Disadvantages of using Facebook platform in Bangladesh. PDF

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We are the students of BBA from Dhaka University in the department of Management Information Systems; under kind supervisor of our teacher FARZANA PERVIN CHOWDHARY started to work on the negative effects of facebook . Facebook is a widely used social networking system throughout the world. Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Besides various positive sides, facebook has some negative effects which go beside our eyes. But sometimes they may be harmful or threatful for the users. Sometimes facebook can cause wastages

of our valuable time ,create psychological problem, violate the security issues and Social Ethical Problem. It is sometimes responsible for Sexual Harassment ,Decreasing Productivity, Wrong Information and Violence as well as Distance with Family and Friend We are grateful to our honorable teacher FARZANA PERVIN CHOWDHARY for giving us an opportunity to research about such an interesting topic. We all the group members of the group (ANTACID +) have researched the topic and collected information from different sources. All of us enjoyed doing the job with combined and coordinated.

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About Facebook

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Negative sides of Facebook

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Wastage of Time

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Psychological & Health Problems

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Security Problem and Virus

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Crimes

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Social Ethical Problem

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Sexual Harassment

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Decreasing Productivity

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Wrong Information and Violence 16

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Distance with Family and Friend

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Irrelevant Use

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About Facebook HISTORY OF FACEBOOK Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some American university administrations to help students get to know one another. Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum , Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to students of the University of Harvard, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League , and Stanford University . It gradually added support for students at various other universities before it opened to high school students, and eventually to anyone ages 13 and over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile , add other users as friends , exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, of which 8.7% are fake. According to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service. Facebook (as of 2012) has about 180 petabytes of data a year and grows by over half a petabyte every 24 hours. In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer added $1 million of his own money to the pot. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users. Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of- the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" Facebook eventually filed for an 3

initial public offering on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park , California. Facebook Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012. Based on its 2012 income of USD 5.1 Billion, Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time, being placed at position of 462 on the list published in May 2013.

How facebook impacts our lives The internet has become a huge part of our everyday lives. We use it for almost everything including research, pleasure, social networking, and so much more. It has become a way of life. I spend a lot of my own free time browsing the internet. The social networking site Facebook is among one of the most popular sites visited. According to Wikipedia, there are over one billion active users, myself included. Even as popular as it is, I think there are many negative effects it can have on our lives. One negative effect Facebook has on us is it diminishes our ability to communicate. I’m not suggesting you should not communicate through it, but I do not think your life should revolve around communication through this website. Facebook makes it extremely easy to find and keep in contact with friends and family. With that said, it keeps us away from interacting outside of the internet. We now send out email invites to parties and celebrations through here, chat instead of making the phone call, and send emails instead of writing a letter. A lack of face-to-face communication can really hurt the way we interact with people. We may not realize this at first, but it becomes apparent when we feel awkward trying to actually speak to someone. It increases antisocial tendencies because there is no longer direct communication with another person. Another point is how addicted we have become to this social networking site. We wake up and check it like it’s a newspaper and keep checking it throughout the day to see what gossip there is to pick up on. People have begun to post their every step, from waking up in the morning until the time they go to bed, including pictures of every meal they have; I have actually caught myself almost posting pictures of my home cooked meals. There is even an option to “check into” places you visit so everyone knows where you are. Facebook is available on your phone so you can log in while away from the computer, feeding your addiction even more. It can really take over your life in a short matter of time. I think the biggest, negative impact Facebook has on our lives is loss of privacy. For instance, if you do not set your profile to private, anybody has access to every piece of information you decide to share. Potential employers can easily search for you here and find all of your personal information, including some posts or pictures that may ruin your chances of getting a job. One negative post can affect the way people perceive you as a person. Even if you do set your profile to private, there are still ways people manage to see things you are doing on here. An example would be if a friend of 4

