Disadvantages of fb final

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Executive Summary
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 positivesides, facebook has some negative effects
which go beside our eyes. But sometimes they may be harmfulor 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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Table of contents Page No:
 About Facebook 03-04
 Negative sides of Facebook 04-06
 Wastage of Time 09-11
 Psychological & Health Problems 12
 Security Problem and Virus 13
 Crimes 13
 Social Ethical Problem 13
 Sexual Harassment 14
 Decreasing Productivity 15
 Wrong Information and Violence 16
 Distance with Family and Friend 16
 Irrelevant Use 17

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About Facebook
HISTORY OF FACEBOOK
Facebook is an online social networking service. Its namestems fromthe colloquial
name for the book given to students at the startof 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, butlater
expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University .
Itgradually added supportfor students at various other universities before it
opened to high school students, and eventually to anyoneages 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 mustregister 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-interestuser groups, organized by workplace, schoolor
college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as
"People From Work" or "CloseFriends". As of September 2012, Facebook has over
one billion active users, of which 8.7% arefake. According to a May 2011 Consumer
Reports survey, thereare 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, Accelpartners 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 mostused
social networking serviceby worldwidemonthly 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 beforeFacebook?" Facebook eventually filed for an

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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 yours “likes” a photo or status you have, it will notify their friends of this, therefore

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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

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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

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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

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 Mental pressure & depression
 Irritation
 Self dissatisfaction
 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

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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.
StephanieAllenFeb 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
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?
As a student, I'm aware of the dangers and exposure Facebook has. One has to be extremely
conscious of what is put on online profiles either on Twitter or Facebook. Warnings from career
departments include horror stories where students were rejected from jobs based on the content of
their Facebook profile and the image of themselves
they portrayed. Facebook is becoming a dominating part of our lives and culture, but
surely all of this calls for just a bit of common sense. If the site is used as intended, as a site you
visit for an hour or so every now and again, rather than obsessively refreshing the page to find out
the latest gossip from your friends surely the negative impacts will lessen. Restraint needs to be
shown to avoid Facebook becoming a platform to tell anyone everything, and everyone anything.
Security problem and viruses
 ID & personal data are not safe
 An excellent place for hackers
 Virus spreads through pages & contents

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 Clicking on links may cause virus attack
 Loss of privacy
Other users can upload and associate information to one's Facebook account. The most prominent
feature of this type is the My Photos" feature, which allows users to upload photos and tag them
with the names of the people in the pictures. This functionality has already resulted in trouble for an
underage student at University of Missouri-Columbia when college administrators found a picture
of her duct-taped to a chair while another student poured beer in her mouth. This was a matter of
considerable embarassment as she had just been elected student body vice president. The university
is currently considering removing her from that role.
Current Facebook Precaution
Facebook allows users to de-associate themselves from unwanted data, but in the case of pho-
tographs, the data remains on the server. This is also an opt-in" function that requires constant
monitoring of the system. third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform
to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by
MySpace.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the
MySpace.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of
members of the public and users of the service.
Crime
 Scam & Spam
 Cyber bullying
 Argument conducted on the site led to
real world violence
 Criminal organizations also have FB
account Facebook was referenced in
investigations of murder, rape, child
sexual abuse witness intimidation and
fraud

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Teens and students are mostly unaware of importance of making a complex password. They
tend to keep a simple and easily rememberable passwords which get guessed by others
easily. Thus their personal information is accessed and so their privacy is lost
Destroying social ethics
 Social scandals occur through FB
 Kids are loosing social value
 Some activities go against social value
 Social respect decreasing
 Religious consciousnessdestroying
Sexual harassments
 Facebook is a common place for
sexual grooming
 Harassment by posting & tagging
 Dirty comments
“Just five more minutes on Facebook and I’ll start my studies” are the leading words on the lips of
almost every teenager today. Facebook is known to be the most popular social networking website
which contains approximately 1.2 billion users most of which are teenagers. Although Facebook
may have benefits for example it is useful for communicating to enhance learning and collaborating
with others, there are many negative effects especially on teenagers, mainly girls. These
consequences include poor academic performances, physiological disorders such as narcissistic
tendencies and antisocial behaviours and cyber bullying. Although cyber bullying is not a main

