In contrast to all the drivers for Facebook use, there are some barriers that exist that may be detrimental to Facebook use for current and future use. The privacy issue on Facebook is a unique one, one hand the user takes measures to share information with a group of selected people which could be shared individually and stored privately. On the contrary, the user takes an active step to ensure privacy from intrusion. This is much relevant to a situation where, after sharing his thoughts on Facebook, one of my friends ended up exposing all the information because an intruder had hacked his account. Such actions are demotivating and exposing people ensure other feel that Facebook is not the best place for them.
Although there are a few evidenced of intrusion were individuals are experiencing “lagging resistance”—a sense of wanting to quit but not doing so just yet” (Baumer et al, 2013) among Facebook users, in particular, the fear of being isolated and excluded from various social events is marinating an active use. An example is when one of my best friends after using to his Facebook account and connecting with most of his high school old friend, they invited him to their groups. However, to him, all the discussions in these groups seemed irrelevant to what he was looking for. He had the urge to quite but, was not sure if he would be left with any friends if he did quite.
There is a range of relationships that is currently enacted and that need to develop measures to capture the nuances and go beyond the notion of weak and strong ties. The intentions of Facebook “information seeking” strategy may be the first to the understanding of ways in which talent ties are exploited. This, for example, has been experienced mostly with Facebook users who do not often log in to their accounts more often.
References
Baumer, E. P., Adams, P., Khovanskaya, V. D., Liao, T. C., Smith, M. E., Schwanda Sosik, V., & Williams, K. (2013, April). Limiting, leaving, and (re) lapsing: an exploration of Facebook non-use practices and experiences. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 3257-3266). ACM.
