Afif Ikhwanul M
Islamic State University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
Have you ever heard twitter,
skype, ebuddy, mig33, facebook, or friendster? I do believe that those words
are not strange in our ears. Many people in the world nowadays are running
those internet application programs not only by computer with internet facility
but also with their mobile phone. They enjoy running those applications since
they provide interesting features such as chatting, updating status, uploading
recent photographs, giving command on someone’s wall, opinion writing, doing
promotion, playing games, etc. since those internet application programs are
for socializations, they are called as social networking programs, and those
programs are mostly run by teenagers.
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, good and bad impacts are appeared as more
people run facebook in the world.
Many features of facebook give
ease for people such as meeting friends who are long time separated in long
distance and time. Then, they can do chatting and continue talking about their
activities, families, hobbies, etc. in addition, they can share their
photographs and give command on them, and also they can share what they are
doing in their wall by running wall post facility. Also, they can promote their
business in their facebook wall with pictures and business profile. In 2009,
many Indonesian used facebook as place to promote themselves to be government
officers. Since this social networking application program give many benefit
for maintaining social relationship, this program is good for people.
On the other hand, facebook is
bad for people, such as kidnapping, social relationship defect, showing their
existence or “Narzis”, and spend more time in facebook. On Surabaya post
online, October 1st, 2010 explained that a girl, Demmi Langstone
Sabtini (14) was lost with her boy friend who she met in facebook until now.
Since, facebook give ease for people to chat and check friends’ condition via
internet, it makes them being lazy to meet face-to-face to maintain their
relationship, and they think that facebook is easier and cheaper than they have
to meet the people they want. Furthermore, some people use facebook to send
their wedding invitation and event invitation. On the other side, people who
run facebook tend to be “narzis” based on research by Soraya Mehdizadeh, 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”. One more bad side of the facebook is 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. But, if
your facebook activities are only signing in, confirming friend request, and
signing out, it will not make you in danger.
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