Name: Joseph Angelo D.

Sonza

Gr/Sec: 11- Peter Drucker

The Effects of Using Facebook.

The Internet has turned our existence upside down. It has revolutionized communications, to
the extent that it is now our preferred medium of everyday communication. In almost
everything we do, we use the Internet. Ordering a pizza, buying a television, sharing a
moment with a friend, sending a picture over instant messaging. Before the Internet, if you
wanted to keep up with the news, you had to walk down to the newsstand when it opened in
the morning and buy a local edition reporting what had happened the previous day. But today
a click or two is enough to read your local paper and any news source from anywhere in the
world, updated up to the minutes. Statistics Portal reports that 1.44 billion enough active
Facebook users monthly as of the first quarter of 2015. Active users are defined as those who
have logged onto Facebook during the last 30 days. Facebook can be used to connect with
people.

Using Facebook, we can inform people of significant news in our lives, vice versa. It is also a
very effective way to advertise business pursuits or look for a job opportunity and many
more. Facebook can also cause danger to users. For example, adding strangers and fake
accounts on Facebook may cause a threat to the individual and his or her family’s security.
According to Kimberly Young, the three negative effects of using the Internet are cyberaffair,
student internet abuse, and employee internet abuse. Social media, especially Facebook, play
a great role in such issues. Yes, because social nowadays is the new platform for sharing
information and other important kinds of stuff. Social media is not always an online
distraction or procrastination platform. While some may be addicted to their social media
networks, it is one of the best ways to stay informed. Major news outlets, corporations, and
persons of interest use social media to deliver messages to the masses. With items posted
immediately, the public stays informed. Some issues cause controversy, but social media
does better than harm in retrospect. The cure for that is to change your attitude, boost your
self-esteem, and start focusing on more meaningful things in your life rather than empty
comparisons to other people. Stop following Instagram or other social media accounts of
people showing off their amazing lives, because that’s not real or authentic.

No one has a perfect life, so accept yourself the way you are and stop comparing yourself
with others altogether, whether on social media or real life. Is social media beneficial for
students? Definitely! There’s no doubt that social media is good for students in terms of
learning and education. But adults can also learn how to use social media as a learning tool.
Social networks like LinkedIn and online learning apps are all creating learning hubs where
students and employees can up-skill, re-skill, and prepare themselves for a new world of
remote work.