Facebook is one of the most popular and biggest social media globally that most of the people worldwide use and access everyday. It provide us with smart and convenient features that help us connect to the outside world without going anywhere but stay at home or office only; moreover, people nowadays can work and study or go shopping online at home via Facebook. However, despite these brilliant features, it is argued that Facebook also has its own psychological costs that are bad for the human being’s mental health.

To be more specific concerning the side effects of the social medium – Facebook, firstly, it can become addictive and causes intense passivity and weak communication. Besides society’s most common addictive substances like coffee, cigarettes, and alcohol, it is obviously that Facebook – a cyber phenomenon in the world – has been becoming a serious addiction got by people in all ages. In fact, friends, families, colleagues and partners nowadays are no longer happy and excited in engaging a face-to-face conversation. They even feel disconcerted because of having nothing to say with each other. Interpreting for this strange and popular situation, Facebook is one of the reason that people have been blaming on. Myriad people daily spend hours to browse Facebook, in other words, they are becoming phone heads or phone addicts.

Furthermore, the more people use Facebook, the more jealousy they get. It is obvious that people are naturally inclined to engage in social comparison. For more details, with just a glance at the New Feeds, people can updates from their social cycles; when people see someone who has a happier or more successful life then theirs, such as a new fancy car or an expensive beautiful dress, not only can Facebook make them feel like they are not sharing in their friends’s happiness and success, but it can also make them feel envious of their friends’s wonderful life. As these negative social comparisons happen and accumulate day in day out, human being will definitely get extremely depressed and anxious leading to the antisocial and autism syndromes that can cause a lot of serious consequences, especially the suicide.

Facebook can be awesomely good for humankind if they exploit it properly, and it can also precipitate extremely serious and unpredictable consequences if people excessively abuse and improperly employ it.

Facebook became popular thanks to its benefits. First of all, facebook can be considered a bridge. Facebook is the bridge that leads people to the world. Political, cultural, and social information is all updated on facebook so we can capture it. Besides, we can read the comments, the opposite opinions of people related to an event, to expand more understanding and thinking about a problem or incident. Facebook brings us closer to people. We know what our friends are doing, what our loved ones are thinking, what problems they have through their status sharing streams. And thanks to that we know around us, how life is going, how even in the distance away from us half of the earth. Facebook is also a bridge connecting people with each other. People can make friends with each other, talk and share things with each other even though they haven't met, just need to have similar interests and personalities. Facebook is a world for everyone to be themselves. It is a place where people with inferiority in appearance can confidently make friends with people without fear. It is a place where timid people, less socially sensitive, can express their feelings outside; a place where people have the freedom to talk about issues, spread good things together and condemn bad things. The poor children and families have been helped by posting on Facebook, and the robbery and foul stories are posted on facebook and educated. And so, facebook makes this life better.

But if not used properly, it is a double-edged sword. People are spending too much time on a virtual world to forget this real world. The world behind the screen was so fascinating that they could not look up to the sky once. Always look down and surf. The things that happened on facebook were familiar, but today my parents were sick, there was nothing in the society, they didn't care. Not to mention, the information on the face is not always accurate and reliable. Lots of information put up just to like, to increase likes. Spending too much time on facebook makes the learning of students affected. They live in facebook. They always want to know what people are doing because they don't want to be missed. They are nervous about how to get lots of likes, followers, and waiting for messages from people they like. They spend hours talking on facebook but one day don't talk too much. Because of the freedom of speech, the "keyboard heroes" began to delve into their personal lives, digging up other people's stories and being the subject of gossip. Not to mention there are young people who end their lives just to be famous on facebook. Self-immolation, jumping bridge because "want to keep my promise": "If possible ... like it, I will set myself on fire / jump ...". The superficial superficialities that leave behind the grief of relatives and friends. When used incorrectly, the virtual world is slowly killing your life.