FACEBOOK DEPRESSION

Facebook Depression

Facebook Depression

Introduction

Facebook is a site of social networks created by Mark Zuckerberg founded by Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg. Originally it was a site for students studying at Harvard University, but now it is open to anyone with an account email. Users can participate in one or more social networks in relation to their academic status, place of work or geographical region (Wolak & Mitchell, 2003).

Depression is one of the most widespread ailments with over 8 million afflicted people in the US. It is a major cause of suicide claiming about 40,000 American lives every year. The biggest problem with western anti-depressants is their side effects, and you have to take those pills all the time. The depression patients have found acupuncture as a reliable and promising therapy. Acupuncture is a Chinese method that uses thin needles to treat an illness (Wellman & Quan, 2001). There is Chinese saying, emotions are the root of 100 diseases, and depression is an outcome of imbalance in the flow of emotions. These wild emotions can cause stress, indigestion, insomnia, fatigue, pain and sensation of heat. Treating depression with acupuncture calms your spirit and unblocks the emotional stagnation. Some therapists use electro -acupuncture especially to treat the depression patients.

Criticism Reviews on Facebook

Facebook has received all sorts of criticism since reaching global dissemination. Especially because of the scope that is having underage, its psychological effects and its alarming privacy policies. Perhaps the most dramatic expansion of Facebook is changing the habits of mind. At the time, of accepting the contract terms of use of the community, member grants exclusive and perpetual ownership of all information and images that add to the social network. Although CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, to reassure users, who "never use this information out of the Facebook service," (Nie & Erbring, 2000) social network gets right to use this information as desired. On April 21 of 2010 was announced that Facebook plans to make visible the page consulted by Internet users, which has raised controversy due to loss of privacy. "We went from a situation where we did not have sufficient control to another where Facebook becomes whole categories of public information in business logic" according to Kurt Opsahl, Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer dedicated to defending Internet users.

If you want to cancel an account, the process is very long, because Facebook keeps active "if you choose to reactivate your account" and so it keeps copies of that information indefinitely. And in case of death of you, your account is kept "active under a special memorial status for a period determined by us to allow other users to post and view comments".

Facebook and Depression Issue Faced by Teenagers

With teens using social media more than ever, there's no shortage of doom and gloom about what the internet is doing to children. The latest threat being bandied about is "Facebook Depression," in which the constant barrage of smiling, happy friend updates amplifies a teen's feelings of ...