. It’s because it is easy to make fake id and assume identities which you don’t have to con people. We often read stories in media how Facebook communication resulted in people finding true love and friendship. At the same it’s also true that many got abused in name of love and friendship. Governments and law enforcing agencies have long been advising parents and teachers about the potential child abuse which is happening through Facebook and similar social networking sites. A lot of criminal element has started using Facebook avoiding mainstream telecommunication to avoid
Throughout the past few years, social networking has skyrocketed in popularity. It has taken the population and made it addicted to the internet. Today, people cannot imagine living without the internet, or more specifically, without social networking. There are many different networking sites that are being used; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google+ are all examples. Every one of these sites help the world in some way. People use social networks to chat with friends and keep up with current news. These networks have caused disputes that have people arguing whether or not it has had more positive or negative consequences. Despite multiple negative effects of social networking, overall it is a positive addition to the world because it connects people, encourages more people to get involved, and improves world awareness.
Cyber bullying and online crime must be put at a stop. Parents and teachers should play a great role in regulating what their kids are doing on social media. Parents give their children smart phones, tablets, and computers but they fail to convey the proper way of using those tools. They should teach them the rules of being on social media by telling them from right to wrong. Parents don’t give their children a car to use without telling them the proper rules of how to drive the car. If they don’t teach them how to drive the car then that child wouldn’t know what to do about his or her car and may lead to an accident. This is the same way of how parents should also teach their kids of how to regulate on social media. There are many privacy settings on these social network sites which some kids are not aware off or simply do not care about. We should put an aware of these settings to them and teach them from right to wrong. Parents and teachers should also encourage their kids to come talk to them if they are facing any type of
Facebook, twitter, Google+, etc. comes under Social Network. They are changing the ways in which people use and engage with the internet and with each other. Young people are quick to use the new technology in ways which increasingly difference the boundaries between their offline and online activities. Social Network are also on the rise globally. Over use of this service can stop the creativity among young students as for instance, students now a day’s plagiarize from Google even to solve one simple problem. It can slow down the development of body physically and mentally too. Usually the effects depend on how much you use. During the past few years, social networking has really taken off globally, literally hundreds of millions of people around the world visits social network each month and many are doing so on a daily basis for over twelve hours a day. This indicates it must be controlled before it becomes too late to take action