for the comenius project 'Be globally aware" 1st Gymnasio Neou Psychikou.

1. Health and
Facebook ®
Many people use
this social network
every month, every
week, every day,
however, most of
them ignore that it
can cause health
problems

2. This impact of
facebook is not only
ignored by many
people but also
rejected by its fans.
They cannot imagine
that a social
networking site can
have such an impact
in our health

3. What problems does facebook
cause and why
The media have always
been interested on
presenting the dangers
of facebook. For instance
the ‘Daily mail’ reports
that using Facebook can
raise your risk of cancer
and many other serious
health problems

4. All these media reports are based on a
psychologist Dr Aric Sigman who
argues that this lack of face to face
contact can increase the risks of heart
disease, stroke and dementia

5. The social isolation
Some psychologist argue that the social networking
sites ,such as facebook, even though they are made to
make people more sociable, they isolate people
The social isolation
affects very much
our health because
it affects our
genes, our immune
system, our
hormones and the
arteries’ function

6. The addiction to Facebook
With facebook you don’t have to make effort so to
make friends or become facebook. Everything is
judged from your facebook activity.
So, many people are addicted to facebook. They only live
in this virtual world and not in the real one. That shows
that facebook is not just a social networking site but
also a real drug

7. Facebook addicted people Another thing that facebook
can spend a whole day just addicted people do is to
checking their homepage stay at home and don’t go
updates. Also many time outside with their friends
they stay logged on for the for a walk or to go to the
whole night or wake in the
cinema etc.
middle of their sleep so to
check their facebook
profile.

8. There are many consequences from
that addiction.
• First of all we lose
our real friends and
we become less
sociable in real life.
• We stop sleeping
at night and that
also affects our
health

9. • We spent the most of the day on
facebook so we don’t have time for our
obligations, such as studying if we are
students or working
• We don’t have time for exercise, we may
consume much food or we may start smoking
and drinking alcohol

10. Some times facebook This may cause many
addicted people psychological
don’t manage to problems like
achieve their depression, lower
facebook goals our self-estime and
such as being
a sense of social
inadequacy
famous, having
many friends etc.

11. In addition to that if we are Another last
addicted to facebook that danger by
means that we are using
addicted to internet and facebook is
computer and that is that we may
known to cause many communicate
health problems such as with unknown
problems with our eyes people who
want to harm
us

12. Sources:
Iosif Tsekos