yours “likes” a photo or status you have, it will notify their friends of this, therefore the privacy setting is overthrown. You have to be careful as to what you actually want to share for anybody to see. Facebook is a wonderful place to keep in contact and share all your wonderful moments, but I also believe it is important to understand the negative impacts it can have on us. The traditional ways of communication are falling to the wayside, creating a culture of people who are almost afraid to interact with people. Your privacy and security are important, now more than ever, in this age of instant information. Most importantly, I think we need to remember to spend time with our family and friends outside of the internet and enjoy our time together. Facebook is something most of us check every day. We sink hours into the social networking site — obsessively clicking from profile to profile, looking at pictures, commenting on our "friends'" activities. Since 2004, this time-sink has become a predominant form of not only wasting time, but also social interaction. Facebook, however, may be doing more harm than good. While most claim they use of the site mainly for "social interaction," there may be more at play than just socializing. Many social psychologists argue that people would like to believe they can see themselves through the eyes of others, and Facebook allows them to do that, according to a Harvard study and survey of students. Through the site, people have the ability to put their best self forward, but what does this mean? Facebook gives us the ability to put forth only what we want people to know and see. We only put up the best pictures of ourselves, the most intellectual statuses and quotes, and our "about me" always sparkles not only with wit, but also just a few of our favorite things. While not every user does this — some leave their profiles sparse for a number of different reasons — it is quite difficult for those that do to live up to the way they portray themselves on Facebook, according to a Psychology Today review of Facebook and the people who use it. Once people put themselves online as if for review, they are able to use the responses they get to gauge how other people see them. This is problematic. People become used to thinking and doing everything in front of an audience. As their every thought is put up online for their "friends" to see, they get used to behaving in front of an crowd. After posting their lives for their friends to see and to judge, people have come to use Facebook to gauge not only their relationships, but also their level of importance. This leads to anxiety in people who seek approval from others and is found increasingly among the female users of the site. Women have stated that they feel crestfallen when the number of "happy birthdays" posted on their Facebook wall is not sufficient enough to make them feel important, according to a Forbes article about the site and its emotional side effects. Furthermore, the ability to see who wished them "happy birthday" and who did not leads to even further anxiety over strength of their relationships. Facebook gives us the ability to seek approval constantly from our peers, even though it may lead to an increase in anxiety. Though the site has its pros, the cons seem to outweigh them. Though it may 5

be a wonderful way to keep in touch with friends and an even better time-sink, the site's negative psychological effect should, at the very least, lead one to question the value of Facebook.

Dark side of facebook In a recent study by Routledge Journal’s Media Psychology, entitled “Feeling better but doing worse: Effects of Facebook self-presentation on implicit self esteem and cognitive task performance,” author Catalina Toma Ph.D. uses self-affirmation theory to make predictions about the effect of Facebook profile self-presentation on two psychological outcomes: users' self-esteem and performance on a cognitive task. “Previous research has demonstrated that browsing one's own Facebook profile is a self-affirming activity, in the sense that it replenishes feelings of self-worth and self-integrity,” explains Toma. “This is the case because Facebook profiles represent users as embedded in a network of meaningful relationships, and highlight the positive aspects of their lives.” So scrolling through one’s own Facebook profile is like looking in a mirror that reflects the positive parts of oneself. In this study, Toma researched how looking at your own Facebook representation affects how you feel about yourself, and how that affects your performance in a simple cognitive task. This is important because feelings more positive about oneself may lead to less motivation to perform well on some types of tasks. Toma found that after browsing their own Facebook profiles for 5 minutes, users did indeed report increased self-esteem. Then, users were asked to perform a cognitive task such as counting down from a large number by intervals of 7 as quickly and accurately as possible, for 2 minutes. In addition to elevated self-esteem, users attempted to answer fewer questions than those in a control group. “This suggests that Facebook profile exposure reduces users' motivation to perform well in a cognitive task, but not their ability to do so,” says Toma. “This pattern of results is consistent with self-affirmation theory, which claims that when people's self-worth is secured, they no longer need to engage in additional activities to increase self-worth. In this case, performing well in a cognitive task could have been such an activity.” Toma suggests that “More research is necessary to investigate whether Facebook profile browsing negatively affects more complex cognitive tasks, as well as tasks with real-world implications (e.g., grades).” But this particular study indicates that there are both positive and negative effects of Facebook profile self-presentation. On the positive side, it increases self esteem. But on the negative side, browsing one’s Facebook profile may in fact decrease one’s motivation to perform in a cognitive task

