Essay on the rise of social media in fiji
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The Effect of Social Media
Social Media Effect
March 1, 2019
The term of social media relates to multiple online platforms that enable fast digital communication, information posting and sharing and easy creation of interest groups. First created as a private tool of connection for university alumni, Facebook has become both the most successful social network and the icon of social media as such. After its success similar platforms with different specializations sprang up one by one, filling the niches and offering more and more online activities. Today it is hard to imagine our life without newsfeeds, likes, shares and image posting, but isn’t the price we pay for this convenience too high? We will explore how social media affects the lives of different strata of people and what their greatest advantages and disadvantages are.
Children, teenagers and adults are all affected differently by online platforms and activities, and these effects are usually not that positive. To begin with, for children social platforms and gadgets have replaced play time and communication with parents. Instead of reading books, playing outside with peers or learning some craft young kids are already absorbed into newsfeeds and likes stuff. It reduces their ability to communicate with others in real life, to engage in meaningful activities and to invent their own play. Besides, they often cannot protect their sensitive information properly and can disclose enough data to put themselves into danger, especially when talking to strangers on the web. Thus social media harm their learning capacities and at the same time to their physical security.