In todays society social networking is
something that just about everyone uses to communicate with one
another. While Myspace was before Facebook, it is said that Facebook
has taken us to a whole new level with its new medium which allows us
to communicate with anyone around the world.
Like most things in our society they
come with both positive and negative effects, but most of which are
still being learned or studied by researchers. Although I honestly
don’t think there are any positives effects that Facebook has on
our society, all but one, I do believe that it does have more
negatives.
However I did find two positive effects
that Facebook may have on our society or even on us as individuals.
The first being the most well known stated in an article from the
Detroit Free Press 2014, by Marco della Cava: “10 Years Later: How
Facebook Changed Our Lives” is that Facebook is a platform for
people to connect over long distances or even reconnect over lost
years. This helps our society especially who in America have family
all over the world and allows them to communicate wherever whenever.
Although it was tough another positive you could say about Facebook
is that it allows people who don’t have many friends to be able to
find new ones. For instance, Jhon S Lam, from homebiz.bukiki.com
shares that shy people for example may find it helpful in social
interaction to make friends and share their thoughts easily rather
than person to person.
For the many negative effects that I
believe Facebook bring to our society as a whole two really stood out
to me. The first being is that it can be a very big distraction. Like
most things in life distractions are all around us and its up to us
as decision makers to decide whether or not something is worth our
time. I truly believe that time wasted on Facebook could be used for
something better, something that can benefit you in life, rather than
looking up what Johnny is doing on Tuesday night. According to BBC
News: Technology, in an article posted on August 15, 2013 titled
“Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'”, it is
said that Facebook can cause negative psychological consequences to
ones life. In this study results found that the more people used
Facebook, the worse they felt afterwards, and that the more
participants used the site the more their life satisfaction levels
declined.
To me the negatives definitely outweigh
the positives because the only thing that could be beneficial to
people is that they have that platform to be able to communicate with
one another and thats it. I think that Facebook is just another
distraction in this busy world and for my own personal use doesn’t
help me in any way. I deactivated my Facebook account over a year ago
and I most likely will not go back to it only because I know that I
can be without it and be okay with that.
Work Cited:
Detroit Free Press:
BBC:
Positive and Negative Effects of
Facebook on Our Society
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