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Social media has advantages like connectivity, education, and information sharing, but also disadvantages like cyberbullying, hacking, and addiction. While it allows promoting businesses and noble causes, it can also enable fraud, ruin reputations, and compromise privacy and security. Excess social media use has been linked to health issues and even death in rare cases.
Social media has advantages like connectivity, education, and information sharing, but also disadvantages like cyberbullying, hacking, and addiction. While it allows promoting businesses and noble causes, it can also enable fraud, ruin reputations, and compromise privacy and security. Excess social media use has been linked to health issues and even death in rare cases.
Social media has advantages like connectivity, education, and information sharing, but also disadvantages like cyberbullying, hacking, and addiction. While it allows promoting businesses and noble causes, it can also enable fraud, ruin reputations, and compromise privacy and security. Excess social media use has been linked to health issues and even death in rare cases.
logy Harassment What is Social Media? Social media refers to websites and applications that are designed to allow people to share content quickly, efficiently, and in real-time. Social Media for Society Social media has grown tremendously in the last few years. From 2006 onwards the growth rate is unexpectedly very high. Spec ially Facebook and Twitter have grown much fas ter and captured millions of users in just a few y ears. The way technology is growing, it is obviou s that more and more people are going to grasp its benefits. It has brought a lot of advantages fo r the society. Advantages and Disadva ntages of Social Media f or Society 10 Advantages of Social Media for the S ociety 1:- Connectivity – The first and main advan tage of the social media is connectivity. Peo ple from anywhere can connect with anyone . Regardless of the location and religion. O 2:- Education – Social media has a lot of benefits for the students and teachers. It is very easy to educate fr om others who are experts and profession als via the social media. You can follow an yone to learn from him/her and enhance y our knowledge about any field. O 3:- Help – You can share your issues with the community to get help. O 4:- Information and Updates – The main advantage of the social media is that you update yourself from the latest happening s around in the world. Most of the time, Tel evision and print media these days are bia sed and does not convey the true messag e. O 5:- Promotion – Whether you have an offl ine business or online, you can promote y our business to the largest audience. This makes the businesses profitable and less expensive, because most of the expenses made over a business are for advertising and promotion. O 6:- Noble Cause – Social media can also be used for the noble causes. For exampl e, to promote a social welfare activities an d donations for the needy people. O 7:- Awareness – Social media also create awareness and innovate the way people li ve. From farmers to teachers, students to l awyers every individual of the society can benefit from the social media and its awar eness factor. O 8:- Helps Govt and Agencies Fight Crim e- It is also one of the advantages of the s ocial media that it helps Governments and Security Agencies to spy and catch crimin als to fight crime. O 9:- Improves Business Reputation – Jus t like it can ruin any business reputation, I t can also improve business sales and rep utation. Positive comments and sharing a bout a company can help them with sales and goodwill O 10:- Helps in Building Communities – S ince our world has different religions and b eliefs. Social media helps in building and p articipating in the community of own religi on and believes to discuss and learn abou t it. Similarly, people of different communiti es can connect to discuss and share relat ed stuffs. 10 Disadvantages of Social Media for the Society O 1:- Cyberbullying – According to a report pub lished by PewCenter.org most of the children have become victims of the cyberbullying over the past. Threats, intimidation messages and r umors can be sent to the masses to create dis comfort and chaos in the society. O 2: – Hacking – Personal data and privacy can easi ly be hacked and shared on the Internet. Which ca n make financial losses and loss to personal life. S imilarly, identity theft is another issue that can give financial losses to anyone by hacking their person al accounts. Several personal twitter and Faceboo k accounts have been hacked in the past and the hacker had posted materials that have affected the individuals personal lives. O 3:- Addiction – The addictive part of the s ocial media is very bad and can disturb pe rsonal lives as well. The teenagers are the most affected by the addiction of the socia l media. They get involved very extensivel y and are eventually cut off from the societ y. O 4:- Fraud and Scams – Several example s are available where individuals have sca mmed and commit fraud through the socia l media. O Chain Letters You’ve likely seen this one before -- the dreaded chai n letter has returned. It may appear in the form of, "R etweet this and Bill Gates will donate $5 million to ch arity!" But hold on, let’s think about this. Bill Gates alr eady does a lot for charity. Why would he wait for so mething like this to take action? Answer: He wouldn’t. Both the cause and claim are fake. O Cash Grabs
Picture this: You just received an urgent request from
one of your real friends who "lost his wallet on vacati on and needs some cash to get home." So, being the helpful person you are, you send some money right a way, per his instructions. But there’s a problem: Your friend never sent this request. In fact, he isn’t even a ware of it. His malware-infected computer grabbed al l of his contacts and forwarded the bogus email to ev eryone, waiting to see who would bite. O 5:- Security Issues – Now a day’s securit y agencies have access to people person al accounts. Which makes the privacy alm ost compromised. O 6:- Reputation – Social media can easily ruin someone’s reputation just by creating a false story and spreading across the soc ial media. Similarly businesses can also s uffer losses due to bad reputation being c onveyed over the social media. O 7:- Cheating and Relationship Issues – Most of the people have used the social m edia platform to propose and marry each other. However, after some time they turn to be wrong in their decision and part way s. O 8:- Health Issues – The excess usage of social media can also have a negative imp act on the health. Since exercise is the ke y to lose weight, most of the people get la zy because of the excessive use of social networking sites. O 9:- Social Media causes death – Not just by using it, but by following the stunts and other crazy stuffs that are shared on the in ternet. For example bikers doing the unne cessary stunts, people doing the jump ove r the trains and other life threatening stuffs . O 10:- Glamorizes Drugs and Alcohol – O ne of the disadvantages of the social medi a is that people start to follow others who are wealthy or drug addicted and share th eir views and videos on the web.