Facebook

As humans, it has been a tendency of ours to blame entities outside of
ourselves for the problems that we create in our own lives. Take
Facebook for example. While Facebook equips us with infinite
possibilities in networking, marketing, and life, many college
students habitually play the blame game and like to label Facebook as
the culprit for their academia-inhibiting woes. And, as you may have
guessed, holding a person back from studying (as if that's anyone's
fault but your own) is not the only self-inflicted issue that Facebook
has been blamed for. Since its creation in 2004, the site has been
held responsible for everything from the breakdown of marriage to
childhood obesity. Below are a few examples of some of the outcomes
that have been pinned on Facebook and other social network sites from
the head of the Catholic church in Britain to University researchers:

- Facebook 'fuels divorce'
- Facebook leads 'children to suicide'
- Facebook 'killing off traditional sayings' – the assertion that the
social networking site was the blame for the “slow death” of british
sayings such as “a little birdie told me” and hold your
horses” (source was a survey on communication trend- researchers found
phrases commonly used by parents and grandparents disappearing)
- Facebook blamed for 'rickets surge' (rickets is a disease caused by
chronic vitamin D deficiencies, triggered by long periods out of
natural sunlight and a poor diet)
- Facebook 'turning Britons into introverts'
- Facebook 'makes partners jealous'
- Facebook 'challenges legal restrictions'
- More middle-aged people 'learning to love' Facebook
- Facebook makes users 'feel unattractive'

source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7521035/Facebook-what-social-networking-site-is-blamed-for-amid-syphilis-claims.html

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Lillian Nguyen
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