University Annotated Bibliography Review: Facebook Usage and Impact

This annotated bibliography reviews several research articles concerning the impact of Facebook usage. The bibliography begins by acknowledging the rise of social media and its subsequent impact on society, specifically highlighting Facebook. It presents a discussion of different perspectives, including the negative effects such as depressive symptoms and the spread of misinformation, as well as positive aspects like increased peer-to-peer interaction and platform development for people with disabilities. Key articles are summarized, contrasting the harmful effects with the beneficial aspects of Facebook, emphasizing privacy and security concerns in the digital age. References to the articles are provided at the end.

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Social Media came into existence since 1997 when Six Degrees website brought about a
revolution in the society. With the advent of Facebook, the usage of the social media increased
with leaps and bounds. People started using facebook as a medium of entertainment and for
gaining information asset from there. Here we will discuss how beneficial or desultory the usage
of facebook is.
According to Frison and her team, facebook is causing depressive symptoms and online
rumination as the people stay focused and continually thinks about the same things until a
solution is reached, which is harmful and mostly affect the teenagers. Although according to
Schmidt and team, facebook has not only increased the peer to peer interactions and the
availability of information but also have increased the spread of narrow judgments and hoax
across the world. All though these concerns are extremely noteworthy, according to De Wolf and
his fellow researchers, in the digital age when the security and privacy of the data is at stake,
facebook has developed certain strategies to prevent the intervention of the third party access to
the online interactions. An article published in 2014 has revealed the usage of the social media is
enhancing lives of the person with disabilities. On the other hand, Bartsch mentioned in his
article that one before communicating over facebook should be aware of the privacy literacy.
Thus it can be said that the Facebook if used properly can serve as an important medium
of information and news exchange along with providing platform for the people with special
needs whereas if not can lead to issues like miscommunication and health or psychological
issues.

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References:
Bartsch, M., & Dienlin, T. (2016). Control your Facebook: An analysis of online privacy
literacy. Computers in Human Behavior, 56, 147-154
De Wolf, R., Willaert, K., & Pierson, J. (2014). Managing privacy boundaries together:
Exploring individual and group privacy management strategies in Facebook. Computers
in Human Behavior, 35, 444-454.
Frison, E., Bastin, M., Bijttebier, P., & Eggermont, S. (2019). Helpful or harmful? The
different relationships between private Facebook interactions and adolescents’ depressive
symptoms. Media psychology, 22(2), 244-272.
Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Del Vicario, M., Bessi, A., Scala, A., Caldarelli, G., ... &
Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, 114(12), 3035-3039.
Shpigelman, C. N., & Gill, C. J. (2014). Facebook use by persons with disabilities. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3), 610-624.