Positive And Negative Effects Of Social Media

Social networking sites (referred to more broadly as social media) are a collection of websites and applications that enable users to swap ideas, post updates and comments, and participate in activities and events while sharing their interests with other users. From general chit-chat to propagating breaking news, scheduling a date to following election results, gentle humor to serious research, social networking sites are used for a variety of reasons by various user communities. Nowadays, nearly every person who has access to a computer and Internet indulges in some kind of social networking on a daily basis. The introduction of social media has changed the entire dynamics of our lifestyles: the ways we live, work, and maintain our friendships. Despite its numerous advantages, social media does yield some negative effects. However, the benefits of social media greatly outweigh its negative effects.

After debating whether social media has a positive or negative effect on teens, it has been concluded that social media has a negative impact on the developing teenager. Social media can be a great tool at times, by being a means to communicate with friends, classmates, and family members; It can also help spread your ideas, hobbies and life experiences. But after reading the article Studies Offer Mixed Messages On Social Media’s Effects On Young People, By The Baltimore Sun, it explains how social media has a negative effect on teens by causing them to compete (to have a better social media feed), change their body to fit into society (the ideal body shape) and the way it can makes someone feel.

The Oxford dictionary defines privacy as the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people (2017). It should not come as a surprise that websites designed to share pictures, ideas, and what is for dinner, leave individuals feeling that their privacy has been invaded. It is also not surprising that some people are oblivious to the effects of what they post online. It is safe to say the loss of privacy can be self-imposed for societies need to collaborate and socialized is the reason social media sites were created in the first place. Jeff Jarvis tells the need for “publicness” or the need to be public is strong upon our society today (Berkman, 2012). In today’s technology age, when everything can be found in just a matter of clicks, it is easy to overshare. Yet the information that is published or posted on social media sites is not the only information that is gathered and stored. Many social media sites such as Facebook, collect data behind the scenes and sell it to marketing firms and other data collection firms. Every “like” or when signing into other sites using Facebook credentials, something new is learned about the user. Infringement of privacy, whether self-imposed or not, can have both positive and negative effects on an individual in a social media environment.

Social media has evolved into an advanced form of communication all around the world. For instance, to speak with family and friends who are far away in a much convenient way. Thus, it can get addictive to some people, which can have a negative outcome because the consumers need to learn how to have balanced lifestyle. Social media has many pros to it and I don’t think they stand for a negative side; I believe, it’s the way the consumers can make social media negative. Overall, consumers shape the perspective of how people view social media. In other words, social media is a very powerful tool but it all depends on the way the consumers use it to their advantage. At first social media was used to communicate now as the society has developed social media is utilize for different matters. For example, people use social media to advertise, become famous, make connections and even income. Social media has taken a big shift especially the way everyone views themselves. In other words, social media has set the standards on how society is viewed what is right and wrong. Now this is the way social media can have a negative impact because not everything that is being stated online is true. Social media tends to give a non-reality point to live life for the consumers. There needs to be balance of using social media and how it can consume ones’ personality, lifestyle and vision on life.

When it comes to social media, there are many opinions as to whether it is negatively affecting people or not. Social media has many great uses that we all use such as, providing a way for communication through friends or family that live afar, promote business, entertainment, general socializing, and dating, you name it. But what is not expressed enough is how social media is a contributor to cyber bullying.

Social media use among adolescents has rapidly increased in developed nation and contributed in one of their favorite daily activities (Tartari, 2015). A survey conducted by Pew Internet & the American Life Project indicated that 75% of adolescents are currently associates with social media sites (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, & Zikuhr, 2010). 22% of adolescents logs into their favorite social network sites more than once or approximately more than ten times per day (Common, Sense Media, 2009). Osbourne-Gowey (2014) disputes that social media is a collection of online applications designed for adolescents and individuals to achieve online interaction enhancement. Power (2014) illustrated that use of social media benefits adolescents with the capacity to develop friendships, communication, share information, collaborate, and modify users-generated content. However, it has led to various negatives and risks impacts on adolescents. The main of this essay is to discuss and examined the impact of social media on adolescents in developed nation. The focus will be on both positives, negatives and the risks social media impacts on adolescents.

