The Bad Impacts of Face book Survey

Afif Ikhwanul Muslimin

State Islamic University of Malang

Facebook is called as number one social networking application program which is run by million people in the world today. Based on research by University of Alabama, the users of facebook are varies from elementary school students, teenagers, workers, and old man. They run this program not only once, but more they update, check, and give comments in facebook in a day. Furthermore, bad impacts are appeared as more people run facebook in the world.

The writer has spread 100 questionnaires to 100 college students from various departments in UMM university. The questionnaires contained 5 questions which were directed to dig the students’ opinions about facebook. These are the result of the survey:

1.      What social networking application which you mostly run?

The questionnaires said 100 % respondents said that they run facebook more intensely than other social networking applications

2.      How many times do you run facebook in a day?

There are 5 % respondents said that they run facebook once a week, 17.5% respondents said that they run facebook once a day, and more than 75% respondents said that they run facebook more than twice a day.

3.      How long do you usually enjoy facebooking every time you run facebook?

There is 100% of the respondents said that they run facebook at least 5 minutes just to check their “notifications” and then they were addicted with the “comments” in their facebook “wall” and “status” so that they continue facebooking till more than tens minutes.

4.      What are activities which you do in facebook?

Respondents said they usually do updating facebook status, checking their facebook wall, giving comments on others’ status, uploading pictures, and commonly they like to do chatting. Those activities are done by all respondents.

5.      Can a facebook give bad impact to someone’s life? Explain!

It is amazing since the questionnaires explained that 66 % respondents said that facebook gives bad impacts to its users. 20% of the respondents thinks the impacts of facebook are depended on users’ themselves and 14 % of respondents believed that facebook gives benefit to users.

This chart shows us that 3% of respondents being “narcistic” in facebook is bad and other 3% respondents explained that sitting in long time in front of computer or mobile phone makes someone is easy to be tired and dehydrate. 9% of respondents said that facebook waste their money since some of the respondents must go to internet café or buy more phone charge “Pulsa” to run facebook from their mobile phones. So, they have to have additional money each month. Other 9 % said that facebook make the user abandon their friends when they were in conversation or meeting. Users intended to pay more attention on their cell phones than their friends so that their friends might feel that they were not listened. Some of respondents, it is about 12% said that facebook makes them lazy since it is easier to talk to many people in many places without meeting them by mobile phone only. Three of the respondents explained that if someone mostly does communication by chatting in facebook, it will reduce communication skill in real life. Furthermore, some people use facebook to send their wedding invitation and event invitation which may means they do not respect the people they invite. Finally, the 64% respondents said that facebook often make users to be addicted and they thought that running facebook in long time indicated that they waste their time. It means that people tend to spend their day time by sitting with facebook. Since every mobile phone competes to get their market, each cell phone provide facebook feature in it. A report which was explained by daily mail, sent by Dr. Aric Sigman in The Biologist, a journal was published by The Institute of Biology which was quoted by Kompas that sitting in long period in front of computer is able to activate the danger of some illness such as cancer, stroke, heart attack, and dementia (forget). In addition, he said that meeting unseen people when you are sending e-mail or chatting will stimulate oxytocin hormone (Hormon stimulates someone to hug and meet others) formation to change and decrease the resistance of the body toward illness. So, sitting with facebook in long period of time is able to a big danger.

There are facts which also show the bad impacts of such as kidnapping, social relationship defect, showing their existence or “Narzis”, and spend more time in facebook. On Surabaya post online, October 1^st, 2010 explained that a girl, Demmi Langstone Sabtini (14) was lost with her boy friend who she met in facebook until now. A research by Soraya Mehdizadeh said that people who run facebook tend to be “narzis”. They always update their photograph, tell their life story, telling too detail their profile, and make their group with them as the founder. Moreover, to cover their lacks, they modify their photographs till it looks gorgeous so that it is able to attract other to meet and chat with him. Then, to do that, people can do “Lie”. Finally, facebook has many bad impacts and it is better not to be addicted by facebook.