Facebook is one of the most common social website that connects people with their friends and family. Facebook has a unique way of sharing information, including news feeds, photos, and a contact between people, which makes it very popular. In the book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is connecting the World, Kirkpatrick mentioned that, “Social networking has now extended across the entire planet. Facebook is the world’s largest such network. It is the rare high school and college student who does not routinely use Facebook or MySpace” (85). It has been part of the popular culture since 2004 and implement many features like “liking” someone status or photos, and private messaging loved by millions of people all over …show more content…
This gives access to track the person with their recent activities on their Facebook and could make the victim of crime act. There are some societies where girls don’t reveal their personal information to the stranger people and on doing so they could be harshly punished. As Kirkpatrick noted, “In the United States, people take a certain amount of transparency and freedom of speech for granted, but it comes at great cost in some other cultures. When a father in Saudi Arabia caught his daughter interacting with men on Facebook, he killed her” (279). Such cases are very rare where a crime takes place due to Facebook. In contrast, Steven Levy notes in the article on “Facebook grows up” …show more content…
The innovation of advanced technology in modern devices like smartphones or laptops has increased the usage of Internet. “Facebook did not change the college life, but it changed the lives of the early adopters… many of whom were in college. We’re entering a phase where every single day we have more people over 25 entering Facebook than any other demographic” (Levy 370). It is addicting with some useful and helpful tool, but can be harmful too. Youths are the ones who will be controlling the nation so they need to be trained and qualified, but the use of Facebook and other sites is directing them in different path. In addition, sometime the discrimination of certain religions, nationality could lead it into a big issue, which will directly and indirectly affect the thoughts of adults. It is the source of distraction for them while studying so such kind of culture must be taken seriously. In order to prevent, youth must be educated in about awareness and seriousness of social
In this essay, Damodar analyzes the connection between the social media and the youth, the technologies do for youth and youth activities, and how importance of Internet working for the youth. She expound that the wrong action include bad
One of the most popular social networking websites today is none other than Facebook. People use Facebook in order to stay connected with their friends, family and the people around them, to discover what’s going in the world, in addition to share and express what matters to them. The Social Network is a film on how Facebook was created. There was a series of events, character development, relationships and a series of different emotions that are shown throughout the film.
How the social networking influents young people’s psychological well-being? Since the World Wide Web appeared in the world in the year of 1991, the internet has significantly changed people’s life on almost every level. Especially when the social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, became popular during the last decade, people’s lifestyles have greatly changed by this form of communication, which consequently brings many psychological effects on the young people. As the result, according to the recent researches, the teenagers and the young adults in this era are bearing many mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and addiction, due to the social
A study that was done in 2009, showed that 73 percent of all adults older than the age of 18 had Facebook profiles. (Percentage of adult users who maintain profiles on selected social networking sites, by age group, 2009.) This shows that most people in the world use Facebook on a daily basis. Facebook allows you to post statuses about how you feel, what you are doing, or even where you are. Users that are interested in those things may be your friends, family, or other users that find the same things interesting. Posting things to your wall can help you stay connected to the world, unless your profile is private, because it tells people what you are up to. Users that are interested in what you have to say will reply to your post. Replying to people’s post could potentially lead to another conversation that you guys would have in common, which then can lead to a new relationship.
In this day and age, many individuals simply cannot go without some sort of socialization. Specifically speaking, most participate in online social networking sites. The most popular and used one is commonly known as Facebook. Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. By 2007, Facebook had over 21 million users, adding up to 1.6 billion page views every single day. The typical user spends over twenty minutes per day on Facebook and two thirds of the users log in every day at least once. It is not questionable as to why many people have a Facebook account. Facebook is generally efficient, easy for socialization, and not difficult to manage. Most organizations are affiliated with Facebook, as “almost 22,000 organizations had Facebook directories,” as of November 2006. A year after that in 2007, Facebook was named the seventh most popular website (Ellison 1). However, with anything well known, many oppose to using Facebook and hold criticism against the popular network. There are many flaws in the website and the relationships it starts online. Facebook is risking dangerous activities, ignoring privacy laws, and demeaning healthy socialization.
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.
