Facebook Lifestyles

Social Networking plays an important role within our global society. It allows individuals to connect with each other, keep in touch with old friends, and gives society the ability to explore your interests and hobbies. The famous social networking site, Facebook, has swept the social media scene since its establishment in 2004. Recently, Facebook has accumulated billions of dollars in the global market. Shandi Raice reports that Facebook’s worth will rise to 140 billion dollars by 2015. Mark Zuckerberg, the creater of Facebook, was named Time magazines man of the year in 2010. Zuckerberg created this social network in the dorm room of Harvard University and the network spread like wildfire. The website spread rapidly throughout the university. Harvard University shut the program down because the massive amount of students attempting to access the website was preventing the Internet to be accessed by the students with the students attempting to log into Facebook. Facebook was started solely for a system of connection for Harvard students, and soon established itself as the primary social network among the Ivy League Universities. Zuckerberg states in an interview his reasoning for establishment of Facebook, “It is not because the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people.” Cite Zuckerberg’s primary goal for Facebook was to connect people with an access to open information on one another but can this easy access of personal profiles benefit society? Do these profiles really display information about their users? Can the user determine who they want to be rather than who they actually are? In this report, I will be discussing the negative effects social...

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