Should social network exists?

While guys we have almost come to the conclusion. Now is the time for us to argue about should social network exists? This is because social network have bring a lot of negative impact instead of positive impact.

 We can see a lot of negative impact have given to the society and our country. In this post we are going to argue should social network exists in Malaysia. Please leave your comment on this post

Misuse of social networking websites

Joining different social networks is experienced through increased communication between friends, professional and businesses. With the help of social networking, connecting to friends and family is now easier since no matter where everyone is located. All everyone needs is internet connectivity so that their network could be updated with their activities.

Unfortunately, there are those who use social network for scams and other illegal purposes. There have been reports around the world that social networks are used to spread rumors, lies or degrading messages that could affect the person’s reputation. “Cyber bullying” or an act of being hostile to another user online has also been observed in some social networks.

This type of actions should never be allowed in any social network. Users have to be careful on the veracity of the data they receive and to take actions as soon as possible as soon as something undesirable is found on social networks.

For example,Facebook is the latest hot spot for swindlers or those who are out to commit cyber crimes and make this social networking website their jump pad to fleece people around the globe. These crooks use this website as their gold mine and to certain extent they succeed in their notorious plans.

Scams on social-media sites are much the same as the ones you may have received as e-mail, said Kevin Johnson, a consultant for Secure Ideas, which does security research.The big difference in the (social-networking) scams is the level of trust that the users have people trust them more than they trust e-mail.

Ultimately,we’ve become leery of unusual e-mails with strange links, but many people’s ingrained suspicions of e-mail scams have not carried over to Facebook. The social network tries to keep track but isn’t responsible for everything on its site.

Cybercriminals on Facebook today come cloaked as real friends sending messages asking you to wire them money in a foreign country or posting a note on your wall with a funny video that’s really a dangerous link.

The scammers are smart, sneaky and hoping you fall for their tricks. They do it for various reasons, including stealing your identity or using your personal data to sell to marketers or simply spread malicious software that can destroy your computer.They lure victims many ways, such as offering fake gift cards or a chance to win gadgets simply by clicking on a link or that oh-so-common Facebook “Like” button. But to win, the con artists say, you have to answer some questions and provide a cell-phone or credit-card number.

“Facebook faces a security confront that few, if any, other companies or even governments have faced protecting more than 500 million people on a service that is under constant attack,” company spokesman Simon Axten said. “The fact that less than 1 percent of Facebook users have ever encountered a security issue on the site is a significant achievement of which we are very proud.”Facebook has created a system to combat identity theft, viruses and suspicious log-in attempts. Its security team looks for strange activity that may mean an account has been compromised. The company can delete fake messages and block links. And it does go after scammers in court.

By the way,another source of scams involves the third-party software applications allowed by Facebook. The social network invites developers to create software programs for games, entertainment, businesses and shared interests. So far, there are hundreds of thousands of such “apps” available.An app may seek permission to access a user’s personal data. In most cases, that information stays with the developer, but some of them break the rules and use it for malicious reasons.

When use well the social netwoeks,like facebook ,it can provide marvellous advantages to us.We shouldn't use this tool without thinking.Be wise,and you will achieve better results.

Step to defeat Facebook Addiction Disorder

The social networking sites seem to be set up to draw people in and spend more time there. Majority of teenager’s n young adults in 21 century visit Facebook everyday and spend an inordinate amount of time on it. They visit Facebook with a simple desire to keep in touch with friend or make new one online, or perhaps to kill the boredom. But then, this desire has been change become an addiction. They allowing hours gone without noticed, the chores to go uncompleted, and even going so far as to ignore family and friends in the actual world. The addictive behaviors on Facebook are a growing problem for many Facebook users, company and society. Here are some constructive ways to avoid or cure this addiction.

1. Recognize the signs and symptoms. Understanding of the problem is very important to verify the patient who suffer from this addiction. Thus, the awareness of the symptoms of the addiction is needed. For example, You wake up and the first thing you do is "check Facebook". And it's the last thing you do at night is one of the common symptoms of FAD.

2. Admit that u addict in social networking sites. Once u recognize some of the sign of this addiction. U must admit that u is addicted in Facebook. U may write down on somewhere that u may see this easily or repeat speak out loud that u have a facebook addiction problem. Admit that u have the addiction is very important because there is no point in trying to beat an addiction if you do not seriously believe that you have one

3. Define your goal on Facebook. Start questioning what you are doing on Facebook. Rather than simply going on Facebook and “falling under its spell”, start consciously determining what you are really getting out of Facebook and using Facebook in a constructive way from personal or professional view.

