SOCIAL NETWORK PHENOMENON

What happens when the social network is misused?


As known, nowadays the social network craze to public when it is viewed as one of the things that helpful because many activities can be done from that. But, did you know that addiction access the most influential social networks, facebook could actually encourage a person to be complacent and will eventually cause a bad impact when it is misused. Some examples of situations that show the effects of abuse facebook is when a person becomes lazy or neglect their daily routine, especially to those students and employees.

According to the article quoted in the newspaper Kosmo on February 16, 2010, this is also certified by a Senior Lecturer Communication, Department of Communication University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Ishak Abd Hamid said, facebook itself has elements that is wasting time where he considers a person would normally enjoy when other people had to respond to other profile, and this has caused them does not care to spend more time facing the computer and eventually their examination results or work carried out affected. In fact it has also supported a study by experts in the United States proves that the students there who regularly access the facebook will get results that are not satisfactory because the browser page that will require a lot of time. This has led to the students who revised their studies in less than an hour a week because too busy surfing facebook. (Mazlina Abdul Majid, 2010)

What we see here is facebook indeed bring more disadvantages than the benefits if its use has been misused. Firstly, what we see is the misused of this social life will be able to cause a browser that is disturbed in the future. This happens when they may be confronted with various problems to apply for jobs. This is because, the employer will usually find negative information about an individual that affects up to employers to reject their job applications. This is because, there are few individuals who disclose their personal also all the profile information and consider this facebook as simply to socialize and find more friends without thinking of bad impact that may occur with the attitude that they are finally invited effect on themselves.

In addition, with publicize their photos or videos to the public, this will further enhance the world of cyber crime cases when there are few parties that do elements on the treacherous certain individuals may be motivated jealousy or revenge. As a result, a person may file in indecent conditions will spread to the general public as happened to one of the famous singers, where the pictures are in private collection has been downloaded by the other parties and this had led to privacy rights have been invasion. However, when such situations occur, on whom we must blame?

There are also certain parties who abuse the freedom to write in facebook when they write a word of diffuse defamation, threats, intimidation and criticize in facebook while they have the freedom to write is not absolute because there are still limits to obey it. This has led to the writing of such fact has caused the image or good name of an individual is contaminated. For example, in this situation has led many persons who took the opportunity to express dissatisfaction or condemn their own colleagues in the social pages of this openly without thinking about what might be felt by a friend who is a victim. That is may be a bad effect on the psychology of individuals.

In conclusion, social networking will indeed benefit the user as long as they do not abuse it. It is because, misused it usually will give bad effects to the life of the individual. Therefore, safety guidelines are needed to be established to educate person in use of social networking more effectively.


Here, I want to make a conclusion about the effects when misused, especially social network of individuals themselves. I will be divided into 3 parts that is from the point of health, personal life and corner of the end point of personal safety.

1.Health

• Weak eyesight
- When people staring at a computer screen for a long time.
- Use it too much when they accessed through the internet.
- Sooner, they eyesight can get worse and give the bad impact.

• Health disorders
- When people who get addicted to facebook spend more time at home
- Less time to do outside activities
- They do not have a proper time to sleep and eat
- Sooner, they will get health disorders because they do not get rest enough.

• Can cause death
- Experiencing syndrome know as clinical disorders.
- Psychiatrists from the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland have found in their research that is after 10 people were found deed due to blood clots in the brain.
- It might be happen when someone do not do any movement until their brain cramps because they sit facing the computer in the long time.


2. Personal life

• Wasting time
- It happens when people enjoy when other people had to respond to other profile.
- They do not care to spend more time even their work carried out affected.
- Students will revised their studies in less than an hour a week
- Person become lazy or neglects their daily routine, especially to those students and employees.

• Facebook addiction
- Become a problem in one’s personal or professional life if the time spent on facebook begins to take hold of one’s life.
- Inordinate amounts of time spent on the website and self-imposed time limits are not set.

• Become anti-social
- A person might be talking to the others everyday on facebook, but they may reduce the time that they spend face to face.
- Sooner, they become anti-social and develop social anxiety disorders and maybe can also put someone into depression.

3. Personal safety

.Risk to professional life
- It happens when they may be confronted with various problems to apply for jobs.
- Employer will usually find negative information about and individuals that effect up to employers to reject their job applications.
- This is because; there are few individuals who disclose their all personal profile information without thinking of bad impact that may occur.

• Cyber crime cases
- When there are few parties that do elements on the treacherous certain individuals may be motivated jealousy or revenge to other people.
- A person file in indecent conditions will spread to the general public, where the pictures are in private collection has been downloaded by the other parties.
- Even the photos can be viewed by all their friends, at the same time strangers can see them once they get on their friend’s list.