Social Media has become a very essential tool in the society; in addition, it has a huge impact on communication and learning process. Social media is defined as websites and applications used for social networking. “As of September 2013, seventy-one percent of online adult use Facebook, eighteen percent use Twitter and seventeen percent use Instagram, twenty-two percent use PInterest, and another twenty-two percent use LinkedIn. (PewReasearch, 2013). In addition, "Between February 2005 and August 2006, the use of social networking sites among young adult internet user ages eighteen and twenty-nine jumped from nine percent to forty-nine percent. The usage of social media had grown drastically.” On social media sites like these, users may develop biographical profiles, communicate with friends and strangers, do research, and share thoughts, photos, music, links, and more” (Socialnetworking.procon,2012). Social media has impacted everyone in several different ways. In this present time, majority of college student use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Social media has a bold impact college student's grades, social interactions, and the teaching and learning process.
...ending much time on social networking sites affects people’s work and study, and people will become more and more isolated from their friends in real life. Moreover, it is difficult to protect users’ privacy on social networking sites, so it may result in the risk of revealing person details.
Social media is a controversy topic in today’s society. Some people think that social media destroys human interaction and real life human relationships. While others think that social media is a bless to humanity. Social media makes human interaction much more convenient and much faster than real life human interaction, it makes globalization a reality, it gives a chance for introverted people to express themselves, and it also benefit develop international relationships whether its business or social.
First of all, Facebook is a social network, which means it connects people around the world, allows us to make new friends around the world, builds more relationships, brings some new colors to life. It is very beneficial for
As in real life, teenagers are very shy of what is coming out of their mouth, but in social media, it’s the opposite, “Social media is preventing us from standing up for ourselves the way we should be” (Thaiatizickas). Facebook is a convenient way to contact a long distance relative or friends, but teenagers are depending on it too much that make them lacked face to face communication. Social media such as Facebook limits the face to face interaction between humankind. Technology has a huge impact on human life and some may take them as an advantage and disadvantage. Many believed that the digital world is their real life and they can meet and talk to whoever they want through messenger and video calls. Teenagers often say the things that they wanted to say through social media, “they are sending messages and content that they would never share at school, often using language that they would never say to someone’s face, a language that, if used with classmates at school, would lead to disciplinary action” (journal by Steiner-Adair). Compare to the previous generations, the younger generations have the effects on social networking that cause them to grow up differently. Social media are now destroying teenagers’ social skills as well as the future
With enormous scope and flexibility Facebook is a widely acceptable networking site for people to keep in touch their friends and families, share experiences, strengthen social interactions and gather information. It may exert some privacy, internet addiction and technology abusive issues. However, the positive impact of Facebook outweighs the negatives as it helps to build up a communicative and informative society. Our new generation of Facebook users will certainly conquer the factual challenges on the way to their community, family and professional triumph.
Facebook is beneficial to one's social life because they can continuously stay in contact with their friends and relatives, while others say that it can cause increased antisocial tendencies because people are not directly communicating with each other. But some argue that Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. Users can upload pictures, update statuses, play games, get news, add people, like and share photos, videos, memes
Masuma Ahuja, journalist from the Washington Post, said “Teens today, also known as the Facebook Generation or ‘digital natives,’ are part of the first U.S. generation to be so closely identified with technology (Ahuja 3).” Many people believe that social media tends to distract students. With the increasing technological advances, students are encouraged and even required to take part in social media. Social media is a part almost many aspects of a teens life. Social media applications such as Instagram, twitter, snap chat, Facebook, vine, and many more are changing the way teens are interacting which can result in academic struggles. Social media is having a negative affect on students by distracting them from their work and prohibiting them from using their full potential in the classroom and at home.
Nowadays the technology have great impact on our life. Life without computer, without some electronic gadgets and of course without internet seems unreal. Internet used by different people which purposes also different: online banking, online shopping, communication with friends, play videogames an so on. Young generation, I mean teenagers can not imagine their days, homework without one of the most significant modern technology – Internet. That is why young people play the vital role when we talk about influence nowadays technology. When we say about teenagers social life the first thing which came to my mind was social networking, especially all online chats, social networks. I am interesting in this topic because I use internet communication very often. Before doing Global Perspectives I do not exactly thing about this problem but now I take thought about how it affect on our life (teenagers life) and does this affect positive or negative? That is why I choose this topic.