4. Determini the value of visit Facebook. Identify the benefit and advantage of playing Facebook. For example, Do playing game on Facebook help raise ur monthly income? Do Facebook improve your health and productivity?? This is very important to find out the reason to continue visit Facebook and ensure a brighter usage of Facebook in the future.

5. Make a schedule for Facebook. It is important to know how much time u have been spend on Facebook, because it give you a measure of how bad your addiction is. U may set a schedule to give youself a set of period of time to visit to limit the usage of Facebook and manage you time for daily activities. After a certain period, the schedule can be change to lessen the time spend for Facebook.

6. Turn off email notifications. Email notifications are like little red devils coming to notice you the new news on facebook and attract you to come back and visit Facebook. Turn the notification off, so that you can concentrated with you work, you don’t need to be notified every time when someone sends you a message.

7. Turn your instant message offline. This will help you prevent disturbance from any friend that wish to chat with you to kill their boredom and prevent spend much time chit-chat with your pals without boundary and limit of time. If there is any important, they should give you a call through cell phone.

8. Find a alternative. Think of other things you could be doing. Instead of sitting in front of the computer to visit Facebook and check your friend updates, you could go for a gym, jogging, attend some event or go socialize in the real world. Facebook is not the only way to fulfill your free time or kill your boredom, a lot of other activities can be done to enrich your life too.

The government announce that our time wasting on Facebook addiction are costing the country billion Ringgit Malaysia every year because the productivity is lower due to we spend most of the day on playing Facebook. Stop launching social networking sites or banning these website is not a good idea to prevent the growth in number of Facebook Addiction Disorder. While, a few constructive way can be taken to connect socially via Facebook for lessen the growth of this addiction and prevent using Facebook in an addictive way.

Facebook Addiction Disorder

The explosive increase of social networking sites in this decade such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter, which added a new social dimension to the web. The development of these website followed by the growth of social networks addiction, especially addict in the current king of the jungle : Facebook. The American Psychology Association (AMA) has been labeled this new mental health disorder known as a non-medical approve term, Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD).

Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD), a psycho-physiological disorder that involved once person withdrawal symptoms, tolerance, affective disturbances, and interruption of social relationship. It is not a type of substance addiction but behavioural addiction similar to pathological gambling, sexual and shopping addiction. It describes a situation in which the time spend for Facebook surpass their daily activities like eat, bath, work or sleep. This type or disorder is very common among teenagers and young adults around the world no matter where geographical location they are.

Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel ( the one who published numerous writing about FAD online) describe FAD as it’s a situation which Facebook usage “overtakes daily activities like your normal function, eating, working, waking up, sleeping and many more”. Dr.Joanna Lipari a clinical psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles made another Signs for the Facebook Addiction Disorder and here as follow: 1. Lose of sleep due of Facebook, you’re logged in the whole night that affects your daily function and routine the next day. 2. You spend more than one hour, average time for any site. 3. Become obsessed with your exes and reconnect them on Facebook. 4. You ignore working in exchange of Facebook. 5. A day without Facebook give you stress and feeling of anxiety. http://answersto.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/facebook-addiction-disorder-fad-signs-and-symptoms/

Facebook Addiction Symptoms

• You wake up in the morning, and first thing you do is log onto your Facebook account.
• You spend more than an hour on Facebook - at a stretch or in short episodes over regular intervals.
• You and your siblings converse through Facebook wall and messages, even though you stay in same house.
• You can't seem to stop thinking about Facebook updates and comments when you are offline.
• You check Facebook for updates and comments after every hour at your workstation or on your cell phone.
• You look forward to get home in the evening so that you can see what is happening in cyberspace (on Facebook to be precise.)
• Your Facebook wall is full of status updates, comments, and applications that you just used.
• You can't go for a day without using Facebook, and even this thought makes you go into sort of depression.
• You give priority to Facebook over your commitments in professional and personal life.
• And lastly, your day ends with you checking Facebook for that one last time and bidding people 'good nite' through your Facebook status update. (You may even get an urge to wake up at middle of the night to see whether anyone has commented on your 'gud nite' status.)

Facebook Addiction Disorder can be cause some sort of physical n mentality problem especially the health problem like obesity and eye problem. Beside, a plenty of time has been waste due to some user put off their important work or study time to browse through Facebook. Thus, Facebook Addiction disorder is a serious social problem that need to be solve to overcome the problem that was brought.