The Pros And Cons 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.

Picture this, you just got the greatest haircut of your life. Feeling good, you take a selfie and post it on Instagram with the caption, “Feelin’ good.” A few hours later, you get a notification that someone commented on your picture. That comment reads, “You’re feeling good about THAT haircut? LOL!” You were just a victim of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is one of the many negative effects of social networking and social media on teens, and could create a situation that results in death (Mulvihill). Some people, however, claim that social media can improve teens’ knowledge of current social affairs, but others assert that the cons outweigh the pros. Although social media can inform teens

In the modern world, social media is a major source of information for the public and for individuals. There are positives and negatives to social media for the Phoenix police department. According to the operational orders, these positives include community outreach, problem solving, investigations, crime prevention, and other related objectives. These can include burglary prevention, road closures, or weather emergencies. In addition, the department can use social media for investigative purposes. Such purposes include posting pictures of missing persons, gang participation, or wanted persons. For the department overall, social media can be beneficial, while social media can be dangerous for individual employees.

In today’s century social media is the main way to communicate with people with people all over the world. It has become very popular... even more popular than a text or video message. Social media is a computer technology that facilitates the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via communities and networks. The variety of social media services that are currently available can help benefit businesses, introduce an event, or even help you find a friend, family member, or long lost soulmate. Some social sites even help you find love. However, there are many positive things that can come out social media but there are many negatives too.

I believe that social media and technology is the most popular activity and material that people get attached and attracted to. In today’s generation, it has a part in some people’s lives that we may or may not use online source and because of that, it changes our lifestyle and society. Online activities such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon, Google, and others are giving us some advantages and disadvantages such as it allows us to look for information about articles, histories or in ourselves, making online businesses, and to communicate with each other.

James Karl Buck, a graduate students of United States happened to be travelling in Egypt during their anti governmental protest. He was arrested and detained in Egypt. Prior to his sentence,he sent out a tweet from the twitter to those who he knew and let them know about his problem. This began a quick process and a quick release. This is one of the best example for the utilization of social networking site.

Social media is a huge trend occurring throughout all ages of the population in 2017. In this article, there are a few examples of breaches in HIPAA. There is a photo of a dentist, dental hygienist and a young girl posing and giving praise for proper teeth cleaning. The photo was posted on Facebook. This causes an issue because even though there is nothing wrong with praise, they are giving away patient identity without consent for the whole world to see. Patient identity such as name, birthdate and looks should kept private and in this case, it was not. Another problem also encountered in health care is the concept of the professionals sending patients friend requests via Facebook. Health care professionals should not have any contact with their patients outside of the workplace. The right thing to do is keep personal accounts confidential. Taking pictures while in an office of any health care professional should not happen. There could be things within the office that have the identification of other patients that should be confidential. The health care professionals should also refrain from taking pictures because with Apple products now-a-days, every picture/video taken is sent to the iCloud. Things on the iCloud are not always safe, even if they aren’t posted to any social media. If you are a professional and take a photo but your iCloud is hacked, you can be fined with breaching patient confidentiality without any control (Emmott, 2017).

Society is being destroyed by technology. People are connected with each other but they are not really communicating. Technology makes people busier and they assume their online life as real life. People use social media to connect with each other instead of having face to face communication. Young generation believes that the social media is a part of their life. They spend a lot of their time on social media like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter. Social media help people to connect with the world but disconnect with near ones. People prefer to meet on social media rather than personal meetings. Technology weakens the bond within the society.

