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Influence and Impact: Understanding the Role of Facebook Friends in Our Lives
Facebook is one of the Juggernaut which is used by the millions of user every moment and thus we cannot deny its influence on the lives of people using it. Making friends on Facebook is one of the common part of using the platform. As a result of which these friends interact to each other some of them may be known and other could be unknown. So the influence of both unknown and known friends on Facebook can impact our lives directly or indirectly. If you are also using the platform it is important for you to understand how Facebook friends can impact our lives in both negative and positive way.
How Facebook Friends are Influencing Our Lives?
We all use Facebook for making comment on friends picture or promoting a business or simply for breaking conversation with people by adding them to the friend list. But have you have imagined how they are going to impact and influence your lives. Here are both positive and negative account by which Facebook friends can make or break your lives.
Positive Influence and Impact of Facebook Friends
- We learn to Communicate
The Facebook friends to whom you are connecting with can enhance your communication skills especially writing and listening skills through vocabulary, voice notes and such other techniques used in the conversation.
- Get to Know About Worldly Affairs
If will stay connected to the worldly matters with the help of Facebook friends as everyone knows different things and they share them through posts of in personal conversations. Also you get to know about technology and such things through your Facebook friends.
- Boost Imagination and Creativity by Interacting with Friends
Many people are creative and innovative in their life and when you are having such friends sharing their posts full of creativity it will also boost the similar skills inside you.
- Enhance Critical and Analytical Skills
You will also learn critical and analytical skills through the deep posts and conversations made to good friends those having a broader aspect to see the world. So this is again a positive impact of social media friends on our lives.
Negative Influence of Facebook Friends on Our Lives
- Facilitate Our Priorities to Materialistic World
The Facebook friends can easily change our priorities towards materialistic world like having big car, dashing looks, good lifestyle and we start deviating from our goals of life.
- Disturbed Mental Health
Another big influence of social media on our lives is that it may disturb our mental health. If we are not getting sufficient likes or comments to our posts or someone make a derogatory comment on our post it may hurt us on psychological grounds.
- Make us Too Much Practical
Social media friends can make us empty for our emotions and we starts taking our decisions on practical grounds always. People only talk about money, looks, luxury and such things on facebook and even relationships are also fake on such platforms which cause emptiness of emotions in the life of a person.
- Disturb the Family Bonds
We often starts communicating to social media friends like Facebook and forget our own family. As a result of which we can say that disturbed family bonds are also a result of Facebook friends with whom we spend more than required time.
Conclusion
So these are the major impact and influence of social media on our lives. We should always use it in optimal amount so that it becomes easy to live a balanced life rather than imbalanced life where we are too much inclined towards luxury and materialistic world and also having a poor mental health.
