Why is Facebook a problem?

Why is Facebook a problem?

Of course most people agree that Facebook has been a problem, such as a negative influence on children that has created many problems. Did you know that Facebook has more than 750 million active users, that is more than twice the U.S population.

One of the many disadvantages, are how people are being cyber bullied online. Did you know that 70% of the youngsters have experienced cyberbullying and one in five have said that it has been extreme.  Facebook just doesn’t affect people mentally but also physically. Children, preteens and teens are going through: stomach aches, nervous conditions, anxiety, depression and sleep deprivation, and it is all because of the over use Facebook.

Kids who are obsessed with Facebook can’t focus in their educational tasks and the rate of absences is high. School can be really stressful, but when you add to it hurtful comments over the internet when you have no idea who is saying mean things behind your back, sometimes it can be too overwhelming.

There are chances for the kids that they will lose whatever social communicating they have when they have overused Facebook. To build up the social communicating you allowed is hard to regain \When people are asked what are the subjects to rank the importance of why they use Facebook. The top three reasons were: to maintain contact (88 percent), maintain their network (83 percent) and read status updates (77 percent).

Remember that when you go on to Facebook you should always make sure that you’re going on the right sites and making the right choices. There are a lot of posts but each and everyone of them can be a virus, a scam or posted by someone who is not who they really are.

This is my explanation on why Facebook is a problem.