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"Criticism of Facebook"

Ethical Issues

- if applicable, maybe refer to valor more than aristotle due to technological aspect

• - provide explanation of ethical concerns in regards to facebook and its users
• privacy concerns
• how much does facebook really know about you?
• inability to terminate accounts
• providing user information to third party companies

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Under "Psychological effects":

Instant Gratification

• [Facebook instant gratification 'not healthy] -> http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/04/facebook-instant-gratification-not-healthy
  • behaviorists say that facebook reflects need for acknowledgement
  • we will do things specifically to post them on facebook in order to get feedback, or instant gratification, which can be unhealthy
• [Instant gratification is making us perpetually impatient] -> https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2013/02/01/the-growing-culture-impatience-where-instant-gratification-makes-crave-more-instant-gratification/q8tWDNGeJB2mm45fQxtTQP/story.html
  • instant gratification is making us less patient
• [Instant Gratification & Its Dark Side] -> http://www.bucknell.edu/communications/bucknell-magazine/instant-gratification-and-its-dark-side.html
  • too many people get the feeling that they will "miss out on something" if they fail to check their texts or emails or social media, etc.
  • the world's need for instant gratification is growing immensely, especially through the online medium of social media -> this is how social media sites have hooked millions of people
  • on facebook, likes, shares, and comments make users feel good -> making users come to expect this immediate response and satisfaction whenever they post a comment or picture
  • the millennial generation - born during the 1980s and 1990s - grew up in the midst of technology and feels the pull of instant gratification more than older generations
  • about 60 percent of 18-to-34-year-old respondents to a Pew Research survey said they sleep next to their cell phones so they don't miss calls, texts or updates during the night
• [Brief Happiness: The Truth Behind Why We Want Instant Gratification] -> http://elitedaily.com/social-news/instant-gratification/1157913/
  • quick and immediate attainability of satisfaction and happiness - it is a way of experiencing pleasure and fulfillment without delay or patience

"Instant Gratification" addition:

Facebook has received criticism for providing its users with too much opportunity for instant gratification. Instant gratification is recognized as the fast and abrupt achievability of comfort and happiness. We are living in a technological and social media driven world that allows for affirmation simply at the touch of a keystroke. Behaviorists have found that Facebook induces the need for recognition.The world's need for instant gratification, especially through social media sites such as Facebook, is growing now more than ever. Likes, shares, comments, and other notifications on Facebook make its users feel good, encouraging the expectation of immediate satisfaction whenever they post a comment, status, picture, etc. Often times, users will do or post things specifically in order to obtain this instantaneous feedback, which can be mentally unhealthy.