Abstract
This paper explores several articles that report on result from research conducted on how Facebook is ruining our real identity. The articles show how Facebook is ruining our identity in different forms. The article of Mehdizadeh (2010) demonstrates how the target for some now in their use of Facebook ends up being the way by which they can curry affirmation, status, being celebrated and, by development, certainty through their profiles and postings. This paper examines Jabee and Afshar (2016) to suggest that there were more than 148,000 setbacks of personality burglaries in the UK in 2015, differentiated and ideal around 94,500 of each 2014. Facebook has made individuals lose a few fellowships and overlook how to collaborate with others up close and personal. It can be argued that Facebook has been ruining our real identity by changing people’s self-esteem as it makes them to think what people are thinking about them. Facebook user’s identities are in danger as their personal information are being stolen by hackers which is causing lots of problems nowadays.
Facebook is ruining our real identity
INTRODUCTION
Social media site is a famous type of communicating with companions around the bend and around the world. It has turned out to be one of the best types of communications even over the mobile phones. Like innovation, our species has adjusted to fit present day times. Through these adjustments, we have started to impart through our recently created innovation by methods for online networking. In the present society, we are encompassed by social media sites, for example, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and different sites that can customarily devour our lives. The world is closer and more associated due in no little part to social media sites, and loved ones a huge number of miles away are yet a tick away. Anybody with an email account and an Internet connection can transform Facebook into a soapbox and this social media platform has featured worldwide governmental issues and made nearby groups more tightly. With around 350 million dynamic users, Facebook is a standout amongst the most famous networking site ever (Valenzuela, Correa & Gil de Zúñiga, 2017). While it might have advantages, for example, interfacing one with companions, it might likewise have exceptionally negative impacts that could be irreversible. At a speedy look, Facebook might be seen as a captivating and pleasant site, yet the addictions that occasionally emerge from abuse connect to lethal impacts. In this conference paper, it will be shown how Facebook has been ruining our real identity as it brings the world together. People’s real identities are in danger in this virtual world as their self-esteem are being destroy by making them think what people believe or talk about them and also their identity are being stolen by other people for dangerous activities. Also Facebook is detaching users from their digital persona is another way of how their real identities are being affected.
- FACEBOOK IS DESTROYING SELF-ESTEEM
Social media sites are not simply taking your information and spreading false news, in the present day online networking is making us paranoid, envious and harder to interface with. Facebook was at first set up to have just a single sort of “companion,” so every individual you acknowledged as a companion would see the greater part of your posts. For the last number of years, the site has been extending its alternatives for arranging by “close friends,” “colleagues,” and different groups, for example, those in light of region or school friends, so users can shape their news feeds and make focused on postings (Gonzales & Hancock, 2011). Some new social issues have risen because of these merged groups of friends. Would it be advisable for a Facebook user to tag his companion “JONH” in a photograph he posted on Facebook in the event that he realize that his companion Ben disdains her? In the event that he doesn’t tag her, will she be affronted? Regardless of whether he don’t post an update, does he has to request that John not tag him in one of her updates since he is worried about Ben’s conceivable response? All these types of questions keep copping up on a Facebook user’s mind. Also Facebook has made us move far from communicating our self-identities and toward developing facades in view of the responses to these questions, “By what means will others take a look at me?” and “How might I guarantee that others see me positively?” The objective for some now in their utilization of Facebook turns out to be the manner by which they can curry acknowledgment, status, being famous and, by expansion, confidence through their profiles and postings (Mehdizadeh, 2010). Mindfulness and self-expression offer approach to impression administration and self-advancement.
The cruel truth is that the majority of us are simply searching for validation. We simply need a group of individuals to “like” our post. It influences us to feel imperative. It influences us to feel well known. You cherish hearing that a notification come in. You cherish standing out enough to be noticed. You cherish the sentiment endorsement that accompanies every single “like” your new post receives. The issue is that Facebook enables you to “enjoy” this intuition without any difficulty. And after that you get dependent. You “require” to feel this validation now and again to like yourself… You start to depend on “likes” keeping in mind the end goal to be sure (Kariou, Antoniou, Bebetsos & Athanasios, 2016). When you’re exhausted, or anxious, checking your telephone gives you a comment. However, in the event that you’re always perusing through photographs, sending messages, or contemplating what to post straightaway, you can never really be locked in with what you’re doing. Your brain will dependably be wandering. You’ll never have the capacity to hang out with companions, watch a film, or go out on the town without worrying about checking your telephone. And this will keep you from being a sure, grounded man (Andreassen, Pallesen & Griffiths, 2017). Confidence comes when you connect with completely with what you’re doing and act without considering or second-speculating yourself. Be that as it may, in case you’re dependent via Facebook, at that point it will be about difficult to accomplish a completely certain, current situation with mind. You will dependably have that “desire” to see the most recent updates.
