With over a billion registered users and 500 million daily users, Facebook is easily the most popular place for social interactions. Due to its growing usage, Facebook is very effective and can be used positively to connect with friends and family. People can now stay connected to others and find new people with whom they have common interests. However, I believe that Facebook can also be overwhelming for some users and can harm them. It can hurt them emotionally and lower their self-esteem. Facebook makes many users happy and has positive impacts because it allows them to receive empathy, obtain positive stimuli, receive attention, compare themselves with others, find others with common interests and communicate with their friends. But overall I believe this makes users unhappy because they compare themselves socially to others, passively use Facebook, get bored on Facebook, consume too much media, and have too many friends on Facebook. In the history of its use, Facebook has been more destructive than constructive for social relationships. Some people believe that Facebook increases your happiness. Since humans are generally social with each other, they interact on an ongoing basis. According to the American psychologist Abraham Maslow, “[affiliation] is a fundamental psychological need that emerges as physiological and primary needs are satisfied” (qtd. in Teeth). There are “four underlying psychological reasons” why belonging causes happiness (Teeth). These needs are;i. receive emotional support ii. obtain positive stimuli iii. receive attention iv. comparing ourselves to others through a process called social comparison (Teeth). Even if Facebook m...... middle of paper ......Apr. 2014.Hu, Elise. "Facebook makes us sadder and less satisfied, study finds." NPR. NPR, August 20, 2013. Web. April 7, 2014. Jaffe, Eric. "We hate ourselves for spending so much time on Facebook. So why do we do it?" Fast company. Np, 8 April 2014. Web. 14 April 2014.Konnikova, Maria. "How Facebook makes us unhappy." The New Yorker. Np, 13 September 2013.Web. February 28, 2014. Parco, Alice. “Being on Facebook can actually make us happier.” Time. Time, March 31, 2014. Web. April 10, 2014. Parrack, Dave. “The negative impact of social networking sites on society [opinion].” MakeUseOf. Np, April 12, 2012. Web. March 31, 2014. Parrack, Dave. “The positive impact of social networking sites on society [opinion].” MakeUseOf. Np, April 19, 2012. Web. March 20, 2014. Shea, Andrea. "Facebook envy: how the social network affects our self-esteem." WBUR. Np, 20 February 2013. Web. 20 March. 2014.