The Effects of Using Facebook for Psychological Development of Teenagers

            The exsistence of facebook in the virtual world is attracted the public attention. Most of the public use facebook for doing many activities in the virtual world. Someone who likes using facebook very much are called “facebooker”.  Most of the facebookers are teenagers because most of them have facebook. Sometimes they also have more than one facebook account. Using facebook as a social networking gives many psychological effects for the teenagers. They are positive effects and negative effects.

            Facebook helps us to communicate with our relation easily. We can find our new friends trough facebook. This facilities can be used for maintaining a good relationship and good communication among facebookers.  This situation will increase the psychology development of teenagers because the mental of the people will develop well if they have a good relationship among others.

            Facebook help us accessing many kinds of information that we need such as information about education, culture, social, health and others. We can get that information not only through Google but also through facebook. If we have a new information about something, we can share that information through facebook too. Beside that, if we want to know about something, we also can search that information through facebook. So, we can help each others for sharing and searching informations through facebook. Finding important information through facebook is the same with learning through facebook. So, facebook is an exciting learning media for teenagers because facebook gives much easiness for sharing and searching information. The teenagers can apply the information that they get from facebook in the real world. This situation is good for psychological development of teenagers. They will feel that facebook give the easiness way to study. So they will have a new spirit to study. It helps increasing their achievement at school.

            The easiness way of finding new friends through facebook sometimes is used for doing some criminalities such as fraud and abduction by the deceivers in facebook. Many mass media often inform that there are many teenagers were lost because the abduction through facebook and most of them were killed or send abroad. This phenomena can decrease and disrupt the psychological development of teenagers if they become  the victim’s crime of facebook.

Many facilities that we can find in facebook make the facebookers feel that they have their own world. They will have feeling that they don’t need another people. This situation makes them ignoring their real world. It also also can decrease the psychology of the teenagers because they will be addicted to fcebook. They will forget their times and activities in their real world.  

            In conclusion using facebook gives many effects for us. This effects can be the positive effects or the negative effects. We as good teenagers should be able to distinguish what should we do and what should not we do when we use facebook. We should use facebook based on the functions to keep our mind healthing and avold ourselves becoming the victims of facebook abus