Good Influence of Facebook

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June (Ji Hyun) Kim ENGL121-105 Professor Pride Due: March/13th/2013 Effects of Facebook: The beginning of a more open and connected world As technology has advanced, the social network has enabled people to communicate each other easily. As Villier states, “[n]ow with all the different ways of communicating through social media, spreading ideas has become much easier.”Some people claim that such development of openness interrupts individual’s expectation of privacy. Others also state that commonly used social media, such as Facebook, makes people to spend much time and to be addicted. However, it is true that Facebook has become the most mutual source to build social life these days. Therefore, Facebook is a useful program to build social network effectively in that it connects people from different communities and allows people to improve social problems and business by creating public pages. First of all, Facebook connects people easily, no matter where people live. With search engine provided by Facebook, people can look for their friends or distant family members. By adding friends, people can stay connected with others; as their every post shows up on Home page. Not only does Facebook allow people to view other individuals’ activities and their lives, it also allows people to post themselves visible to others. Zachery writes that “[r]ather than trying to contact a lot of people individually, you can reach them with one post.” Also, Villier mentions in her article that within comments and feedback from people on their post, people tend to learn better ways to modify themselves or their ideas (PSA Journal, p. 15). For example, if a person wants to announce that his leg is broken, he can post a picture of his broken leg on Facebook. After few minutes of posting his picture, he is most likely to read comments and how many likes are on the post. Also, seeing

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