The Pros And Cons Of Social Media

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One danger that is often overlooked by social networking users is social comparison. The phrase “social comparison” refers to the idea that people determine their own self-worth through evaluating and comparing themselves to others. This is especially prevalent on social networking sites. Users of social networking sites often strive to make their lives seem perfect. In order to achieve this, users will only post their “highlights” or positive points in their lives. One author states, "When you're on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison — you maybe feel your life is not as full and rich as those people you see on Facebook,” ("Social Media: Does social media have a positive impact on the world?"). However, it is not the fact that the users may unintentionally be posting only their highlights that could be potentially dangerous. Rather, it is the fact that another user may compare their own life to another user’s. For example, a user could be scrolling through a site and see another user’s highlights and begin comparing their own life to the other user’s. As a result, a user could start to develop a lower self-esteem. Their sense of self-worth may also be damaged in the process. This obsession of one’s self-image can have severe consequences such as feelings of depression or loneliness ("Social Media: Does social media have a positive impact on the world?").

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 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.

Social media, has proved advantageous since its creation, as around 40 percent of the global population uses it on an everyday basis. However, many skeptics find a lot of faults with the creation and uses of social media among today’s population. Social media is said to provide a lack of emotional connection between individuals, causing the quality of a conversation to decrease. The tool decreases face-to-face interactions because someone could develop such a reliability of talking virtually, they lack intimate conversational skill. Social media makes society stupid and ignorant, as a piece of information being shared will be seen as credible without actual fact checking. One of the biggest concerns with social media is its supposed

We reside in a world where technology allows different personalities to reach the largest day-to-day audience around the globe by connecting them to their world via different social media network. As Centuries move forward, technology is advancing is taking a big hike on the usage board. One of the subsidiaries of technology most commonly known is social media. Social media has been moving up the scale of usage for the last ten years. There have been many social media apps, or platforms for the past years. There was for example: hi5, Myspace, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and so on because there are many more. One of the most recent platform of Social media is Snapchat. Snapchat allows people to share pictures, videos, and messages

In today’s world, the spread of fake news on the Internet, specifically Facebook, Google, and Twitter, is a reoccurring issue that people are struggling to put an end to. It is questionable whether social media is deliberately posting false information, which is what a majority of people believe. In contrast, some are under the impression that is it not social media itself, but the people using it who are spreading false stories: more specifically, Jennifer Forestal, Menaka Philips, and S. Shyam Sundar. Forestal, an assistant professor of political science at Stockton University, and Philips, a professor of practice in political science at Tulane University, address this issue in their article from the Washington Post, “People Blame Facebook for Fake News and Partisan Bile. They’re Wrong.” They specifically discuss how invalid news has been an issue ever since technology enhanced communication, but that social media only makes the spread of it quicker and more noticeable. Forestal and Philips’ article focuses primarily on how social media does not help stop fake news, but it is not the cause (Forestal and Philips 1). On the other hand, Sundar, who testifies as a technology major, has much more reasonable arguments in his academic article “Social Media Users Must Start Checking Online News Sources,” stating that fake reports will continue to be an issue until news sources gain back their credibility and media users begin to strictly check their sources (Sundar 1). Although

As defined by Merriam Webster, media is the system and organizations of communication through which information is spread to a large number of people ("Media." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2017). To attain this reach, media is no longer simply the television, radio, newspaper or a magazine, but rather these things plus the internet. The inception of the internet created the phenomena, social media, which 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) (Social media. (n.d.). Retrieved November 13, 2017, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social media).

Social media is a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good purposes or not so good purposes. Depending on how it is used social media like Facebook, Twitter, Etc. can be a great asset to modern democracy, but unfortunately it can also be a great threat to modern democracy. Social media can give a voice to the voiceless, raise money for charity, spread a revolution, and diversify the news you see if you use it right. Social media could also be used to spread fake news or biased news if people don’t take the time to double check facts before sharing. This can have far reaching effects, like ruining someone’s career, or influencing someone’s decision on which candidate they may vote for in the upcoming election. Social media, like any tool, can be used in a variety of ways, some of which can have far reaching impacts, both good and bad depending on how it is used.

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.

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 is absolutely useful tool for communication, there’s no doubt about that, but just like with any other tool, there are ways to misuse the medium. Social media’s strength and weakness lie within its popularity. With millions of user’s, some of which grew up using social media, there are going to be people who use it to their advantage, or at least try to. In the New York Times article, “Quit Social Media. Your career May Depend On It.” by Cal Newport, an idea is presented that using social media at all can potentially kill you future career.

What happened to the days when talking to someone was either face to face, or on the telephone? Today, children and teens hardly ever speak to people face to face, even when in a public setting with people that they know. This is not only present in teens, but with most age groups. In today's world, instead of talking to someone face to face, social media has come along making face to face communication less common. At the same time, social media makes it possible for people who live in different countries, such as family, able to communicate with one another anytime."Social media is a great way to connect with my friends and family back home in Florida," State U. freshman Rob Dole said.

Our communities have progressed from the way information is learned and processed and also the different ways they use networking. They have learned new ways to communicate with one another. They created a virtual world for ourselves to feel more connected to one another than ever. Social media has open new doors for us with it promoting new opportunities for us. It can be anything from finding a new job or simply finding new and old friends. Even though social media is a good thing to others, it can also be negative to some. Social media is a platform for all types of people, and you will get different kinds of personalities and posts. Social media is what you make it out to be, whether it is right or wrong that is entirely up to them, so it is how and when you use it.

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