“Facebook becomes dangerous” How much is too much information when it comes to sharing on Facebook? Many people have at least one Facebook account. Adults use Facebook to keep in touch with their high school friends, co- workers or with others involved in their lives. Teenagers use Facebook to connect with their friends and post documentation of their life by posting pictures and statuses. Facebook is the most popular social media site for people in all ages, but many of them don’t realize what danger Facebook can bring. That could be robbery, identity theft, Facebook addiction, or even kidnapping. If we want to make an easy target of ourselves for thieves, the simplest way to do so is to share our location information on the Facebook board. …show more content…
Spending more and more time with Facebook can lead to the next danger that Facebook brings- an “addiction”. It is a fact that the more an individual uses Facebook, the more likely he is going to suffer from mental health issues. Someone will ask: “What is wrong with using Facebook frequently? It is only one of the forms of entertainment!” There is nothing wrong; however we have to be careful, because this form of entertainment can easily interfere in our everyday life and become highly dangerous and could lead to addiction.
The first sign of “Facebook addiction” is checking Facebook whenever possible. This means fulfilling the free time on checking news, feeds, and comments. It’s choosing Facebook instead of different, more constructive activity. People with that kind of behavior are often distracted and find it hard to be fully present at the moments in real life. Moreover, they take significantly more time to complete simple tasks and they are constantly diverted to some Facebook notifications and
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Apart from the fact that Facebook gives an opportunity for using many addictive games such as Gourmet Ranch, Dessert Shop, Farmville, and Chefville; many Facebook users sacrifice their sleep hours for surfing on that social network to satisfy the Facebook cravings. Consequently, the lack of sleep affects their performance at work, school, and home. Continuing that kind of behavior eventually will lead to so called “Facebook addiction”. Facebook addiction often occurs because some users are constantly pleased with that the social media site has to offer them. Checking the site can become a compulsion for some users. For these people being off of Facebook causes them anxiety in their lives. The addiction many people feel to Facebook became so frequent in today’s society that Facebook Addiction Disorder is recognized by psychologists throughout the United
...ithout a doubt, a very robust and secure application. Developers and analysts are always taking the needs of users into consideration, when expanding upon their platform. It is clear, however that there are still holes in Facebook's security and privacy which are in need of filling. Without a doubt there are feasible solutions to these problems, whether it is through user instruction, a simple change to default settings, or additional functionality within the platform. Each of the ideas presented is a realistic solution to Facebook's privacy concerns, and puts the idea of a more secure and personal, online identity into the hands of millions.
Facebook privacy and security have many benefits, problems, and challenges. There is a benefit for every security setting on Facebook but the real concern comes along when it comes to facing the problem and how this problem goes into different steps of challenges, and how we can fix that problem in order for privacy not to be a huge issue. A person that has access to Facebook wants to share their everyday moments to the world such as sharing personal posts, photos and videos, and that’s what Facebook is basically known for.
With more than 500 million active users, the site is a warehouse of personal information. Personal profiles allow users to provide information about their name, age, hometown, relationship status, activities, job, school, and more. They can connect with the others’ profiles and become ”friends”. Combined with a profile picture, you can pretty much learn anything you want to know about somebody over Facebook (should they choose to provide the information). However, what many users fail to realize is that in most cases this information is not only available to their “friends”. Though users can change their privacy settings to limit with whom their profile information is shared, the site gathers and stores more than most of us want to acknowledge. For instance, the Facebook “Like” butto...
To begin with, social media has been proven to be a dangerous addiction due to the many negative side effects like: sleep deprivation, and self-esteem problems. Most of the adult American population is connected to some sort of social media site, and they have joined the banned wagon of people whom check their social media accounts at least five times a day. Using social media to often can be time consuming and essentially causes sleep deprivation because the user stays up late on social media. Since social media has grown in popularity many have began to believe that social media is a life necessity. It is viewed by many as a daily necessity like brushing our teeth, or yet as important as eating. People whom are constantly on social media have been linked to develop self-esteem problems because they are so consumed on pretending and portraying this image of a person they are not. Social media has became such an addiction that many people wake up and the first thing they do is...
