Facebook Blog

Nick McKinney

3/3/14

Facebook has taken up a very big piece of people’s lives and changed how they do their day to day lives. One specific thing that Facebook affects is peoples relationships with family, friends, and significant others. One negative affect is that people can get jealous very easily by seeing, posts and comment to or from their loved ones to other people including the opposite sex. This causes unnecessary strain in their relationships. Couples also get jealous when their partner posts pictures of themselves because why would you need to post pictures of yourself when you have a partner. No partner wants to get on Facebook and see you posting pictures of yourself looking for likes from other males or females. Another negative of Facebook is when families and or couples post their fights on Facebook for other people to see and comment on. Fights should be left to face to face confrontation, texting or phone call, away from public eye. One of the biggest problem starters on Facebook when baby mommas write statuses about how much their baby daddies are such dead beats and how they hate them. Then those baby daddy’s moms jump on the status and start defending them and being rude to the mother. Facebook has also created cat fishes, those are people who create fake Facebook’s and talk to people and pretend to be someone that they aren’t. These create a lot of problems for some people because they fall in love with them and either end up sending them money, or getting to close and being heartbroken for the rest of their lives when they find out that the person isn’t real. Or they get lucky meet the person and find out that they are fake but they just don’t look how they portrayed but are the same person they talked like. But then again even writing about all the things that make me hate Facebook are making me think harder and so I realized how much Facebook actually annoys me and why I don’t use it anymore. If people took a break from Facebook and delete it they would actually realize that face to face conversations make things so much easier than just a bunch of he said she said and other people’s opinions being shot at you. So take a step away and realize that people still have mouths to speak with, so use them. Facebook has caused a lot of problems but I’m not saying it hasn’t caused good things either. Facebook is able to keep families connected when they move far away and so you can have constant contact and post pictures to keep them updated on the growing grandkids or growing relationships. Grandparents can keep in contact with their grandkids by sending messages or writing on their wall and just simply annoying them! Facebook has now linked with many different companies and offering coupons to customers by encouraging them to like their page in exchange for a buy one get one free coupon. They can also provide customers with updates of sales and weekly ads so they get them the news first before competitors. Also even though I said keep your relationship off of Facebook the relationship shows people that you are with someone and they are committed to you. There was always that question when I was in high school, “Do you wanna make it Facebook official?” That was a big thing that when everyone used Facebook and that’s who boys and girls showed their relationship. But Facebook has dwindled down in use and now people of older ages are abusing the power of Facebook for pointless drama that they don’t need. Let’s minimize on the usage of Facebook and get back to the face to face conversations.