Social media: Good or Bad
Social have good effects as well as bad effects on humans, and human’s lives.
Social media is Good:
When we use social media effectively, it can have many benefits.
- Advantages of social media can include:
- A great source of general and specific information
- Very easy to keep in contact with people of similar interests
- Very easy to contact potential new friends
- It makes it simpler to get in touch with long-lost friends
- One can post interesting things about yourself and your achievements online.
- Quick and easy
- Fast access to a large and diverse population
- Not limited due to geography
- Increased criminal prosecution
- Social networking creates new social connections
- Students are doing better in school
- Social media is a source of employment
- Reduce marketing costs
- Increase sales
- Increase traffic to a website
- Increase customer engagement
- Greater and easy access to international markets
- Gives an opportunity for customer feedback
- Opportunity for market research
- Facilitates open communication, leading to enhanced information discovery and delivery
- Provides an opportunity to widen business contacts
- It is usually free
- One can gain understanding of many cultures and religions of the world
- Spreading news and bringing up new ideas
- It has a great role in helping those in need.
- It virtually keeps together the friends and family who are far away from each other.
- Easy and practical way to quickly communicate
Social media is Bad:
Social media also has negative effects on humans and human’s life.
- Additional resources may be needed to manage an online presence.
- It is immediate and needs daily monitoring
- Risk of inappropriate behavior on your site
- Risks of negative feedback, information leaks or hacking
- Lacks a personal touch; inability to connect in-person
- Lack of privacy (once posted, others have access to that information)
- Open to security issues (hacking, viruses, etc.)
- Requires constant commitment to maintain social media presence
- Social media is the root of cyber bullying.
- It easier to hurt someone without getting caught.
- Social media is also a place where it is easy to spread false information
- Social media is also a lurking place for predators.
- social media serves to drive people (often friends and family members that live together) farther away from one another because of giving too much time to social media.
- It can serve as a platform for inappropriate actions.
- Less face-to-face communication
- Opens up the possibility for hackers to commit fraud and launch spam and virus attacks.
- Takes time away from other things
- Potentially results in lost productivity
- Things inappropriate for children cannot be hidden from them
- Spending too much time on social sites is bad for health and mind