In addition, teenagers spend a lot of time in the virtual world, so they have the lack of the empathy to other people. According to “Miss Representation 2011,” Jennifer S Newsom states that “American teenagers spend thirty-one hours watching television, seventeen hours listening to music, three hours to watch the movie, four hours reading the magazines in a week, and ten hours forty-five minutes of media consumption a day.” Everyone can see the statics about the impact of social media to young people. There is a question for people is why media has the big affection for the girls. To find out the answer, people need to want this video. Today, technology grows more and more, so social media not only benefits everyone but also negatively affects young people. When audiences watch this video, they can see the actress, the singer, and the models who have the same thing with the sexy bodies. Then, they use their sexy body to serve for their jobs and earn a lot of money to become famous and rich. For example, some teenagers who have good appearances or sexy bodies will not want to go to school or to find good jobs, but they only want to look for jobs in nightclubs or bars in order to get a lot of money or to satisfy their demands. Besides, teenagers are influenced negatively by social media through the internet, and television, for example, sixty-five percent of women and girls have disordered eating behaviors because of wanting to have perfect bodies. Hence, the girl teenagers

“Wait! I have to check my social media!” This statement is something said by most people at some point in their life or even daily. Media is swarmed in our daily lives through television, radios, broadcasts, social networking, etc. The media allows us to keep track of friends, entertain us, online shopping, being alert, and more, but can the media be bad for us with all the miraculous benefits? Media does not always sugarcoat things with violence or tell us about the hackers deep within the systems. It is important to see the difference in the good and bad parts of the media and make sure that you are taking in a healthy amount of media without it being harmful to your state of being. Media has so many good benefits, but media can be harmful with our physical and psychological health, productivity, jobs, and relationships.

With high online activity teens said they have witnessed, participated in, or been a victim of cyberbullying. Some cyberbullies create one or more fake profiles in order to impersonate someone that a victim might ‘friend’ or find interesting. By impersonating, it allows the perpetrator to gain the victim's trust. Once the trust is gained, cyberbullies will reveal

Social media is one of the most widespread methods of communication and interaction worldwide. While social media comes in various forms, they all tend to share the same motive: Encourage the public socialize. Most would wonder how this could be such a bad thing and see very few problems relating to social media. Others see right through the illusion of the LED screen. The public can easily hide behind a keyboard without threat of confrontation for their words or actions on the internet. Anything and everything can be said and they will not be faulted. Social media is more detrimental to users than advantageous due to the allowance of freedom to insult, bully and threaten others without fear of punishment or consequence; cyberbullying

When one thinks of social media one of the first things that comes to mind is an application such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr and many other applications that allow one to share information on the internet. So taking that into consideration one can deduce that social media is any application or website that allows one to share information about them or about other things on the worldwide web in real-time. Before social media people wrote letters, sent telegrams or used Morse code. Writing letters and use of Morse code is being applied in some parts sending telegrams was phased out. Social media came with the advent of the modern technological age at the turn of the century. It is with the birth of computers, the internet, and the modern phone that social media took off. Of course with the coming of social media, many ripple effects were felt. Some of the effects were positive. Case in point, information is shared instantaneously and in real-time across the whole globe. The world has been transformed into one global village because of social media. As all things have yin and yang, social media came with a number of side effects; effects that shall be espoused in this paper.

When someone says the words “social media”, many people immediately think about posts and likes, comments and messages, a way to connect with your friends from far away and other positive thoughts. However, some of our political leaders have been using social media to their advantage, using sites such as twitter to influence people to vote for their party. Fake news also is very easy to spread on social media, causing propaganda to increase in our society. In our democratic society, we believe that ‘the people have a say’ but with the dangerous spread of fake news throughout the media, our democracy and citizens alike may be at risk. Of course, when someone tweets something on twitter you are not likely to think much of it. But these

Throughout the years, social media have advanced very much. With Facebook coming out in 2004, Twitter in 2006 and Snapchat in 2011, it has changed the world and the lives of many young teens. Today it is used for everything from our personal relationship, entertainment, to work and in our studies. People have become addicted to social media. I personally know a few who need to leave their electronics in the car so they are not tempted to grabbing their phone or tablet. Cell phones are a kid's world now because, without it, they cannot communicate via social media with friends or relatives. Some kids cannot believe that more than a few years ago cell phones were used just to communicate verbally. The cause of social media has affected many

ChrisBrogan (2010) – Social media is a new set of com-munication and collaboration tool that allow for different types of interaction that were previoulsy unavaible to the layman. Social media has many negative effectsthe first impact is porn because it can damage children under age due to view porn content. The second impact is crime because crime in social media is very very high which resulted in such an online pertitusi and trades its own child. The third impact is the negative that happend in the use of social media, among others, the difficulty of communicating on face to face because more often communicate far. It can happen because we are more comfortable to communicate remotely it can happen deception, fraud it not right to be promiscuos friend.

Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter are amongst the most popular destinations on the web. No doubt in some cases this has contributed to Internet Addiction Disorder, but have they on the whole had a positive effect in our lives? Some believe that the benefits provided by social network sites such as Facebook have made us better off as a society and as individuals, and that, as they continue to be adopted by more diverse populations, we will see an increase in their utility. Anecdotal evidence of positive outcomes from these technologies — such as political activities organized via Facebook or jobs found through LinkedIn — is well-known, but now a growing corpus of research on social networks sites