The Facebook Effect: The Impact Of Facebook And Social Media

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Facebook is one of the most common social website that connects people with their friends and family. Facebook has a unique way of sharing information, including news feeds, photos, and a contact between people, which makes it very popular. In the book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is connecting the World, Kirkpatrick mentioned that, “Social networking has now extended across the entire planet. Facebook is the world’s largest such network. It is the rare high school and college student who does not routinely use Facebook or MySpace” (85). It has been part of the popular culture since 2004 and implement many features like “liking” someone status or photos, and private messaging loved by millions of people all over …show more content…

This gives access to track the person with their recent activities on their Facebook and could make the victim of crime act. There are some societies where girls don’t reveal their personal information to the stranger people and on doing so they could be harshly punished. As Kirkpatrick noted, “In the United States, people take a certain amount of transparency and freedom of speech for granted, but it comes at great cost in some other cultures. When a father in Saudi Arabia caught his daughter interacting with men on Facebook, he killed her” (279). Such cases are very rare where a crime takes place due to Facebook. In contrast, Steven Levy notes in the article on “Facebook grows up” …show more content…

The innovation of advanced technology in modern devices like smartphones or laptops has increased the usage of Internet. “Facebook did not change the college life, but it changed the lives of the early adopters… many of whom were in college. We’re entering a phase where every single day we have more people over 25 entering Facebook than any other demographic” (Levy 370). It is addicting with some useful and helpful tool, but can be harmful too. Youths are the ones who will be controlling the nation so they need to be trained and qualified, but the use of Facebook and other sites is directing them in different path. In addition, sometime the discrimination of certain religions, nationality could lead it into a big issue, which will directly and indirectly affect the thoughts of adults. It is the source of distraction for them while studying so such kind of culture must be taken seriously. In order to prevent, youth must be educated in about awareness and seriousness of social

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