- FACEBOOK IS RUINING OUR IDENTITY BY GIVING RISE IN IDENTIFY THEFTS
Hackers are progressively utilizing social networking sites, for example, Facebook for prompting enormous ascent in identity fraud. The quantity of casualties of data fraud ascended by 57 computers a year ago, Cifas, the fraud prevention service, said. There were in excess of 148,000 casualties in the UK in 2015, contrasted and right around 94,500 of every 2014 (Jabee & Afshar, 2016). Fraudsters frequently trawl online networking destinations to discover individual data, for example, your name, date of birth, address and name of your bank. They will accumulate the data in various ways, including hacking if an organization that holds data about you doesn’t ensure its information appropriately. They will likewise utilize web-based social networking to “put the bits of somebody’s character together”. With the expanded worldwide utilization of social networking sites, there are more open doors than any other time in recent memory to take characters or execute misrepresentation on the web. For instance, information posted on Facebook and numerous other online networking destinations can be utilized by offenders. On the off chance that you post that you’re away in the midst of a vacation, you’ve opened yourself up for theft. On the off chance that you specify that you’re away on business for an end of the week, you may leave your family open to attack or burglary. With regards to stalking or taking a personality, utilization of photograph and video-sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube give further bits of knowledge into you, your family and companions, your home, most loved side interests and interests (Nosko, Wood & Molema, 2010). Regardless of whether you delete your Facebook account and cut yourself off from online networking sites, there’s likely sufficiently still data about you out there to help the hackers get to your budgetary life. Free games and quizzes appear like fun, however ordinarily their motivation is to steal data about you and your companions. Identity tests on Facebook. Numerous are set up by character criminals to get individual data about you.
After some time, Facebook affects singular prosperity, rising awful emotions on an opportunity to-time premise and reduction fulfilment of life. One of the primary reasons is fake identity. A report has stated that around 83 million profiles from various one billion were not genuine profiles (Demange, 2010). It is to be featured that a person’s actual personality is the thing that separates and recognize one’s self on the planet. It is molded through the impacts of religion, culture, encounters and individuals in a single’s life However, Facebook has to a great degree empowered fake personality, which are thus reassuring the digital dangers and ruining genuine characters of individuals. Digital threats are e-borne acts; they can possibly influence a computer or system frameworks or even their information or honesty. One of the fundamental illustrations that will be considered as for the exchange of fake character and digital dangers is digital stalking. Digital stalking might be thought to be where one can steal the client’s personality by distributing purposeful publicity about the client as far as photographs or content to pornhubs. One case is a “requital porn stalker” who utilized private photographs which was saved money on a memory card making a phony profile of his ex and transferred “unequivocal” photographs of her. This prompted the ex’s endeavour to suicide. The fake introduction in this manner demonstrates a fake character overshadowed the genuine personality in the above case through Facebook (Wu, Chou, Tseng, Lee & Chen, 2017). Hereby, it can be expressed that genuine character has been dissolved with the nearness of individuals who claims to be the client on acclaimed SNS among which Facebook is one.
- FACEBOOK IS DETACHING US FROM DIGITAL PERSONA
Facebook won’t be a positive impact in a person’s life in the event that it is being utilized as a genuine expansion of their real identity. It is a personality that is as of now delicate to genuine ecological powers and mental hindrances and can be entertaining. Facebook can be fine, on the off chance that users treat it like what it is at its centre and nothing more. It isn’t worked for depth, riveting exchange and common talk. It is particularly not worked for significant social personality. This social media tool is worked to share goodies of data, pictures and memes. It is for keeping free tabs on individuals we don’t generally have room schedule-wise to become more acquainted with on a more profound level. Getting it done Facebook is a façade where we consent to not consider excessively important, in light of the fact that we comprehend our real life identity runs considerably more profound than a photo and two or three updates (Hevern, 2011). Facebook is enticing people to assemble ‘mediated associations’ with screens, gadgets, the cloud and soon, by means of expanded and virtual reality, as opposed to with genuine individuals that are directly before our noses. Facebook has astutely changed real human fellowship with a relatively dark mirror type simulation that is a sort of virtual reality that sustains off the human requirement for positive confirmation. Facebook has moved toward becoming precisely the inverse of social since there is literally nothing social around an algorithmic meta-brain whose exclusive concern is to get inside our heads and control our reasoning with the goal that it and its promoters can pitch more stuff to us.
