Social Networking’s Good and Bad Impacts on Kids

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According to Erving Goffman, “When one individual enters the presence of others, he will want to discover the facts of the situation. […]To uncover fully the factual nature of the situation, it would be necessary for the individual to know all the relevant social data about the others.“ (Goffman, 7) Today, thanks to Facebook and social networking, these data can easily end in our hands.
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.
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...

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