“Specific Page Title or Article Title” | "Facebook users 'are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem'" |
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) | Mail Foreign Service |
Title of the Entire Website (not www. ) | MailOnline |
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) | Associated Newspapers Ltd |
Date Page was Last Revised | 9 September 2010 |
Date You Read It | 28 January 2012 |
<URL address> (ALL of it) | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1310230/Facebook-users-narcissistic-insecure-low-self-esteem.html |
FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): |
Because of its frequent use, it was found that, "Using Facebeook is the online equivalent of staring at yourself in the mirror"(MFS). |
It was found that the facebook not only creates promotion to themselves but, "People who constantly check Facebook may be lacking in self-esteem" (MFS). |
Self-esteem was not the only problem Facebook has created but when weighed the possibilities of narcissism, "Those who scored higher on the narcissism test checked their Facebook pages more often each day than those who did not" (MFS). |
When asking users whether or not their accounts are often used, "people get sort of defensive about it.. because it's a label that you don't want to be slapped with" (MFS). |
Due to, "more than 500 million users world wide..the word's biggest social networking website" teenagers begin to fall into trap of becoming self absorbed and drowned with low self-esteem (MFS). |
Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
MFS analyzes how Facebook has dramatically changed a user's life within a few moments. The psychological sources that have cited talks about how users are becoming more narcissistic and insecure about themselves. Although it may only be a site to keep close contact with friends, more users begin to drown themselves in the wasteful minutes or hours they spend on facebook. When tested to see the percentage of grades falling due to Facebook, the result totaled up to a 20% decrease in school grades.
Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
Author: The author of this website is MFS or Mail Foreign Service who serves the part of writing articles only for the website MailOnline.
Site: MailOnline provides information for entertainment, and knowledge of regular news sites have. MailOnline is published by Associated Newspaper Ltd.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
The author of this site only writes this article to inform the overly use of Facebook and how it distracts.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
There is a bias in this article because the author only points out the negative sides of having a Facebook accounts instead of listing both negative and positive.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
Citing the journal of Cyberpsychology makes the site a bit more credible and the polls taken also helps the article credible.
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
I will use this article to cite my sources in my paper and presentation.
