The Positive And Negative Effects Of Social Media

Social media is a very popular and widely used medium of entertainment in today’s society that allows people to connect and congregate from all over the world without having to leave the comfort of home. In order for many people to relieve social isolation and loneliness, social media unravels new pathways of communication and can be used to help people open up and express their opinions (Naruse). It can give people the chance to share and express their ideas to a large audience and receive feedback. Large and small businesses alike use this platform of communication in order to relay information about their products and services faster by using promotions and advertisements on social media websites. While social media has proven itself to be helpful and beneficial in today’s society, there are many studies that show how it can take quite a toll on the mental health and wellbeing of the people who constantly use it.

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.

So many people already used the social media. Social media make users can easily participate, share, and create content including blogs, social networks, wikis, forums and virtual worlds. Blogs, social networks and was are the most common of social media used by people around the world. Social media is the average way of working in the form of sending message from one person to another and without limiting space and time, in other words mutually interact and socialite online and in using social media is in need of the kuota (a kind of pulse), if kuota is exhausted then social media it can not be used to connect. I’m interested to talk about social media, because social media development is very rapid. Social media very important to are in the daily routine of society. There some negative and positive impacts on social media. Positive and negative impact can a occur in accordance with individual responses.

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 Media, we all have some form of it. The Definition of social media is “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)” according to Merriam Webster. From teenagers with apps like Instagram and Snapchat to adults with Linkedin and Facebook. Social media is not exactly great and it has a very negative effect on society. Not only is it infecting our minds through our phones but it can even evoke dreadful situations and feelings. From the horrible feeling of “FOMO,” procrastination, and the terror of getting cyberbullied anonymously. Is social media doing more harm than good? The answer is yes. There are many facts and studies that show the effects of social media on people of all ages. Around 43 percent of teenages have been bullied online, this may or may not be anonymous. With hundreds of new social media apps coming out every month, such as Miitomo , Musical.ly, Peach and Vidku and even more powerful updates of the apps we already use and know, is the “wonderful” world of social media going to get bigger and bigger until it takes over our lives and for good? It’s slippery slope from here.

Most of us are addicted to the social media even me. In 2004 face book was created Mark Zuckerberg. After there were so many social media sites like you tube, Twitter, instagram, etc… Most famous social media site is Facebook, we normally call it as FB. Actually social media is affect us in so many ways not only the communication but also privacy, security are also involved. For an example if we post an update a post like “now I’m at Gallface with my family” this is a good chance for buglers to break your home. Now you can see how it affect to our security. Most famous retweeted news was “Harry Style: Zayan Malik splitting from 1D” and most famous musician is Shakira and she has 103.71 million Facebook fans(Statista, 2015) .Most of divorce cases created because involved of social media (Huffington ,2015).So many people out there watching every time his account every minute or two check his wall. It is not a good thing because how many minutes we are wasted for search gossips for a day.

Today, we are connected to each other in more ways than ever before. Our lives are widely visible online through social media. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram are just a few of the popular social media networks being used today. These networks are utilized by billions of users and the amount of time each user spends per day online is totally astounding. The content on these networks could be anything including photos and videos of our special moments that we love to share or perhaps content and information that we would rather not be made public. This content can be viewed by our neighbors, friends, family, teachers, students, and colleagues. This is exceptionally important to remember as the things we put online for the world to see could potentially have a lasting impact. For most individuals, checking social media is the first task when waking up in the morning and the last before going to sleep at night. That being said, there are many individuals using social media at work also. Workers say there are many positives to using social media in the office. For example, nearly 80 percent of employees who log on to a social network for work-related purposes believe it is a useful tool for networking or finding new job opportunities, while 71 percent think it is useful for staying in touch with others in their industry. (Brooks) There are others who would disagree and say that social media is a distraction or perhaps a good way to start drama. Regardless, with all

Social networking is great, it allows to keep in contact with family and friends, it increases socialization, an update of world News such as BBC and CNN. But it is not always great and helpful; we have to realize that social media also have the negative impact on the society. Many people are getting addicted to social media like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram. Social media’s negative impact is spreading rapidly; it is time-consuming, it is causing problems in a relationship, and a lot of people are going through depression because of what social media could do to their mind. Also, privacy is the big issue in social media because people put their personal information on their profile which allows others to know about them. In essence, as much as the social media has improved our livelihood in the ways we live and associate with each other, it also has daunting effects if used contrary to the prescribed means.

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

Social media is becoming the trend in this era. According to the McGraw Hill Dictionary, social media is the means used by people to interact with one another in a way create, share, and exchange information and ideas in a communication network and virtual. Social media is always doing updates almost every time so as to make the people who use them won’t get bored.

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.

There is no denying that within the last ten years, most of our lives have been changed by the advent of multiple venues of social media. Friends are made, old friends found, enemies are made, stars are born, elections are won, lost and tampered with, all due to the invention of social media. Has this type of media has positively or negatively affected the written word? My first thought is that it has a negative net effect on the writing overall, but as I began to research the topic, I discovered that some experts think the opposite. When I speak of the written word, I am referring to both formal writing for educational purposes and writing within the social media format. What is social networking? “A social network is a dedicated website or application that allows people to communicate with others using profiles, messages, comments, and images. Social networks usually include a list of friends, allowing information to be provided only to the people a user chooses. Examples of social networks include Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.” (Wood)

“Social media refers to interactive web and mobile platforms through which individuals and communities share, cooperate, or exchange information, ideas, photos, or videos within a virtual network” (Naslund 114). In the year 2015, over two billion people around the world had an active social media account (Naslund 114). In the past ten years, social networking sites have drastically changed the way society communicates by connecting others faster and over larger distances (Pantic). However, these networking sites have caused serious problems within our civilization. Social media is destroying society by limiting physical interactions, increasing harassment and cyberbullying, and decreasing mental health.

Living in a very technology  based world can pose both negative and positive consequences. Some negative consequences can be children looking up to social media celebrities  that are not good role models, and some positive factors may include computer based programs to help better children’s education. I will be talking about both negative and positive Sociocultural  Factors in society ,and how we can potentially better the circumstances at hand.