Social media nowadays is a thing that has become unimaginable to live without in this modern world except for the last few decades, everyone did. Social media has connected many corners of the world together. Without Social Media the World might not have progressed this much. Social Media is a term that has been heard even by the most remote areas of the world. Since the formal rise of social media there have been many apps, created for virtual communication with each other. There are many examples for the apps used for virtual communication which help you see another individual on the other end of your computer or smart phone screen, some of them are Microsoft Skype, Apple facetime, Google Duo etcetera. There are also many examples for chat based communication applications which are WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, i message and so on. What I want to say is that in this modern world there are many types of applications and computer software’s that have made our lives easier by connecting us to every part of the world via internet. However, we all know that there are two sides to a coin a bad and a good. In many individuals point of view Virtual conversation is not only lowering the value of physical conversation and meeting but is also spreading people apart from each other rather than keeping them together. There are many websites and blogs that serve in favor of this perception of social media being a foe to the society. However there is one that states both sides of social

Social media has taken over our lives. According to Washington Post, “the average teenager will spend nearly nine hours a day on social media”. To put that into context teenagers will spend more time on social media than they will typically sleep. With social media more involved in our lives than ever before, it is not surprising that issues will arise. Over the past few years, a few major problems have been brought to light concerning inappropriate social media usage. The common thread being the misrepresentation of the actual person behind the social media account. In hopes of preventing these problems, people should not be allowed to obscure their identity on social media because it leads to increased online predators and cyberbullying.

Social Media also known as Social Network Site (SNS) is a platform used by many for many years. As of 2017, there is around 2.4 billion social media users and over 20 popular social media websites. According to Grant (2016), What is an SNS? According to Boyd and Ellison (2008), there are three criteria that a website must meet to be considered an SNS. A website must allow users to “(1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system” (boyd & Ellison, 2008, p. 211). These guidelines may seem to restrict what can be considered an SNS, however there are still literally hundreds of vastly diverse websites that are functioning as such.” (p.269). It is a way to communicate with others, network and befriend new people.

Today, media has become as necessary as food and clothing in our daily life. Though it has enormous uses but its basic objectives can be enlisted as to inform, educate, entertain and influence the opinion of the masses. It is playing an outstanding role in strengthening the society. It is widely used to convey messages to build public opinion and awareness due to its inherent ability to reach to a large number of people. Media also has a distinct role to fulfil the educational needs of any society. It has made the today’s learner well equipped and teachers dynamic. It is apt to infer that the media has great influence in transforming society as the updates are available at our doorsteps. With the development of the society, we can see the gradual changes in the types of media and their effects on individual’s life as well as on society.¬ The literal meaning of media also points towards its characteristic which is ‘a carrier’ or ‘a mode’ representing an item specifically designed to reach to a large audience or viewers. This term was first used with the advent of newspapers and magazines. However, with the passage of time, the term

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, text messaging, and emailing, are just a few ways that people communicate through technology daily. Social media has made it simple for individuals to converse with each other instantaneously no matter where they are. While social media can be a good tool, it also has its cons. With the increase in social media popularity over the past century, social interaction has been negatively affected.

Online is where teens can post their problems and try to get advice. Once somebody puts information on a networking site, there is no erasing it, it is permanently on there and can be shared with the whole electronic world. Greenfield and Yan in their studies claim that social networking sites have done a great deal in persuading teens to partake in adult and illegal activities and use sites as a source where teens can spill their lives out. Teens don't realize what kind of consequences a simple post of alcohol or drug related can have on them in the future. Just because you are hiding behind a wall of social media doesn't mean that you still can't get in trouble with the law. Teens are being overwhelmed with the general public drowning them in material they are not quite mature enough to deal with yet. Networking sites are filled with risky behavior and, “ 81% referenced alcohol, and 27% discussed illegal drugs” (Greenfield). These statistics are very high considering the amount of information is shared on a certain social media site every day. Developers are trying to come up with a filter or function that will be imvemted into every social media website where they can advertise alcohol or drug related content to minors and if they are not twenty one years of age, then the advertisement will be blocked. Anything that is related to being older will soon be blocked. This is for the safety of the kids. Alcohol related issues along with drugs can damage a teens self esteem

Nick McGillivray (2015) discussed the pros and cons of social media. The positive aspects of engaging in social media are student users use social networking to discuss educational topics and are using social networking sites to talk about school assignments. Social media allows people to communicate with friends and this increased online communication strengthens those relationships. While grades did improve for light users, the grades of students who are heavy users of social media tend to suffer. Users are vulnerable to crime.