Different Modalities About Facebook

With the passage of time different new technologies and inventions are discovered. These technologies have both positive impacts upon the society and negative as well. Internet is one of the biggest technologies discovered. Internet has connected the persons who are very far from one another. Different internet tools allowed social interaction and communication among people and these technologies of social media are particularly used by the students and young people. In our country teenagers use the social media frequently because of excessive use and addiction of FB their attention towards study is distracted furthermore they use FB for making relationships with opposite gender, therefore social media became the source of negativity in the society. Generally, there are many opinions and modalities about the social media exist. People with low self-esteem use the social media such as face book to overcome the deficiency of self-esteem therefore by interacting with people through social media confidence can be improved. Secondly, the people who want to remove their feeling of loneliness use FB and make friends. From the studies, the concept derived that negative mood, keeping in touch with old friends and minimizing the loneliness are the main motivations of using FB. It is also belief that people who are more social use FB frequently as compared to those people who are less social. Some people believe that FB is a source of social relationship when they are single, increase the frequency of behavior of searching relations through medium. It is also concluded that there is positive relation of FB and wellbeing because of sharing useful information among people but too much addiction of FB can lead its impact towards negativity. Therefore, it is not an easy task to define the clear relationship between FB use and wellbeing as it depends largely on the people expectations towards the medium. After conducting a survey, it is concluded that number of female user exceeds the males and their average age is round about 24 years. The social media is useful for sharing information but there are some risks which should be considered while interacting through FB or any other medium. It is risky to share information and make friendship with unknown persons through medium because the person may have wrong intensions towards you and deliberately wants to know your secrets and blackmail you later. Scholars investigate the different predictors on FB and differentiate possibilities of modalities of FB use. After analysis, it is said that actual social relations influence the use of FB in two ways strong social relations in actual or face to face relations influence the use of FB in order to maintain and manage these relations whereas poor social relations influence the use of FB in order to make relations with new people. With the accordance of Hierarchical regression analysis, the modality of use was negatively influenced by self-esteem and satisfaction with life whereas the variables like worry about self-image, resource for social relation and dangerous place has positive effects.With the passage of time different new technologies and inventions are discovered. These technologies have both positive impacts upon the society and negative as well. Internet is one of the biggest technologies discovered. Internet has connected the persons who are very far from one another. Different internet tools allowed social interaction and communication among people and these technologies of social media are particularly used by the students and young people. In our country teenagers use the social media frequently because of excessive use and addiction of FB their attention towards study is distracted furthermore they use FB for making relationships with opposite gender, therefore social media became the source of negativity in the society. Generally, there are many opinions and modalities about the social media exist. People with low self-esteem use the social media such as face book to overcome the deficiency of self-esteem therefore by interacting with people through social media confidence can be improved. Secondly, the people who want to remove their feeling of loneliness use FB and make friends. From the studies, the concept derived that negative mood, keeping in touch with old friends and minimizing the loneliness are the main motivations of using FB. It is also belief that people who are more social use FB frequently as compared to those people who are less social. Some people believe that FB is a source of social relationship when they are single, increase the frequency of behavior of searching relations through medium. It is also concluded that there is positive relation of FB and wellbeing because of sharing useful information among people but too much addiction of FB can lead its impact towards negativity. Therefore, it is not an easy task to define the clear relationship between FB use and wellbeing as it depends largely on the people expectations towards the medium. After conducting a survey, it is concluded that number of female user exceeds the males and their average age is round about 24 years. The social media is useful for sharing information but there are some risks which should be considered while interacting through FB or any other medium. It is risky to share information and make friendship with unknown persons through medium because the person may have wrong intensions towards you and deliberately wants to know your secrets and blackmail you later. Scholars investigate the different predictors on FB and differentiate possibilities of modalities of FB use. After analysis, it is said that actual social relations influence the use of FB in two ways strong social relations in actual or face to face relations influence the use of FB in order to maintain and manage these relations whereas poor social relations influence the use of FB in order to make relations with new people. With the accordance of Hierarchical regression analysis, the modality of use was negatively influenced by self-esteem and satisfaction with life whereas the variables like worry about self-image, resource for social relation and dangerous place has positive effects.

Citation

Tartaglia, S., 2016. Different Modalities of Using Facebook: The Influence of Actual Social Relations, Wellbeing, and Attitude towards the Medium. Studia Psychologica, 58(1), p.3. O’Bannon, B.W., Beard, J.L. and Britt, V.G., 2013. Using a Facebook group as an educational tool: Effects on student achievement. Computers in the Schools, 30(3), pp.229-247.

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