Dangerous Facebook -Yuna Tsushima

http://www.blisstree.com/2013/03/22/mental-health-well-being/facebook-effects/

 According to research, posting and checking Facebook has something to do with self-confidence and losing self-control.  People who post many pictures and check-in many places they visited tend to have more confidence. It seems good, but this has also some negative effects. As they have more confidence, they are likely to lose their self-control and also be impatient. In the research operated by University of Pittsburgh and Columbia Business School, they found that those who esteem themselves with increased confidence had strong connection to Facebook and this effect was appeared only when they are sharing information with their friends thorough SNS. And also they found that people who are checking Facebook tend to choose unhealthier food than those who are browsing CNN news cite, and also give up to solve an anagram word puzzle earlier than people who were looking at TMZ. Furthermore, people who use social network too much are likely to have more weight, eat too much, lower credit score and more debt. This is one of negative effects of Facebook to people.

Almost all university students I have ever met have Facebook account. And I have, too. I hardly post something on Facebook, but I check Facebook once or twice a day, and share information with my friends. Not only young people but also over thirty people and even middle aged people are starting to use Facebook or other social network services such as Twitter.  Some people, especially high school and university students posted a photo which shows illegal or absurd and thoughtless acts of them and sometimes even lose their job, or studentship. These kinds of acts may be result of the over confidence with using SNS.

I think it is not bad to use SNS unless it is too much. But some people including me are addicted to connection to others and feel anxiety without the connection. It is really good effect to have self-confidence from sharing information on SNS, but it is a problem if we cannot have self-confidence without using SNS. We need to have appropriate distance from network and build healthy relationship with SNSs.