All day, everyday, and mostly everywhere are facebook home pages and profiles opened up and being observed for updates and news amongst our peers. Facebook has such a domineering effect on our lives that our thought process once near a computer goes as follows: “Turn on the computer, quick, go to facebook.... but wait don’t forgot to send a message to friend on facebook… think it’s an old friend’s birthday, quick check on facebook and post on their wall…oh, haven’t seen her in a while, let’s she what she is up to…”.
When observing the mass world of problematic internet use amongst college student, facebook is the fore front winner. It definitely a problem when I walk into the computer lab of the library and see the infamous blue border of 7 out of the 10 screens that are being utilized. Yes, it might only be for that two second quick check whereas you are just reading that wall post you received an e-mail about, but then the clicking spirals into a chain of viewing status updates, currents events, and coming up birthdays, not mention the checking out of the photos. The prime obsession with facebook users became very clear with the addition of the photo application, which has definitely added and encouraged to the abuse of the website.
For most users facebook falls under the two main dimensions described by Davis, Flett, and Besser, social comfort and distraction/procrastination. It is the one place where at any time of day you can see your friends through their photo albums and reminisce on the good times you had with them.
Facebook is such a problem amongst users, specifically college students, because to holds so many of the Wallace’s internet factors. It’s 24/7 access and affordability corresponds perfectly with everyday common broke student, all-nighter college student. Furthermore, its browsability and interactivity amongst on the expanded global scale makes it more enticing. You can contact your friends asynchronously and visually see what they have been up to across the world through their pictures with the click of a button. Caplan’s model does not apply as much to this PIU. Caplan model’s suggest that the cause of the PIU stems from negative perceptions about their social competence. Hence, the individual would prefer online interaction because it is efficacious and less threatening. The excessive and at times compulsive use of facebook with students does not necessarily follow the first part of the theory. Social incompetence of an individual does not automatically lead to the abusive of facebook; however it’s social distance still fulfills the reduction of loneliness or depression in one’s life. The heavy use of facebook is more dependent of Davis et. al dimensions. Facebook has grown into one of the biggest procrastination tools that the internet has seen thus far.
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