The internet has become a part of life to everyone; people use it for almost everything including research, pleasure, social networking, and so much more. The social networking site Facebook is among one of the most popular sites visited and people usually use it to keep in touch with their friends or to make new ones and this site allows them to socialize in an easy way. Despite it has these positive aspects; the overuse of Facebook is causing three negative effects on people’s life such as, they are glued in Facebook all day, they expose too much of their personal life and they try to fit in this social networking losing their identity.
The first effect is that users are constantly glued in here forgetting daily assignations. According to Rouis, S. Limayen, M. & Salehi-Sangari, E. (2011) “Users experience delight and enjoyment when interacting with others on this networks and appear to be in total command of this activity, they may lose control over other tasks that they are expected to perform. Time flies while they are absorbed in the joy and curiosity produced by this website, and no time or efforts are left to conduct other task”. The author shows that people are caught by Facebook without be aware of that, and in some cases people are used to waste time on this site instead of doing their school duties. For instance, chatting is usually too addictive that cause them to spend hours and hours talking through this, minimizing and loosing the study time, and also the homeworks that they have to do are made with low quality due this constantly lack of time. Moreover, many people feel laziness to help in their housework. This is because for them it is better to be online and do not lose any detail of what is going on Facebook than make some errands, like go to the supermarket, also cleaning their own bedroom could be boring and unnecessary.
The second effect is that people expose too much of their life