Social media has been around for decades. Media has made lives easier and giving people more knowledge about different places around the world. Before social media people were kind of trap minded because they only knew what was going on around them, but social media is helping people become more open minded.There are many applications, (apps), for social media but some are globally used such as Facebook. Facebook is one of the most popular apps. Facebook was invented by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes in 2004 over a decade ago. “Facebook” a tool which connects people or makes them stay connected. People can use it to communicate from distances and it is free to use. Facebook makes money by giving advertisements to user, and the corporations whose products are been advertised pays Facebook great amount of money. gives the F People use Facebook differently some uses it for communication, while others use it for entertainment. It allows people to communicate with each other, aware people of what’s going on in the world, and helps people become more social. Facebook has made people’s lives better.

Facebook allows people to communicate from different locations in the world. During the interview with my brother Fazal Khaliq, Fazal claims that “Facebook helps a person stay connected to friends and families”, (Khaliq par.7). Facebook is an easy usable application which can be used through both computers and phones. It helps people communicate through messages or/and calls, but mostly people use it to communicate through messages. People can communicate overseas and be connected to friends or families by the use of Facebook which costs nothing. According to Pettijohn T,F, “Others, however, have found support for the idea that social networking sites and the internet have expanded methods of staying socially connected with others and increased relationship closeness and connectedness”, (Pettijohn Par. 7). Facebook helps people keep their relationships for longer and closer.Social media is really helpful for people who leave their countries or hometowns because they can still be connected to their friends from old place. When people keep in contact with others their relationship is most likely to be close does not matter how long they stay away from each other.

Facebook allows people to post videos or pictures of an event which then can be seen by almost all the family and families. During the interview with my father Abdul Shadizai,  Abdul stated that “the good side of Facebook is that it aware people about what’s going on in the world” (Shadizai par.4). Before social media people did not know when a government had taken an action, or genocide was committed, or anything from other countries. Nowadays with the power of social media, people knows almost about all the wars, and by seeing pictures posted by others, people can judge and comment there opinions. Abdul said that, “the videos and photos makes people become more sympathetic toward others and respect their feelings”, (Shadizai. par.11). Abdul made a valid point because by looking at others’ emotional posts makes a person have more sympathy for them. Someone once said “a picture worth thousand words”, pictures posted by others sometimes makes us appreciate our lives and what we have. During the interview with Fazal, he said that “the posts on Facebook really affects a person more than even when we see the same event in real, the music and tone in a video adds more feelings into the event”, (Fazal par. 10). If a person see an event in Facebook he/she is more likely to understand the feelings more than if that person sees it in real life because in Facebook the person who posts, add music or tone which gives more feelings to the video.

People who uses Facebook are more social than people who don’t. According to Pettijohn, “using social media can have positive benefits associated with community engagement”, (Pettijohn par.7). Social media helps a person become a  better communicator. The more people a person talks to the better his/her way of communication gets because when a person talks to more people that person gets to experience new and better ways of communicating which affects that person. By the use of Facebook people became more open minded. According to Pettijohn, “with the expansion of the internet and social  networking sites, more people are using technology to communicate with their friends and family online and maintain these interpersonal connections in novel ways that were not available in previous generations” (pettijon par.6). Unlike previous generations, this generation have the opportunity to communicate with others through phones or computers which can be used from far distances. before people could not communicate with others unless they were talking face-to-face, but now communications are possible from even overseas by the use of social media apps such as Facebook. People who uses Facebook knows better how to keep others’ attention because they have experience by talking to others online.

Some people do not use Facebook because they believe that it has downsides. According to Szekely, “Facebook users should also expect an immediate response when they post something online and that says to me people should be careful with what they post as there are no take-backs once it’s on the site”,(Washington par.6). Sometimes people posts videos or photos which later they regret doing,it is true that a video or even a picture can ruin a person’s life in social media with all kinds of people making comments. There have been many cases in which a post gets a person in trouble not only through all the social media but also in real life. Nowadays after so much experience with Facebook people are smart enough to think multiple times before posting anything. During the interview with Abdul Shadizai, Shadizai said that, “Facebook is affecting teenagers lack their communication skills”, (Shadizai par.9). Abdul believes that Facebook is having negative affect on teens social skills, but it is the other way around. Many studies have been conducted and the results shows that Facebook is improving people’s social skills.

Facebook is helping people in many ways such as communication, entertainment, and making people become more social. Facebook was created in 2004. It is been around for over a decade and it was getting popularity rapidly in the beginning, now it is still popular almost globally. Based on how popular Facebook is, it is most likely to be around for more than 10 or 15 more years. Many studies shows that this tool Facebook is having positive effects on people. In the future Facebook will be more appreciated by the current generations because it is improving our social skills, learning skills, and communication skills. The skills we gain from the use of Facebook are crucially needed in job places. Tools like Facebook are always needed because it helps people stay connected, and helps people gain more knowledge about others and events. People nowadays thinks that how hard it have been to communicate with others in old times before social media but it was not hard because they never had experience with it. Living without social media would be hard because people now are so used to it and always wants to stay connected to friends and know what is going on in this world. With all experiences of people with Facebook and all the studies it has been proven that Facebook is improving people’ staying connected to others and their social skills.

Citations

Fazal, Khaliq. Personal interview. 29 Nov.2015

Pettijohn, Terry F., Kimberly E. LaPiene, and Amanda L. Horting. “Relationships Between Facebook Intensity, Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem, And Personality In U.S. College Students.” Cyberpsychology 6.1 (2012): 1-7. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Dec. 2015.

Shadizai,Fazal. Personal interview. 26 Nov.2015

“Washington: Unable to Suspend Non-Students, University of Tulsa Settles for Hiding Facebook Posts.” US Official News. (February 18, 2015 Wednesday ): 615 words. LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2015/12/08.