NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK ADDICTION

Social networking website, Facebook is very popular at present and human being becomes habitual of it. The number of Facebook users boosts up day by day. Apart from the positive sides of Facebook, it also has some negative effects also. People, especially teenagers make their habit to Facebook without realizing the negative effects of Facebook. Some studies have suggested that Facebook can cause many negative things.
Nowadays everyone has a Facebook account but it is used for personal use by some people and other uses it for advertise, or to keep people up to date on events, etc. The users’ decision causes either positive or negative aspect so they need to know how to manage, maintain, and use their own account. If people can not keep control over this addiction, then it may turn into the negative things.

Facebook is accessed by over 100 million users through their cell phones. People, who use personal computers to access Facebook are less active in comparison to those, who use their cell phones for the same. The entire world spent up to a whopping 6 billion minutes a day on Facebook. The requirement is to give a serious thought to this question whether time is spent or wasted on Facebook.
Symptoms of Facebook Addiction
Some symptoms of Facebook addiction are given below to help users in realizing whether they are really addicted to Facebook.

• Users and their siblings communicate through Facebook wall and messages, even if they stay in same house.
• Users check Facebook for updates and comments after every hour at their workstation or on their cell phone.
• Users wake up in the morning, and log onto their Facebook account first.
• Users’ Facebook wall is full of status updates, comments, and applications that they just used.
• Users give priority to Facebook over their commitments in professional and personal life.
• Users spend over an hour on Facebook at a stretch or in short episodes over regular intervals.
• Users can not stop thinking about Facebook updates and comments when they are offline.
• Users look forward to get home in the evening so that they can see what is happening in cyberspace. (on Facebook to be precise)
• Users can not go for a day without using Facebook, and even this thought makes them go into sort of depression.
• Users’ day ends with checking Facebook for that one last time bidding people 'good night' through their Facebook status update.

If users are facing any of these activities, then they are suffering from Facebook addiction disorder. Facebook addiction disorder contains the tendency to affect some serious problem of their mental health and social life. Therefore they need to throw away this habit as soon as possible.