In a national study directed from 2010 – 2015, young people by and large spend over 7.5 hours utilizing Facebook a day (Tsay-Vogel, Shanahan & Signorielli, 2016). With various types of media having a powerful impact in a youths’ life, their apparent social standards are genuinely affected. Teenagers are impacted by the content they are uncovered, concerning their insight about the world, their states of mind and values, and their conduct. The attention to Visual ID is posted all over online networking sites and is spread all around magazines and television programs, in the wake of taking a gander at a few numbers. Researchers have discovered that up to 73% of young lady’s utilization social networking sites and I do feel that there are a great deal of risks in the wake of taking a gander at these insights and how simple it is for youngsters to get to this data and the simplicity high school girls need to mirror their role models (Oberst, Wegmann, Stodt, Brand & Chamarro, 2017). Many individuals endeavour to make another self through social networking sites. With applications like Facebook, individuals attempt to make a veneer of themselves. They do things they wouldn’t do in reality, another identity is framed to seem as though somebody extraordinary. You at that point lose your trust of individuals on the web; however for a man whose lost, online networking can be an outlet to let everything go namelessly. There are individuals who can state whatever they need to the world without feeling excessively condemned. A few people utilize this unknown energy to assault other individuals (Arteaga Sánchez, Cortijo & Javed, 2014). For the general population who utilize it as a type of articulation, it enables them to have the security of demonstrating their interests without the inclination that they will be oppressed.
CONCLUSION
To conclude, Facebook has caused people to lose some friendships and forget how to interact with others face-to-face. It can be argued that Facebook has been ruining our real identity by changing people’s self-esteem as it makes them to think what people are thinking about them. Also Facebook hacks is leading to rise in identity thefts and Facebook is detaching us from digital persona. This has prompted individuals overlooking meaningful gestures and getting to be unbalanced. That as well as thought that it was harder to make companions in view of Facebook. There might be some good parts of Facebook and other online networking sites yet the good is exceeded by the bad. There are an excessive number of negative things that originate from the use and introduction to Facebook or any online networking site. Every good thing accompany a cost and the cost of Facebook is too huge for all the terrible things that accompany it.
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Hi Mohesh, I was really drawn to your paper because my paper like yours discussed what social media is doing to a person’s self-esteem, however we looked at it from two very different points of view. Your paper addressed the personal anxiety that social media platforms such as Facebook can cause, resulting in the individual to worry about how they are perceived by others online. Whereas my paper addressed the confidence social media platforms have given to people to share their information and who may have struggled to make connections with others in an offline environment. If there is one thing that both our papers demonstrate is that social media platforms do different things for every person – we are all different. I felt you probably could have dedicated your entire paper to the issue around self-esteem and focused on several types of behaviours to illustrate how our self-esteem makes us all behave differently online. You seemed to try and cover off on too many areas for the length of the paper. Each area deserved its own paper. My only other comment would be that I feel your conclusion needed to be stronger as I was unsure of what your argument was at the end. It read as though it was a summary rather than a position statement.
Hello Jilian. Thanks for the advice for the conclusion part. I will have a look at it and work on it.
Hey Mohesh,
I chose to read your conference paper initially because of the title of it and how much it intrigued me to read on. I definitely wasn’t disappointed as I found your paper very interesting to read and process.
First off, the statistics in your abstract really surprised me, in particular that there were more than 148,000 setbacks of personality burglaries in the UK in 2015. That number surprised me and I can see why you chose to write about Facebook’s role in this issue. Furthermore, your quote that “Facebook has been ruining our real identity by changing people’s self-esteem as it makes them to think what people are think about them” really resonated with me, as I think it does with everyone. I believe that is the main motivation for online users to construct identity in today’s context, it is completely dependable on other people’s approval and acceptance, something you touched upon within your abstract, well done.
While I completely agree with everything you mention regarding Facebook and the need for validation. I do think (personally) that it is a little out-dated. Specifically to Facebook, I don’t use the platform anymore and I think a lot of people my age (20’s) don’t use it as much as they did a few years ago. Instagram definitely takes priority amongst my generation, and the same sort of concerns you’ve brought up apply directly to Instagram. I think your paper would still portray the same message if you just replaced Facebook with Instagram, because it’s all relevant regardless of which platform you’re talking about. What do you think about this?
