Facebook's Impact on Social Structure
FACEBOOK HAS BROUGHT MORE HARM THAN HELP TO YOUNG PEOPLE’S RELATIONSHIPS
The objective of this essay is to argue for this statement that says ‘face book has brought more harm than help to young people’s relationships’. Facebook is one of the fastest growing social network sites (Needham & Company, 2007). This social network site allows users to create understandable profiles describing themselves and then to also create clear links with other users, who are referred to as “friends” by the system. A distinctive feature of the Facebook is that profile information can be verified other than in other social networks (Lampe, Ellison, & Steinfield, 2006). Relationship refers to the inter reliance between two or more individuals (Ledingham & Bruning, 2000, pg 74). The essay will cover the advantages of face book, the disadvantages and the theories related to this social networking, which include social learning theory and the uses and gratifications theory. The essay will also show how the disadvantages overlap the advantages.
Facebook has brought so much change within the social structures. These changes vary, some are advantageous while some are disadvantageous. The advantageous changes include
Young people meet multicultural individuals on face book, from different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds (Bhugra & Becker, 2005). They meet different people through face book for many reasons, including broadly political, socioeconomic and educational. The richness of this diversity of cultures, ethnicity, races can make one to end up loosing the individual self or identity, some individuals may be attracted to the cultures exposed to them on face book, then end up identifying themselves to those cultures hence loosing their own identity (Bhugra & Becker, 2005). These individuals will opt to practice and believe in most of what they are exposed to in facebook. Facebook has also affected youth’s relationships negatively in such a way that there is poor
The objective of this essay is to argue for this statement that says ‘face book has brought more harm than help to young people’s relationships’. Facebook is one of the fastest growing social network sites (Needham & Company, 2007). This social network site allows users to create understandable profiles describing themselves and then to also create clear links with other users, who are referred to as “friends” by the system. A distinctive feature of the Facebook is that profile information can be verified other than in other social networks (Lampe, Ellison, & Steinfield, 2006). Relationship refers to the inter reliance between two or more individuals (Ledingham & Bruning, 2000, pg 74). The essay will cover the advantages of face book, the disadvantages and the theories related to this social networking, which include social learning theory and the uses and gratifications theory. The essay will also show how the disadvantages overlap the advantages.
Facebook has brought so much change within the social structures. These changes vary, some are advantageous while some are disadvantageous. The advantageous changes include
Young people meet multicultural individuals on face book, from different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds (Bhugra & Becker, 2005). They meet different people through face book for many reasons, including broadly political, socioeconomic and educational. The richness of this diversity of cultures, ethnicity, races can make one to end up loosing the individual self or identity, some individuals may be attracted to the cultures exposed to them on face book, then end up identifying themselves to those cultures hence loosing their own identity (Bhugra & Becker, 2005). These individuals will opt to practice and believe in most of what they are exposed to in facebook. Facebook has also affected youth’s relationships negatively in such a way that there is poor