Know How Facebook Has Impacted Your Life

Facebook lately had become an indispensable want that most of us visit at least once a day. The world’s largest social networking site has become a palpable reality, where its users can feel joy, envy, guilt, love, hate, voice and much more.

But have you made a count on how Facebook is hindering our lives in dreadful ways. Rarely, one looks at the harmful effects of it, but eventually the loss caused by Facebook is indispensable. But, it is good to be late than never, check these 5 ways in which Facebook is impacting our lives adversely as compiled by Oddee.com

# A place to walk out on your love

According to a survey, over 25 percent of users have already been dumped via Facebook. In June 2010, a survey of 1,000 Facebook users, 70 percent of whom were male, revealed that 25 percent had been “dumped” via Facebook.

And 21 percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to “single.”

It is too appalling how easily Facebook has become a podium where you can dump someone by just changing your relationship status from committed to single.

# Facebook users have lower grades than non-users

According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who use the 800 million–member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those who do not.

The study, made in 2009, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of non users, 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers.

It also found that 79 percent of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits.

# Over 350 million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD)

An American psychologist believes that FAD, or Facebook Addiction Disorder, is a condition that is defined by hours spent on Facebook, so much time in fact that the healthy balance of the individual’s life is affected. It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.

The most common effects are the loss of productivity, the inability to concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as isolation in the extreme cases. It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.

# Health Disorders

Researchers from University of Basel in Switzerland analyzed more than 300 students and found that that teenager who own smartphones spend more time online, like on any social media website during the night, which may affect their sleep.

The more your teenage son chats on Facebook during the sleep hours, more he or she is at an increased risk of sleep problems and depressive symptoms, finds a study.

#Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces

The biggest impact that Facebook has created among our lives is breaking crucial relationship of our lives. According to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, somewhere or the other, now one in five divorces involves the social networking site Facebook.

A staggering 80 percent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating.

source:siliconindia