Reading throughout your paper, I was actually really intrigued by your stance towards Facebook and how users should utilise it. Here you state that Facebook is fine as long as you treat it as what it is and at its complete core function, you even point out that it is “particularly not worked for significant social personality.” While I completely agree with your points, with regards to my own conference paper, I’ve taken almost the complete opposite approach. I’ve been advocating for the accessibility and opportunities platforms such as Facebook can provide for people to make connections and build friendships online, a concept you’ve appeared to almost dismiss entirely.
While I really enjoyed reading your paper and your particular perspective towards Facebook, I don’t think its entirely ‘ruining’ our real identities. I definitely think platforms such as Facebook and Instagram are heavily affecting and influencing users to act and behave in a certain way, yes of course. I personally wouldn’t go as far to say ruin though. Would you consider refraining from saying ruin, and say heavily affect or influence instead? Or are you fixed on the fact that Facebook is ruining our real identities.
Something for you to think about and I would love to hear your thoughts regarding this.
Very well done!
Hey Mohesh,
The title of your paper was what caught my eye, as this is a topic that is frequently argued and I was interested to see what your opinion was. You focused on how Facebook and other social media platforms can have a major affect on self-esteem. I have to agree with this part of the paper as content that is posted online can portray false information or even a better version of ones self. This doesn’t just provide friends and followers with lies about a person, but it can have an affect on others who may see their content and begin to compare themselves to this false identity. Validation is certainly something that a lot of people rely on when posting content, but I can agree that this sense of competition can drag people down.
Although I did agree with one section of your paper, I have to say that I don’t think that Facebook is the reason for “ruining” our identities. There are many people out there who use the platform to keep in touch and up to date with friends and unless you get sucked into that ‘fake’ world, Facebook can be a great site to show your friends and family what you have been up to and a place where you can interact without too much effort.
Sophia
Hey Mohesh,
Your conference paper was extremely interesting. The title, ” Facebook is ruining our real identity” is very eye catching ans very bold. It is very interesting to see that a social media platform which we take for granted such as Facebook, can in fact do us harm in ways such as you mentioned such as lower self esteem or identity theft. I have to agree about the part in your paper where you mention about providing false information online. This has indeed become a huge problem in today’s society. Your paper focuses on how Facebook can affect identity and this relates really well with my topic where I talk about behavioral impacts of the youth. I thoroughly enjoyed your paper and it would be great if you checked out mine too.
Hi Mohesh
Your title of the paper got my interest as Facebook is a platform I am a member of and is quite controversial. I thought the points you made about posting to Facebook to seek validation and increase self-esteem is quite relevant and can also be seen a lot on other social media platforms, especially Instagram. Sometimes it feels people post only the good stuff or false information about their lives to try look and feel better than other people.
However, I do also think Facebook provides tools and functions to help users maintain connections and create new ones without a lot of effort. I don’t think Facebook is the completely ‘ruining’ identities, I think it just allows users to be more selective of what people see about their identity.
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Hello May,
Thanks for your views.
When analyzing the good and bad part of Facebook concerning self esteem, i would presume that the bad arguments have an upper hand on the good one.
Hey there, well I do agree that Facebook is a platform where many people engage and interact among themselves. It is a place where instant news and information is shared. Furthermore, it is a platform where many users have a freedom of speech. They can voice out their opinions and point of views. Moreover, some of them gain their confident by posing images. It is a way to boost up their confidence. Have a look at my paper and don’t forget to comment.
https://networkconference.netstudies.org/2018Bentley/2018/05/20/are-muslim-women-challenging-stereotypes-on-online-communities-2/
Hello Tannavee, hope you enjoy reading my paper, and thanks for your opinion. I would like to know what are your views on Privacy concerning Facebook?
Hi Mohesh,
what an interesting and strongly argued paper! I loved yor dedication to your argument, it seems like something that you are really passionate about!
I liked your addition about anonymity in your last paragraph, and how sometimes ‘fake’ profiles or psuedonyms, even on Facebook, can allow people to speak more freely. This is something I address in my paper, saying how the ability to sheild your ‘real’ life from online life can be extremely beneficial in the formation and expression of identity. What is your stance on the ‘real name’ policy that Facebook and Mark Zuckerburg are pushing, do you think that it is something that could potentially worsen the negative effects you speak of, if people are forced to have their Facebook linked to their everyday life, instead of just a way to share with friends they trust? I think forcing people to adopt their ‘real name’ on the internet will enhance the negativity surrounding Facebook that you mentioned, and those trying to use Facebook for its ‘core’ purpose as you put it, but separate from their offline world will suffer because of it.