A reporter, Jenna Wortham has reported in her article in New York Times regarding a huge number of people quitting facebook have increase from year to year. Also, Wortham gives a lot of reason why this situation occur.
Facebook is a social networking service owned by Facebook. Inc, targeted to connect people with their friends, family and business associates. Yet, one of Facebook’s main selling points is to builds closer ties among friends and colleagues. While people are enjoying and connecting through Facebook, some of the people might not realize that Facebook may brings opposite effects towards its users.
Facebook may bring negative effect towards its users because there might be a gap between a people and the other person connected in it. Like other social networks, relationship between people in virtual life may be perfect, cordial and beautiful. But will the relationship in real life be perfect and cordial like in virtual life? Some of the people maybe can retain the relation in both virtual and real life but most of us couldn’t achieve it. Besides, Facebook connecting people only by updates and pictures by the users to the other users. What if a person who have close friends and not seeing her friends for a long time? Seeing your long lost friend in person and expressing your feeling in words are two different circumstances.
Other than that, one’s privacy after having a Facebook account may change. Facebook can be a suitable site to stalk or hack other users. A January 2009 Complete.com study stated that Entertainment Weekly, an American magazine included the site on Facebook’s purpose for some people are to stalk their exes, wishes their friends or colleagues’ birthdays and publicize their problems or activities to the other users. Thus, the users tend to have a common trust in others and in institutions as some of their friend in Facebook could be fakes and fraud.
In conclusion, social network like Facebook may have many negative effects towards the users but for people who manage to use Facebook wisely, they will not having problem to connecting in it.