Opening Statement: Are online social networks (Facebook, etc.) overall more harmful or more beneficial to society?
Author: Billy Lau // Category:I totally disagree with what I am about to say about Facebook, but the other side(Facebook is beneficial to society) has little to no reasons at all to defend.
Facebook is the number one social networking site in the world with over 500 million users. About 250 million users log on everyday. Facebook users spend about 700 billion minutes per month. Facebook is consider number two on top sites by traffic and was the most searched term in 2010. Facebook login and Facebook.com were placed 2nd and 5th. 70% of Americans in the U.S. are on Facebook and 70% of Facebook users are outside the US. On New Years Eve, over 750 million photos were uploaded. Facebook is still growing in size, and the average Facebook user is on at least a hour everyday.
Too many people are making a Facebook account or signing on everyday. The time spent on Facebook could be used for time to go out and hang with your friends, study for that midterm, or even to help out to do chores. Facebook is a big waste of time, PERIOD. It is a drug that makes you go stalk your friends or other people you don't know, and just like any other drug it is nearly impossible to quit.
Also Facebook can be used as a tool for stalking people. Stalkers aim at your birthplace, your vacation plans, home address, confessions, password clues, or risky behavior. Many people make the mistake of putting these things up and eventually they will get stalked. Stalkers also look through all your photos and they can duplicate them and maybe add a mustache to your picture. Then they will repost it, and all hell breaks loose. The only way to prevent Facebook Stalkers to not stalk you is by not making a Facebook account. Delete your old Facebook account or not make one at all.
Ultimately Facebook is a time consuming, very addicting drug that leads to people stalking you. The only reason people use Facebook is to cover up the fact that they have barely any friends, so they add everyone to show off that they do. Facebook is only a site, but it has more members than the U.S. In Conclusion, Facebook is harmful to the society, because it is a waste of time, people can steal your information, and people can get stalked.
Here are some things that people do on Facebook:
Sources:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6128/The-Ultimate-List-100-Facebook-Statistics-Infographics.aspx
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2011/01/soon-your-life-will-be-nothing-but-facebook.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_stalking
Facebook is the number one social networking site in the world with over 500 million users. About 250 million users log on everyday. Facebook users spend about 700 billion minutes per month. Facebook is consider number two on top sites by traffic and was the most searched term in 2010. Facebook login and Facebook.com were placed 2nd and 5th. 70% of Americans in the U.S. are on Facebook and 70% of Facebook users are outside the US. On New Years Eve, over 750 million photos were uploaded. Facebook is still growing in size, and the average Facebook user is on at least a hour everyday.
Too many people are making a Facebook account or signing on everyday. The time spent on Facebook could be used for time to go out and hang with your friends, study for that midterm, or even to help out to do chores. Facebook is a big waste of time, PERIOD. It is a drug that makes you go stalk your friends or other people you don't know, and just like any other drug it is nearly impossible to quit.
Also Facebook can be used as a tool for stalking people. Stalkers aim at your birthplace, your vacation plans, home address, confessions, password clues, or risky behavior. Many people make the mistake of putting these things up and eventually they will get stalked. Stalkers also look through all your photos and they can duplicate them and maybe add a mustache to your picture. Then they will repost it, and all hell breaks loose. The only way to prevent Facebook Stalkers to not stalk you is by not making a Facebook account. Delete your old Facebook account or not make one at all.
Ultimately Facebook is a time consuming, very addicting drug that leads to people stalking you. The only reason people use Facebook is to cover up the fact that they have barely any friends, so they add everyone to show off that they do. Facebook is only a site, but it has more members than the U.S. In Conclusion, Facebook is harmful to the society, because it is a waste of time, people can steal your information, and people can get stalked.
Here are some things that people do on Facebook:
- Stalk a friend
- Stalk your mom
- Send messages
- Update your status constantly (AKA prove to the world that you have no life)
- Play time consuming games, such as mafia wars or farmville
- Add people you hardly know
- Post pictures of yourself for your stalkers
- Poke people to death
- Join groups
- Say that you're ugly so that everyone cheers you up
- Post links that cannot be embedded
- Make random smileyes to irritate friends
- Join 'I hate Twilight' and 'Harry Potter is better than Twilight' and 'Edward Cullen is a fairy' fan pages
- Send 'sup' to every person online
- Announce that your sister is open for business now.
- Tell everyone that it's your birthday and hope they'll write on your wall.
- Change you're name to something stupid, or add " 'x " to the end to it.
Sources:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6128/The-Ultimate-List-100-Facebook-Statistics-Infographics.aspx
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2011/01/soon-your-life-will-be-nothing-but-facebook.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_stalking
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