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concern in my investigation, I decided to mention it here today due to a past incident that occurred
in my school. Recently, some students posted insulting comments about a child who in turn
informed the principal. In addition to dealing with this matter personally, the principal sent letters to
every child’s parent informing them that their child should not be on Facebook and relevant reasons
why. In addition to that, the main reason I chose to investigate the topic “The negative effects of
Facebook on teenagers,” was that during my CXC year, I suffered the negative impact of a poor
academic performance. Therefore, my goal is to educate the students of my school on the major
consequences, however, focusing mainly on their grades in an attempt to remind them of their
obligation to being a good student. As such, my speech will entail the interesting findings obtained,
an evaluation on my sources of information, and the appropriateness of the context, medium and
channel chosen as well as the challenges faced on conducting out this investigation.
Wrong information and violence
 Different blogs & groups spreading
wrong information
 Pages containing controversial &
inflammatory topics are creating
social restlessness
 Pages promoting sociopolitical crisis
The developers of Facebook had only good intentions. However, it has been years since its
inception, and Facebook is no longer the same platform. There is just too much bragging and rumor
spreading all over Facebook. Although teenagers are the ones mostly facing this kind of issues,
adults are not totally immune either.
Cultural interferences
Distance with family and friends
 Users live in a virtual world

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Using more time on Facebook decrease time with
FnF
The developers of Facebook had only good intentions. However, it has been years since its
inception, and Facebook is no longer the same platform. There is just too much bragging and rumor
spreading all over Facebook. Although teenagers are the ones mostly facing this kind of issues,
adults are not totally immune either.
Decreasing productivity

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 Using Facebook during work hour
 Spending more time on FB than problem
solving
 Excessive use & late on duty
 Innovation power decreases
Even if the system overflows with so much advantages that one can be joyful of, there are still
numbers of flaws that one can pinpoint. Internet industry is greatly affected by sites popping out to
render a technical community. This is where the rivalry starts. The crowding is also becoming an
issue. The program is considered as a negative diversion especially to the schooling industry,
affecting students to divert their attention.
Irrelevant Use
 Sometimes it is used irrelevantly
 Like, Comment & Tag without concern
Even if the system overflows with so much advantages that one can be joyful of, there are still
numbers of flaws that one can pinpoint. Internet industry is greatly affected by sites popping out to
render a technical community. This is where the rivalry starts. The crowding is also becoming an
issue. The program is considered as a negative diversion especially to the schooling industry,
affecting students to divert their attention.
Conclusion
No doubt, Facebook (due to its incredible expansion), has some positive side as it can be the
exhaust valve and even comfort for many people. Can be used to vent, relieve the pain, share
experiences or share ideas and impressions. So we can conclude that expose personal life in a social
network can be a therapy for some people.
However, there are some risks in the social networks that are neglected or that go unnoticed by
users. Just to name a few, Facebook has been involved in at least one third of divorces in the UK. In
the United States is no different, where Facebook has been increasingly used as evidence by the end
of many marriages. It happens that the rapprochement between people is facilitated by Facebook,
and because of that, are very common new love interests or old cases, which also vastly increased

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the number of adulteries. There are studies that show the harmful influence of Facebook among
teenagers, as they are more vulnerable to developing antisocial
behavior, narcissism, disrespect the privacy and even more specific psychotic. Other damaging
effects of constant use of Facebook among young people also include mania, hostile behavior,
insomnia, anxiety and depression.
We have used some links to collect information .
these are:
http://www.guardian.co.uk...
 http://davidrainoshek.com
 http://smallbusiness.chron.com
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com
 http://www.e-radio.gr/repository/2008/facebook
 www.publisher-poetry-australia.com

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