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Wastage of time

 Students use Facebook in time of study  People use Facebook all day long  No time management but irrelevantly used Time is precious, and anything that wastes too much of time is harmful in the long run. If you are a regular user of Facebook, you must be aware of the addiction that comes with it. Facebook, most of the times, seems like a necessity when the fact is that it is not. Teenagers feel restless if they do not keep checking the site on regular intervals, and adults feel the same obligation. As a result, a person opens his or her Facebook account multiple times a day, only to check the same posts again and again, and it leads to enormous wastage of time. Facebook eats up your time so quick that you don’t even notice how much time you have spent using it. Moreover, Facebook is one of the main reasons why children postpone, delay their school work, social and sport activities. When you are online you would be tempted so much to complete all your Facebook activities like checking messages, status updating, etc, that you would de-prioritize your important work and sometimes even forget or cancel it.The greatest motivating factor for children to use technology in grades 7 and up is to connect to others; to socialize. Their irresistible need to connect with their peers, coupled with the development of 24/7 accessible technologies, can make the use of sites like Facebook all 7

consuming. We have concerns for children and teens today growing up in a world where they are wired 24/7 without a break. For many of our kids there is little or no "down time." Some have difficulty disengaging from their social life. For some, it even raises their anxiety level to be without their cell phones for a few hours! We don't believe this is healthy for them.

Psychological problem

Facebook has serious negative psychological effects MENTAL  Addiction  Loneliness  Narcissism  Mental pressure & depression  Irritation  Self dissatisfaction

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 PHYSICAL  Obesity  Back pain  Eye problem  Headache Facebook is something most of us check every day. We sink hours into the social networking site — obsessively clicking from profile to profile, looking at pictures, commenting on our "friends'" activities. Since 2004, this time-sink has become a predominant form of not only wasting time, but also social interaction. Facebook, however, may be doing more harm than good. While most claim they use of the site mainly for "social interaction," there may be more at play than just socializing. Many social psychologists argue that people would like to believe they can see themselves through the eyes of others, and Facebook allows them to do that, according to a Harvard study and survey of students. Through the site, people have the ability to put their best self forward, but what does this mean? Facebook gives us the ability to put forth only what we want people to know and see. We only put up the best pictures of ourselves, the most intellectual statuses and quotes, and our "about me" always sparkles not only with wit, but also just a few of our favorite things. While not every user does this — some leave their profiles sparse for a number of different reasons — it is quite difficult for those that do to live up to the way they portray themselves on Facebook, according to a Psychology Today review of Facebook and the people who use it. Once people put themselves online as if for review, they are able to use the responses they get to gauge how other people see them. This is problematic. People become used to thinking and doing everything in front of an audience. As their every thought is put up online for their "friends" to see, they get used to behaving in front of an crowd. After posting their lives for their friends to see and to judge, people have come to use Facebook to gauge not only their relationships, but also their level of importance. This leads to anxiety in people who seek approval from others and is found increasingly among the female users of the site. Women have stated that they feel crestfallen when the number of "happy birthdays" posted on their Facebook wall is not sufficient enough to make them feel important, according to a Forbes article about the site and its emotional side effects. Furthermore, the ability to see who wished them "happy birthday" and who did not leads to even further anxiety over strength of theirrelationships. Facebook gives us the ability to seek approval constantly from our peers, even though it may lead to an increase in anxiety. Though the site has its pros, the cons seem to outweigh them. Though it may be a wonderful way to keep in touch with friends and an even better time-sink, the site's negative psychological effect should, at the very least, lead one to question the value of Facebook.

Stephanie AllenFeb 05, 2013s 'What's on your mind?' Well, isn't that the question. It seems that an extraordinary number of people actually feel like Facebook is personally talking to them when they read this question in the website's status bar. Cue statuses about feeling lonely, not being able to sleep, or feeling so happy you could burst. Then cue 9

the statuses about relationships and those mysterious statuses that are aimed at someone but all too often leave everyone wondering who. Is this what Facebook has come to? This was a social networking website originally designed to allow people to connect with friends from both past and present, communicate, share photos and basically stay in touch. It has somewhat transformed into a platform on which we can post photos of mundane things like what we're eating, tell people we haven't seen for years exactly how we're feeling, inform anyone about where we are and reveal who we do and don't like. Nothing is private anymore. What's more, the social networking phenomenon has led to the creation of a whole new language. Facebook accounts can be abused and fake statuses written by others; this is crudely known as a 'frape'. Friend's profiles (mainly their photos) can also be trawled through and cause hours of procrastinating as contacts engage in 'facebook stalking'. These are both harmless fun but studies by researchers at Edinburgh Napier University indicate that Facebook actually adds stress to users's lives. As 'facebook envy' becomes a growing phenomenon when faced with an overwhelming amount of attractive photos on your news feed, some users have found Facebook to leave a negative impact on their lives. Fear of offending contacts, being rejected from friend requests or being un-friended by others combined with the pressure to be entertaining and use appropriate etiquette for different friends leads many to experience strangely high levels of online stress. One starts to wonder - is Facebook becoming too much...