Impact of social media: Advantages And Disadvantages

The term Social media sounds like an attractive word for these ongoing generations. It is not just a tiny bunch of applications for just getting viral or stuff. It is like a vast world view, something like 'Newspaper 2.0'. It may sound weird for a moment, but it is not. However, as I said, there are many angles to view this hot topic. Depending on the content one reads or digs into, they may have silent and various impacts all over their life, from one's behavior to their attitude. It may affect one in a way that he/she may completely change into a person they would never imagine, or may bring change into a huge population's life by spreading their wings of knowledge and awareness.

Nevertheless, it is always up to what one chooses. Let me clarify if you are thinking about what exactly comes under this social media tag. , social media is a virtual life that includes all the applications and websites where people interact, share and express their part of life. For instance, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Twitter, Tinder, and so forth.

Let us make a battle of all the 'impacts of social media we could recollect in both positive and negative ways, starting with the pros.

The Good impacts of Social media:

• As we see, social media has an immense crowd with varied interests and opinions; one can freely express himself without bias.

• People who may not show the guts to talk face to face but have sweet hidden talents can approach everyone much more quickly.

• Thinking of the political part of life, it has become convenient and accessible to reach a vast group of people and spread awareness and knowledge. For example, social networking has been a plus point for our current honorable prime minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji.

• It is easy to gather information by just approaching the internet and getting the experiences and opinions of the experts on any required thing.

• People depend entirely on this social media, including families, friends, and a few sweet far relationships.

• You discover new people based on your interests, meet, and connect.

• From when marketing was done offline by traveling far distances to today, i.e., a complete online interface for such financial marketing, .things have become helpful to everyone.

• As social media increases, it parallelly increases a massive place for new work opportunities and can be seen as one of the most developing parts of this lifestyle.

• Managing different sides of one's life, such as professional and personal life, has become comfortable from platforms like LinkedIn to Instagram.

Apart from these all plus points, everything has the opposite effect on our environment. let us see a few side effects of this.

Side Effects of Social media:

• As this virtual life increases, we start finding harassment on different sites and platforms.

• A widespread side effect of it can be seen in stress, eye problems, mental issues, and many more.

• People who do not approach one-on-one gradually decrease their confidence which degrades them. It can be mainly observed in youngsters.

• We see pickpocketing in real life; similarly, we can observe cyber crimes happening as the use extends in cases of online financial management.

• It has increased plagiarism, reducing the originality and creativity among teens and emerging youths.

Conclusion:

Although there are some negative impacts, online life can be considered excellent support and upgradation to society. In any case, genuine advances ought to be taken to alleviate the negative impacts of internet-based life, like fake news, trolling, and so forth.

Online security cells and artificial intelligence together can take care of these issues. Along with that, moral qualities should be understood in educational institutes.

Mindful programs help us to think about the tremendous and awful sides of web-based social networking.