Pros And Disadvantages Of Facebook

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

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