Facebook’s positive effect on one’s life

“There are 3.5 billion active social media users worldwide in 2019” (Vojinovic, 2019). The usage of social media is increasing every day and more people are getting attracted to the different social media platform. Social media has been so common in the past decade, and hopefully people are benefiting more from it each and every day. “Facebook is the largest social media network on the Internet, both in terms of total number of users and  name recognition” (Akram & Kumar, 2017). Facebook is becoming the largest mean in social media.  It has always been debatable that Facebook’s impact on the people can be harmful and might affect people’s lives negatively; on the other hand, some believe that Facebook is the most important method to reach the public. Nowadays, it can clearly be seen that Facebook is beneficial in terms of being fast, accessible, and free for venting your problems.

Facebook is the fastest method that spreads the news and events among the people. The news reaches the people within a blink of an eye, as for the American adults, 68% supported that the news and events pop-up in front of them every now and then (Shearer & Matsa, 2018), as they also added that by reading more news and updates because of the social media, it made them more familiar with what is going on around them. Facebook can be considered as the quickest tool to reach the public. Any agency would love to publish first on the social media platforms, as if one needed to change something written, they can do it instantly; this shows how social media can be easily and rapidly edited without taking much time and effort to be done. People also can reach others fast and interact with them from their place even if they are miles apart from each other.

Moreover, an important benefit of the Facebook’s impact on the people that anything on social media can be easily accessed. In other words, Facebook posts can be reachable by the people at any times and all around the world. News and events that happen around the people can be accessible and people will see news and advertisements whether they want to or not. People can easily access each others profiles and search for something that has been shared years ago as long as it is public. However, according to Nawafleh, Harfoush, Fakhouri, Obiedat, & Rababah (2012) Facebook users can choose their level of privacy to prevent strangers from accessing personal information. This shows that Facebook is even more positive as it lets people search for an event that took place in the past years and it can still be accessible to reach it and see pictures about it, but not something private for someone.

There has been an opposing claim that Facebook make users don’t feel free on Facebook and that others can judge them based on what they write. People even claimed that users’ minds can be changed based on what they see and that they might compare their lives with others, so they will not feel good as much as stress. However, one of the most important positive effects of Facebook on users is that it allows them to express themselves freely. People lately find Facebook as a place to vent their feelings and express their own opinions. Also, it makes expressing their feelings so simple as people share their status updates together without any embarrassments like in the face to face connection. Individuals who choose not to use Facebook are likely to have personalities that differ from those of the Facebook users (Nadkarni & Hofmann, 2011) Therefore, Facebook is a revelation as it offers a platform for anyone to share their opinion and express themselves easily and freely by simply posting on their personal profile at which makes their personality becomes better.In conclusion, to sum up what has been mentioned, one needs to mention that Facebook is the best place to change one’s life to better as it reaches people fast, tends to be more accessible, and lets the people vent their problems easily. People would have better lives if they manage to make time on Facebook and to read more of what is being shared there, so they will know the news and events happening around them, they can easily access the past events, and they could speak themselves out freely.

Mayar Emad

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