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question social media and internet

Answer 1

No doubt social media has brought the world a lot closer. But there have been impacts, both positive and negative.

Social media provides an opportunity for people to reconnect to their old friends, make new friends with common likes etc. Such sites also provide means of speedy communication. It makes people aware of latest global and local developments. Information travels faster online than anywhere else. It also provides job opportunities for marketing professionals and finding business opportunities. Social media has also played an important role in elections ( politics) around the world. Many companies around the world are also using social media to advertise their products, interact with customers and get their feedback.

But if not careful, people may become victims of online harassment and cyber bullying. It has an impact on our privacy as well. What we share on the Internet may come back haunting us in future and affect our life in a way we would never want to. Social media also tends to hurt one's self-esteem. It increases loneliness and frustration due to inadequacies perceived by comparing themselves to their friends. It also has an impact on productivity, be it a student or an employee. Social media tends to kill a lot of our valuable time and decreases productivity. It may also be used to spread hatred or incite feeling of anti-nationalism or hate for any particular religion which may have large scale implications. Not everything we read as news on the social media is true. To increase the viewership of their page, many pages create false news causing hoax.

Social media is a boon for us, a gift to the world from the modern age. But we need to use it well and to our own benefit.