Question

analysis of an article entitled"Social Competence and Psychological Vulnerability as Predictors of Facebook Addiction" by Satici, Saricali, Satici, and Eraslan Capan (2014).

Answer 1

Nowadays, with the developing technologies and with an easy access to the internet, children as young as three year olds know how to operate certain applications on their tablets or parent's phone and computers. Almost everything is available online, ranging from productive to non-productive information. Internet has both pros and cons attached to it. While everything is easily accesscible on the internet which is a great advantage, the increasing number of cyber crimes are the biggest disadvantage.

Everbody has Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and various other applications which are a click away on their phones. Most people do not realize but these applications could be life-threatening to them. People constantly post their minute to minute, day to day activities, including their location. This could be a disadvantage to an individual who have stalkers out there, tracking their every move and have intentions of harming them in some way.

Aggressive behaviour could be exhibited by a person online both physically and verbally. Stalkers either track down their target's location, and inflict them with physical harm or could verbally abuse them online by making a fake profile. Aggression in general fosters dehumanization, as the person exhibiting an agressive behaviour does not think the other person to be human.