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The first aspect being addressed is the problem with social network sites exposing information. Social networking has created an environment where it is nearly a duty to expose oneself. Profiles on these social websites are updated everyday with personal information such as locations, status, and future plans. Anyone can search another’s name and find information about their history, pictures, and activity. With the help of social networking sites...
First of all, there are several reasons as to why social media has the potential to be extremely addictive to users. Many believe that “as in the case of other types of addiction[s], there are
Many people use social networks everyday as a way to share their personal lives with their friends or followers. Many people are culprits of oversharing personal information on social networks. Oversharing is when one reveals an unacceptable amount of information which may or may not be inappropriate. Also what most seem to fail to remember is that whatever is posted online, stays online forever. The main social networks that are victims of oversharing include Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. “Communities are outraged by the personal information posted by young people online and colleges keep track of student activities on and off campus. The posting of personal information by teens and students has consequences” (Barnes 1). While oversharing
Facebook holds several uses and features for its users. When one joins a social networking site, they make a unique profile that showcases information about him or her, like a birthday or a current relationship status. From there, he or she can “add friends” that they can search for on the website. This gives them access to his or her profile, allowing them to see everything that had created since joining and vice-versa (Dwyer 1). It is extremely common nowadays to have a Facebook profile with many friends linked to you who can see your status updates, photos, and even the places you ...
Facebook is the largest Social Media tool available to business today. Currently Facebook has 1,310,000,000 active monthly users ("Facebook Statistics | Statistic Brain", 2014, para. 1). Many of these users are becoming addicted to this site and it’s b...
Just as MySpace has online predators, Facebook may have some too. Some Facebook users have profiles with personal information that are visible to everyone. AOL screen names, phone numbers, and even addresses are posted on the site. Police are now looking into Facebook because a few convicted sex offenders have registered on the site.
Facebook is starting to get some people scared or creeped out because there has been so many stalkers on facebook lately, and people are worried about there children. “It's the basic question Facebook asks more than 500 million of us. And of course we answer. Some of us give detailed responses. Others give very detailed responses. But we join, in part, because we want to connect.” The children and everyone on facebook like to tell people what they are doing and where they are doing thing, and the problem is everyone can possibly see this. Facebook has a new thing where you can check-in at a place from your phone, and it sends to facebook, and tells people exactly where you are at on a map so everyone can see where you are exactly located. People think this is not good for children and just not good at all, because they don’t want people knowing their exact location. "I think it'd be a lot of fun, I do, but as far as what we've talked about for children, that might be a little, yeah, it wouldn't.
All in all, the popularity of social networking sites depends on copycat effect during people, convenience in themselves, and their good functions. When social networking sites are becoming an important part of people’s life, people should learn to make the most of these sites instead of wasting time. In other words, people are supposed to use social networking sites temperately but not be addicted to them. It is unwise to let the normal life of people be influenced by these sites. Remember that social networking sites are the joys of the life, but they are not all of the life.
The issues caused by online privacy are growing with the increase of Social Networking Sites. Virtually all Social Networking Sites have ‘public’ as their default privacy setting, however that is not what the majority of users prefer. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project & American Life, 80 % of the users go to the effort to change their settings to private. With the increasing awareness of cyber – crime and the need for privacy, users have now started to rethink their actions online. Carefully selecting whom among your Facebook friends see your personal information, and who should be restricted, blocked or unfriended.
Facebook is beneficial to one's social life because they can continuously stay in contact with their friends and relatives, while others say that it can cause increased antisocial tendencies because people are not directly communicating with each other. But some argue that Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. Users can upload pictures, update statuses, play games, get news, add people, like and share photos, videos, memes