How Has Facebook Changed Society

Facebook has become one of the main innovations of our society. For the past several years, this has been the way of life for most people. Facebook has changed society in many ways; some ways are good and others not so good. Many ways of communication has changed, the way people make friends, and the way we look at ourselves have all changed because of Facebook. Facebook is the main source of keeping up with old friends or even making new ones. “Facebook and Friendships” Alex Souvannavong states that “Facebook has changed the world allowing people to interact with each other no matter where they are.” (Paragraph 1) Yet, even though Facebook helps, it also could hurt friendships. Facebook has helped to building up friendships and helping

A teen, bluebugg77, which has first-hand experience with Facebook, wrote an article about Facebook communication called “Facebook Communication”, where she writes that Facebook makes it easier to get in touch with people, help colleges scout people out, and even says that Facebook communication is better than face-to-face communication. Facebook Communication helps you get in touch with many old friends. Bluebugg77 stated, “Facebook provides vast opportunities to reconnect with past friends or to allow shy people the opportunity to socialize with others.” (Paragraph 1) Getting to reconnect with your old friends is exactly what someone may need now in their life, and Facebook helped with that. Facebook also gives colleges and jobs many opportunities to look at what kind of person you are, because if you post something they do not like, they might not want someone that post those kinds of words or pictures to work or go to their college. Bluebugg77 says, “We need to be careful about what we put on Facebook because it could affect us for the rest of our lives.” (Paragraph 2) Bluebugg77 could not have said that any better. While Facebook is great for communication, if you put something on Facebook, you do not want someone seeing then the internet in general is not a place to be putting your business on. Lastly, the article is very big on how communication is better online than face-to-face

In “Is Facebook damaging your brain and health” she wrote that Facebook has a very big problem with being linked to depression and if not solved many people could be ruined by it. Facebook makes it hard to focus on work, or even create time for your family, just because everyone would rather be on Facebook. Jan stated, “Most of the time Facebook seems pretty harmless but have you ever stopped to consider the negative effects Facebook may have on your health, productivity and person identity. Facebook also caused many people to become self-obsessed or even addicted. Many people get the disorder called Narcissism, which makes people come off like they are better than everyone else does or being very arrogant. Most people put on Facebook like “Just ate a grilled cheese” or “I passed my history final” and mostly for attention. The main thing that Facebook causes is the way we treat ourselves. Facebook is linked to depression with everyone wanting attention they just post things like “I’m having a bad day.” Which can lead then to truly beginning to have a bad day. Jan states something that is said very often by most teens in today’s society. “Everyone is happy. What’s wrong with me?” (Paragraph 5) Many teens believe that because they do not look like someone on Facebook that they are not good enough, which helps lead many teens to feeling