Is the Facebook addiction making us less outgoing or anti-social?

Abstract

Facebook is one of the most convenient and addicted social media. It provides a fantastic channel for communication. Facebook helps in connecting people worldwide almost instantly which allows people to share their delight and passions with each other. Social media like facebook are playing an important role in professional and personal lives of every individual. Facebook is being used for the purpose of business by reaching customers through advertisements or through any other way. There are many small businesses which are running successively only via facebook. Any social media like facebook are responsible to make us anti-social. The social media are encouraging all the people to stay home, and chat with friends online instead of meeting them face to face. Facebook and all other social media have changed the way of doing business, conducting relationships, sharing information, watching TV and listening to music. Like other technologies, social media can't be considered as bad or good. The way of using the social media makes it good or bad. Similarly, it can't be said that social media is making everyone anti-social or less socially linked.

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Introduction1

Addiction of facebook2

Advantages of facebook2

Disadvantages of facebook3

Research on the facebook4

Research on facebook usage4

Research on facebook abuses5

Research on facebook marketing6

Facebook addiction is making people more social or anti social?6

Conclusion8

Works Cited10

Is the Facebook addiction making us less outgoing or anti-social?

Introduction

Because of the use of facebook and all other social media, we have become more heavily networked than ever before. According to research, it is revealed that people have become much lonelier than before, and this loneliness is compelling people to become physically or mentally ill (Schwarze n.pag.). The question arises that whether Facebook and other social media are making people anti social, or it is improving the way of interaction and communication between people? Since millions of people seem to be glued or attached permanently with the facebook, electronic devices or internet; it is creating a fear that technology is taking control over human beings. Although facebook provides an easy way to interact with people; but it has limited the relationships to virtual relations (Sherman 2-3). Facebook wastes a lot of precious time of many busy students and businessmen. When anyone wishes to spend only five minutes to go through the notifications; these five minutes easily extends to a couple of hours in reading other's status and looking at other's photos on the display screen (Sherman 2-3).

People are discovering easy and new ways of connecting with their family members, friends, classmates, coworkers and with those they met once in their life, or they just met through social websites. There are around 800 million active users of facebook. Amongst all the social websites, facebook is the commonly used social networking site. There are almost half of the facebook users who log on to facebook on a daily basis (Sherman 2-3). In the last few years, usage of facebook has been extended from the individual use to business use for the promotion of services ...