Facebook is a popular and widely used social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg along with his roommates and fellow computer students: Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Almost everyone knows this ‘useful’ site. But, is it really useful? Are there any side effects? Well, everything has its own positive and negative side, and Facebook is not an exception.
A friend of mine said that we could call Facebook: Fakebook, where we make fake friends. I don’t agree with his opinion due to various reasons. The main reason was that we started our friendship through Facebook. Although we were classmates, we didn’t talk to each other at all. Not until I made a Facebook account. So, in this case I can say that Facebook really is useful.
Besides that, I found some ‘long lost friends’ through it. We chatted, we had fun, and we talked about random things just to heal the feeling of loneliness at night. In the other hand, Facebook also brought destruction to our relationship. Well, the story is too complicated to tell.
Now, let’s talk about it according to the experts’ opinion and research.
As we knew, Facebook has been a fertile land for marketing. A lot of companies are ‘displaying’ their products through advertisements on Facebook. Many say that it is pretty effective since a lot of people from the whole world can see the advertisements easily.
In the contrary, psychologist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang from the University of Southern California said, "If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality." She means, by staring at your computer screen all day: facebooking, it makes our brain activity faster. While for making some decisions, especially moral decision, our brain needs adequate time and reflection.
So, what do you think? Is Facebook really useful? Well, you decide for yourself .
