This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook. Some key advantages include enabling networking and making new friends, sharing photos and ideas easily, and providing emotional support through online networks. However, some disadvantages are that it can increase loneliness, lead to excessive multitasking associated with depression and anxiety, and result in oversharing of private information. The document concludes that social networking is an unavoidable fact, but that people need to learn to control how they use it rather than be controlled by it.

1. Is Facebook
messing our life?
Prepared by: O . Kucukoglu

2. Social Networking is growing power

3. Social Networking is growing power

4. Social Networking is growing power

5. Social Networking is growing power

6. Facts of Facebook

7. Advantages of using Facebook
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Networking:
Connect with old friends
 Make new friends
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83% of shy and lonely survey respondents
reported that platforms (i.e. Facebook) helped
them make new friends
25% of them said that these channels had
boosted their confidence
Sharing photos, ideas, datas (such as life,
science, politics etc.) in fast and free way

8. Advantages of using Facebook
Follow not only friends, but also organizations, political,
scientific or daily magazines
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Governments
Universities
International and local
organizations
Companies
Different groups (cultural,
politicals, scientific etc.)

9. Advantages of using Facebook
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When connection of people was in strong ties,
spread of behavior in an online social networking is faster and farther (1)
Online messages might influence a variety of offline
behaviours, not only users, but also user‘s friends,
friends‘s of friends (2)
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(1)
(2)
(3)
2010 US congressional elections: Messages directly influenced
political self-expression, information seeking and real world voting
behaviours
Arab Spring was catalysed by networking sites
Centola D., Science, 2010
Bond RM, et al. Nature, 2012
Corbyn Z., Nature, 2012
(3)

10. Advantages of using Facebook
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Socially isolated people have
(1)
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↑ risk of disease
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↑ risk of developing psychiatric disorders
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More accident
Shorther lives
When interacting in person (2), socail networking boosts
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self-esteem,
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stimulating disclosure,
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self-presentation
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self-confidence
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Life-style advice to patients (i.e. Cancer) in social network:
BENEFICIAL! (3)
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Emotional supports for diseases
(such as asthma sufferers) (4)
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House et al., Science, 1988
Disalvo D, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND, 2010
Williams K et. al. British J of Cancer, 2013
Dolgin E, Nature Medicine, 2010

11. Disadvantages of Facebook
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Makes us more lonely in the real world??
Makes people multitasking
associated with symptoms of depression and social
anxiety (1)
 understand less than those who are able to
concentrate.
 less creative and less productive than those who
do one thing at a time.
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Excessive dependence on social-networking sites
corresponds to
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attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
social anxiety and depression
45% of people who are not able to access their social
networks or email feel worried or uncomfortable as a result
(2)
(1)
(2)
Becker M et al. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2012
http://www.anxietyuk.org.uk, 2012

12. Disadvantages of Facebook
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Uncontroled sharing results
unexpected or unpleasent situations
for users
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Internet stalking!!
People we don’t know
 Employers to check backgrounds
 Judicial Officers at a sanctioning tool
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13. Facebook is powerful tool
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Social networking is the fact of this century and unavoidable
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We need to deal and use in the best efficient way, not ignoring it.
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Just re-establish control over it,
rather than being controlled by it!
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Scientist must explore of outcomes online interactions about science
(1)
Brossard D and Scheufele DA, Science, 2013
(1)

14. Thank you for your attention 
“All substances are poisons, there is none which is not
a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from
a remedy.” (Paracelsus)