Facebook, the phenomenon you pull with and let's cry

Facebook recently announced that it now has more than 2 billion monthly users. This makes his "population" bigger than that of China, the USA, Mexico and Japan. His popularity, along with his influence in society, is now indisputable.

But for too many, the experience of actually using the site varies somewhere between them addictive and the annoying. A new shows that the reason for this is very simple.Facebook

Why:

What happens to other people concerns us, as it concerns us and how we feel about them.

For Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg and his colleagues, the ethos behind social networking is simple. It seeks to "empower people to build a community and bring the world closer together."

Offering people the ability to connect with friends and share important content, aims to strengthen relationships and social ties.

The fact that this is a rather idealistic picture of our society did not stop it from flourishing s. However, looking at what people do on the site, how they interact with each other and what they feel about the behavior of friends and acquaintances shows that the truth is probably more complicated.

Silent observers

The survey carefully examined a selected network with more than 100 Facebook users. The research findings show how we continue to use the site and stay connected to people through it, even though our "friends" often harass or generally offend us.

The amazing thing is that to challenge or sever ties, we continue to use Facebook to monitor them silently - and so perhaps we can have the pleasure of judging them.

In other words, Facebook reflects the dynamics at the heart of all real human relationships. Just as in offline life, people try to open and connect with each other, while at the same time they have to face the everyday frictions of friendship.

One of the most notable things the survey shows is the large number of people who said they were often offended by what their friends posted. The που προκαλούν το αίσθημα της αδικίας, ή προσβολής αφορούν εξτρεμιστικές ή ισχυρές πολιτικές opinions (ρατσισμός, ομοφοβία, πολιτικές opinions) και πραγματοποιούνται (κακά τα ψέματα) για την υπερπήδηση της καθημερινής ρουτίνας αλλά και για ακούσια ή εκούσια αυτο.

Why are we doing this?

The reason why all of this is due to a number of factors inherent in the type of communications technology that Facebook represents. First, there is a specific type of diversity that exists in people's electronic networks. That is, a diversity of people from different areas of each one's life gather in one place.

In Facebook, you write your message without knowing who will read it, but knowing that the potential audience will include people from different areas of your life who have a range of different values ​​and beliefs.

In the talks με πρόσωπο, είναι πιθανό να μιλήσετε με τον πατέρα σας, τους συναδέλφους or your friends from primary school in separate settings, using different modes of communication. Whereas on Facebook, everyone will see the same side of you, as well as read the opinions of those you connect with.

This means that people engage in personal conversations in a much more public space than before and that the different value systems that all these different "friends" have can easily come into play. .

But the nature of the links people have on Facebook means they often can not just escape from those who find embarrassing or insulting publications.

For example, if a colleague or a relative is insulting you, there may be some reasons for work or family responsibility, which means you will not want to delete them from your friends.

So members of the social network make discreet changes to their website settings to limit the posts they consider offensive to their appearance in their news feed without causing conflicts.

However, none of the survey samples reported that they reduced their use of Facebook due to frequent controversies…. during "pull me and let me cry."

The survey was conducted by The Conversation

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