The Pros And Cons Of Social Media

Social media has taken over the modern day world. It has helped us to communicate,

How we communication is in a liquid state and has become easier to communicate to our friends, circle of influences and the mass audiences. Social media portals like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and other sites, allow people from around the world to express their thoughts and ideas in real time and with a simple click its out there. For the most of the masses, the Internet is an amazing tool to exchange engaging dialog and express their freedom of expression in humanity.

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?").

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.

In discussion of social media being a controversial issue, it is discussed whether it brings positive or negative outcomes on our society. Some argue that it helps stay connected with friends, while others say that social media affects our ability to interact and communicate with people face to face. Additionally, it is argued that social media helps spread news all over the world instantly, cases like missing people or updates on impacting news. However, it increases cyberbullying with the help of common and successful social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.

On the other hand, opponents of social media argue that these social platforms prevent face-to-face communication, waste time, have various effects on children's brains and behavior that makes them more prone to ADHD, expose users to predators like pedophiles and burglars, and can spread false and dangerous information rapidly.

In today's world it's like we are all in a network state. Social media can play a major role in our lives through the way we portray one another. Not many people know this but many companies look through your social media before hiring you. I would want to know my employer personally before hiring them because at some point people on social media post about drug abuse and provocative images and comments. Your social media reflects off of you as of who you are as an intellectual person and not everyone on social media portrays themselves as a well spoken person. Colleges and universities are now going more indepth into looking at your resume. Why look at your resume when you are taught to only brag and talk about your positives on there when on social media you share your true thoughts and feelings. Although social media may have bad impacts on student lives there are some pros, for example for students the key to success is studying and most college students do their studying online.

Social media are applications and websites that enable users create, collaborate and share in social networking, for example, Facebook, which allows people to share their own stuff or share other people’s content. Facebook can also be used communication, marketing and networking.

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.

Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. As out-of-date business practices begin to transition from hierarchy- based structures to team-based companies, businesses are utilising social media as a communication tool with their employees and customers. Web – based networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are attracting consumer marketing companies to use these networks to reach their tailored demographics. Retail businesses upload clothing online, restaurants promote meals and media companies post music. Already social media is revolutionizing marketing by shifting dollars from purchased media advertisements to businesses building their own outlets and content. Kraft Foods, for example, is now one of the largest publishers of food-related materials. IBM is launching thought leadership communities. PepsiCo uses social networks to reach millions of social entrepreneurs in lieu of advertising at the Super Bowl. From a leadership perspective, social networking is making authentic leadership a reality and a necessity for 21st century leaders.

I think that the social media system cannot simply make humanity more peaceful and happy. I say this for a couple of reasons. Social media just makes people have a chance to insult or expose others without much punishment, people can use social media for any way they want, including on dark subject like murder, etc., and it has shrunk the world down in such a way it is a social media village now. After reading the article by Nicholas Carr, I could tell that it would do all of this for social media. I immensely agree due to him making his point; social media can corrupt people. People tend to share more exposed information onto social media a lot, so it keeps people from liking others the more they know of them.

Personas, social media, reality―it seems that the more we innovate contemporary technology, the further we diverge our two lives or personalities: “fantasy” and reality. It appears to be that since the technology have come into existence and evolved tenfold, we have maximized our control over how we portray ourselves, however, in a different world. For instance, deciding what to post on our social media or possessing the freedom of time to contemplate our actions over the Internet is the definition of control we have on the social media. On the contrary, we do not have the same amount of leverage to influence how others view us in reality. Therefore, when lingering about on the social media, we develop a desirable personality of oneself, also known as a persona.

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 how we communicate, interact, and even investigate certain people of criminal interest. Throughout the years, several social media websites has dominated the online web, each providing a unique service tailored to the individual preference, starting off with the most known social media Facebook. Facebook is a social network that most people use like a public dairy, it allows individuals to express themselves and voice their opinions with the world. Moments of anger, frustration, sadness can now be share via the interest at the press of a button, moments that were once private and limited to whom you can express your feelings with has now become global. Facebook is also use to stay in contact with friends and family who live too far to visit or too expensive to call. For example, I have relatives in Haiti, and back then before Facebook was invented the only way to communicate with family overseas was to either buy a calling card, which the time was limited on how long you can speak to a relative and can become costly if you need to make serval phone calls. The second method was to physically go there to meet them, and we all know the costs of plane tickets out of the country aren’t cheap. Facebook also provide users with the ability to promote and run their business such as online marketing, and ad advertising.

Social media can also be helpful communicating with large masses of people in a simple way. “My friend found himself in a situation where he could use hi skilled to help the movement in Egypt.” Says Ghonim(Egypt’s New Hero). Social media has helped connect people from different countries in revolutions to empower one another. For example the story of a man who used social media to tell people about taking stands in different parts of the country. Social media can be used to make people aware of problem in our society. It helps with knowledge of STDs, safety procedures,