Essay on Facebook Good or Bad?
Keeping in touch with family and friends- Facebook is a great way to keep in touch
with your family and friends that live far away. With instant messaging and even
video chat, Facebook is the perfect place to stay connected. With the status updates,
photos, and profile information, it can keep you up to date on the happenings of all of
your close ones. Making new friends- Facebook makes meeting new people
extremely easy due to the fact that it allows you to add up to thousands of friends,
and acts as a social melting pot of the internet. If you comment on someone’s picture
then someone else but at the same time you gotta know when to stop using it and do
the most important things.
Nearly 85 percent of college students log on to Facebook every day according to
“techrunch.com” The social networking site has become an addiction for many.
Instead of students concentrating on their homework or studying for a big test the
next day, they are spending hours looking through pictures, answering their page
comments, and chatting with friends on the site’s instant messenger. Facebook has
consumed good grades and face-to-face communication is in jeopardy. when we are
connected online there is always something to talk about but when we are face 2
face its like there is nothing to talk about and it’s almost becomes awkward to make
conversations with each out social media.social media is really coming in between
us and our real friends because we have lost what it means to have a normal
conversation with out the social media.
Cyber-bullying- On Facebook it is very easy for cyber bullies to thrive. They can
harass and/or gang up on one person even easier than they could in a school
environment. There aren’t moderators that go around monitoring what people say to
each other. Anything can be said. There are also a relatively small amount of parents
that have Facebook accounts and keep up with their children’s. More than once I’ve
witnessed this form of bullying, whether it be about race, appearance, intelligence,
etc.
Ruined relationships- Facebook is notorious for causing couples to break up. Let’s
face it, no one wants to see their girlfriend/boyfriend telling other people that they
look cute, or liking their pictures, or instant messaging them constantly. It builds up
jealousy, which causes quite a bit of tension in a relationship. The fact that many
people try to hook up with others over Facebook while not realizing that these people
are in a relationship doesn’t help the issue. Insecurity- Facebook is a cause for
insecurities due to the fact that it makes people compare themselves to others.