Positive And Negative Effects Of Facebook Essay

Nowadays, people use network more often that the previous years. They check their e-mails, Facebook, twitter, and other social media applications, and they use the network at their work. The use of network has increased in the past generation because of the smartphones that have access to the "network." Students also use it to do research for their university assignments. Even old people use network to read the news or check their stuff. The use of the internet has many positive effects for everybody. They can stay in touch with other friends and family around the world, and they also can stay tuned to what happens locally and internationally, but there are many negative effects of using social media. The two articles “How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy” by Maria Konnikova, and “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” by

In Kuwait, social media applications such as: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are the most used applications. People use them every day and every minute they can. Students who use them cannot focus on their studies because they waste their time on social media. I use my cellphone a lot to check my e-mail, Facebook, twitter, and Instagram every moment I can even when I drive. This addiction can cause many problems for us. Furthermore, I think that social media needs to have a time in our daily life because it is a way to entertain ourselves, but we need to control the time we waste on it.

I think that I may stay to the topic because it is an interested topic that shows something real that I see and notice every day. Although that both topics are interesting, I would like to use Konnikova’s article because it is more academic and it has more information than the other one. I also can add some points on how social media is affecting our health, and put some statistics on how social have grown in the past