In 2004, a social networking service launched Facebook. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with a few of his college friends. It allows its users to create their own profiles, add friends and/or family, create posts, and much more. The amount of users has skyrocketed through the past few years and continues to do so. Although, Facebook can be positive in so many ways, it also has its negative aspects. The average Facebook user spends forty minutes or more on Facebook each day. There are many individuals whose lives revolve around the use of social media and Facebook just so happens to become addicting to some. Generally when I think of Facebook, I think of posts. People will post anything and everything from the time they get …show more content…
Social media along with the internet is something you can never be too careful about. Facebook can be a dangerous lurking ground for predators. When talking to someone over the internet you have to make sure you are extremely careful about exactly who is on the other side. It’s full of strangers and while you’re taught not to speak to strangers in public, it is kind of hard to avoid them on social media. Another down fall about Facebook is that people’s lives are starting to revolve around social media especially kids. With that being said, the obesity rate in the United States has done nothing but rise over the years. Part of this has to do with kids and young adults not being active due to social media and video games. More and more kids choose to be lazy and stay indoors rather than go outside and play. Facebook also opens up a door for cyber bullying. Every year we lose more and more people as a result of cyber bullying. This can also lead to self-hate. In the article, “Is Facebook Making Us Sad?”, Copeland states, “As Meghan O’Rourke has noted here in Slate, women’s happiness has been at an all-time low in recent years…If you’re already inclined to compare your own decisions to those of other women and to find yours wanting, believing that others are happier with their choices than they actually are is likely to increase your own sense of inadequacy.” (Copeland
Mark Zuckerberg, an undergraduate student from Harvard University, in 2004 created one of the most popular social networking in the world, Facebook. Zuckerberg used his sophomoric sense of humor “that led him to create the site as a type of "hot or not" game for Harvard students, where website visitors could compare two student photos side-by-side and let viewers decide who was "hot" and who was "not".” (Bellis). Facebook became extremely popular in Harvard, so it extended to other universities such as Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. A year later its creation Facebook became available to high-school students and a year later, in 2006, it became available to everyone with a valid email address and above the age of thirteen. As of May 2, 2013 Facebook reached 1.11 billion users in the world and it is available in seventy different languages. (Wikipedia). The United States is the country with the most Facebook users in the world with almost one hundred sixty six million users. From its creation time to present days, Facebook has significantly developed and gradually became an important elem...
Firstly, Facebook is a social tool that permits people to understand the continuously “updated version” of the world around them and let them feel to be part of it. People subscribe to the social network because they need to stay in tou...
Created in 2004, by 2007 Facebook was reported to have more than 21 million registered members generating 1.6 billion page views each day (Ellison, 2007). Membership to the newly created social network site was restricted to students at Harvard but soon expanded to include students from other colleges and universities. Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step (Wikipedia, 2011).finally, on September 26, 2006, Facebook became available to everyone age 13 and older with a valid email address. Most participants log on at least once a day. Personally, I long on at least once a day and spend about 5 to 10 minutes checking my messages, posting a comment, and replying to invitations and comments. When I first crea...
Facebook is a type of social networking service which was created by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. At first, it was limited to few people but in 2006 it began to include everyone's membership. Currently, this website has 90 million active users according to Facebook's Press Room. Facebook helps people to communicate with others, to share their photos and information. But if we put a glance we can clearly see that Facebook seems to be destructive on the other hand. It causes depression, relationship failure, and time consumption.
There is no denying that social networking is an integral part of modern society. We spend all day updating our statuses about the latest episode of True Blood, or liking our friends’ photographs from their recent trips abroad. Our language has evolved to include words like “vlogging” and “tweeting” (which mean video blogging and posting to Twitter, respectively). Our “feeds” are linked to our cell phones, so they become available at the touch of a button. Social networking websites such as Facebook enable the world to constantly be connected; making the old ideas of groups (book clubs and tea parties, anyone?) seem vintage and obsolete.
Today’s society is centered around social media, not just for sharing photos, articles, funny videos you see online, but to keep in touch with those near and far with a push of a button. We come to a day and age where you can be anywhere on the planet and still be able to message your best friend who is sitting in their house thousands of miles away. I will admit that I love using social media because I can see what my friends are up to and keep up to date with today’s problems. Everyone from teenagers to the elderly use Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to show others what they may be up to or what they may have seen online. But the big question is “Is Facebook a fad?”.
Facebook is a very popular social network website that allow users to create their profiles, upload their photos, video, send messages and keep in touch with our friends, family and colleagues. Facebook
“ Out of these nine million users, 70% are aged 25 years or younger, while male users are 6.4 million in number and females 2.7 million. » For the younger generation it is almost unthinkable to study without Facebook. It became a tool of everyday life and a mirror of social communication. Despite, several advantages, Facebook became a source of debate. Most of young users do not realize negative impact on their physical, psychological and social
Facebook is the perfect social networking site. It connects you with people from all around the world. Family and friends can use it to keep in touch and share with each other. But now, it has become a dark place full of things that seem fake but are all too real.
Spending more and more time with Facebook can lead to the next danger that Facebook brings- an “addiction”. It is a fact that the more an individual uses Facebook, the more likely he is going to suffer from mental health issues. Someone will ask: “What is wrong with using Facebook frequently? It is only one of the forms of entertainment!” There is nothing wrong; however we have to be careful, because this form of entertainment can easily interfere in our everyday life and become highly dangerous and could lead to addiction.
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 ...
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.
I think Facebook is an great tool to connect with others and share creatively, emotionally, and so on. One can communicate with a long lost friend while listening to their favorite music and reading about the latest gossip within the celebrity world. One may find inspiration through Facebook to teach others or help victims of the latest natural disaster by reading a news article relating to the event. Or one my change their occupation by seeing jobs posted through their Facebook or maybe someone just wants to imitate the newest socialite making headlines from their posts. Either way, one uses Facebook to feel connected with the world around them and interact with people they feel that share this same ideal of digital significance. We are still in the beginning stages of this forever evolving digital culture and I am sure we will witness the next great technological device or new source of new media that will change everything. I feel if things progress in the way they already are we will literally be able to do and see anything and everything within minuets from our mobile devices. We will know and see whatever we want and be connected to whomever we want to socially connect to. I am just waiting for the day when we can actually block people in real life or
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, out of which 241 million users are from India alone which shows that Facebook has its highest number of users from India. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.
Social networking sites like Facebook can have both negative and positive effects. Facebook can leave us feeling like we are not good enough if we don’t have enough likes on our pictures or if we do not have a certain amount of friends. While on the other hand it can make us feel empowered and worthy when we have a significant amount of likes on our picture and thousands of friends on Facebook. The following two articles argue whether or not social networking sites like Facebook, have a negative or positive effect on one’s overall well-being. As the old saying goes, there are always two sides to everything.