My Facebook Posting Habits And Usage
Since I subscribed to FaceBook, I use it on a daily basis as long as I am idle. I use the FaceBook app, the website and the messenger app. Normally, FaceBook keeps following each time you visit through any of the listed means (Giannakos et al, 2013). Moreover, even your friends can keep track every time you visit FaceBook. Therefore, through FaceBook one is able to track your sleeping because your friends are able to see whenever you are active (Yaacoub & Najjar, 2016). Every moment I am active on FaceBook, I am always sharing with my friends what I have found good to me. This can keep me active for a long time as long as long as I find people commenting back on my posts. I have a variety of FaceBook friends some even are from outside countries. Therefore, I am able to track information from abroad using those friends. In fact, what I love following most in FaceBook is the current news posted. FaceBook has actually become part of our daily life and we get in touch with many people through it.
I use FaceBook for various reasons; first and foremost is to get the information of what is transpiring through my friends’ posts (Fanny & Wing-Fai, 2016). By reading those posts, I get to learn many things through the comments, although there are specific people with a tendency of sending creepy comments. It is also one of the ways I relieve stress after a busy day. In fact being on FaceBook is a funny and interesting moment I normally use for relaxation and entertainment. However, I try to ensure that FaceBook does not interfere with my daily functioning. I also avoid so much liking dirty and bad news. Of course, the moment I like any post, all my friends are able to view what I liked and if the information is not helpful to them, it creates a bad image (Wallace et al, 2014). I also don’t like posting photos habitually though I see many people love posting and updating their photos from time to time.
Nonetheless, I try to ensure there is privacy with my FaceBook account. First of all not everyone can reach my account and read my profile. I have tried to ensure that only a few friends of my own choice can see my profile. Whenever I post anything that needs to be shared, I restrict that it should not be seen by the public but only a listed number of friends. I also ensure that I am difficult to be found on Google and people cannot access my phone number through FaceBook. There are friends with a tendency of tagging others either in a status or a photo (Carr, 2014). This status are always seen by many people, I tend to evade that by turning approval off such that those when anyone tags in any post, it does not appear on my timeline, that is just for my own privacy. More often, I like posts that are educative to the public and I tend to block and unfriend those friends with dirty posts like posting pornographic pictures. Therefore I try to ensure no dirty post appears on my timeline. Generally, FaceBook helps to connect and interact with people we know and those we do not know, get information from various places and relax our minds after a busy environment.
References
Fanny Sau-Lan, C., & Wing-Fai, L. (2016). Facebook Users' Habits In Getting Commercial Information: A Study On Hong Kong Students. Economics, Management & Financial Markets, 11(3), 56-71.
Giannakos, M. N., Chorianopoulos, K., Giotopoulos, K., & Vlamos, P. (2013). Using Facebook out of habit. Behavior & Information Technology, 32(6), 594-602. doi:10.1080/0144929X.2012.659218
Yaacoub, H. K., & Najjar, R. (2016). Effect of Facebook Friends on Each Other's Consumption Patterns. Journal Of Competitiveness Studies, 24(3), 177-193.
Wallace, E., Buil, I., De Chernatony, L., & Hogan, M. (2014). Who "Likes" You … and Why? A Typology of Facebook Fans. Journal Of Advertising Research, 54(1), 92-109. doi:10.2501/JAR-54-1-092-109
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