The Pros And Cons Of Social Media

As much as social media has managed to ruin our society, it plays a positive role for the public as well. Social media allowed people to use their networks as a form of reaching out to old friends and family across the world. With America being known as the melting pot of the world, our society has several people with family on the other side of the Earth. With social media in effect, this permits people to stay in touch with long lost loved ones and keep ties tight. Not only has it sanctioned friends and family to keep in touches but has granted people to relocate birth parents and unknown family members as well. Yes, social media has failed our society greatly but there is always a rainbow somewhere after a rainy day. Social media can play a positive role by bringing people back together.

The more we use social media, the less happy we seem to be. Many people would agree that social media leads to isolation, depression, and anxiety. Social Media impacts people in many ways; some are good, but some are very bad. Using social media to communicate is extremely convenient, unfortunately, more people are developing social anxiety because we are learning to comunicate through a screen from a young age. Also, seeing people posting about all the good in their lives can lead you to compare yourself to others. Most importantly, increased exposure of bullying through the internet contributes to high risk of depression. Generally, social media has more bad effects on our mental health than good ones.

In todays society,social media is detrimental because it causes distractions, create unnecessary drama, and it can open you up to identity theft and fraud. Social media can end up being the death of someone people and social media is no good at all it’s very bad.

Nowadays, social media is a big part of the American culture with approximately eighty-one percent of the US population using it(Edison Research). On average, people spend two hours a day on social media meaning the average American spends five years of their life on it. This in part has to do with the variety of platforms which equals more time on them. (Asano) The rise of social media began in the early 2000s with the start of Myspace and continues to grow. Today, we have various platforms including: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and YouTube amongst the most popular. These platforms provide a new way for billions of people to connect, communicate , and inform themselves amongst others at any time of day. It’s a new form of interaction where now the most social person sits on their couch, smart phone in hand, all day. People tend to say being online is toxic because of cyber bullying, hackers, and fake news; however, due to the increased access of ties between people and information, social media has begun to influence social and political change in a positive way through its power of communication.

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.

Social media negatively affects our society today as it is slowly ruining our everyday lives. Is it really worth it? It has turned in to an addiction for people of all ages. Susan Tardanico states, nearly 93% of communication today are done so through nonverbal communications. Social media has rapidly transformed our traditional way of communication and relationships, because it has done so it is very difficult to cope that our so called private world is not really private anymore. It has such a negative effect on our society from friends, to work, and even families.

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

In 1971, social media came into existence solely to serve the purpose of implementing efficient and speedy communication. The goals for social networking was made for simpler reasons such as business networking. The social network blossomed into much more, it no longer just served the purpose of communication, but as a venue for entertainment. Throughout the years, people have been oblivious to the benefits of social media but do not see how it taxes our growth. The supposed "thrills" of social media have created a lack of emotional connection, increased bullying, decreased face to face communication skills, and created a lack of privacy.

Social media is one of the most common ways for people to communicate anywhere and at any time in modern society. Some people think that it is beneficial to have in society. Although, many people are starting to see negative effects arise from the use of social media as well. These negative effects are increasing and becoming more problematic every day. The disadvantages of social media far outweigh the advantages. Social media effects everyone in society, especially teenagers by negatively impacting their lives, face-to-face interactions, and mental health.

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 is one of the most commonly used things in today’s society. From Facebook, to Twitter, to Youtube, it is where we get or information, form opinions, and connect with others. Social Media has its pros and cons, but it is changing politics in a negative way. This is shown through the aggressiveness of both the left and right, the untrustworthy info being tossed around, and the unprofessionalism of politicians. On the other hand, social media promotes youth participation in politics allows everyone to have a voice, and keeps us up to date.

The word, “Media,” can be defined as, “the main means of mass communication.” Media has been around for hundreds of years, in one form or another. With the new technology available today, media has become more of a social platform than a way to spread information. This has resulted in the emergence of social media, the communication of people by sharing and consuming information, mostly about one’s self. Social media has also sparked a debate as to whether it benefits society, or harms it (Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society 1). But, there is no doubt, social media only negatively impacts the world.

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 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).

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