Is Social Media Good or Bad?
Do you think
social media is good or bad? So, why can it be good or be bad? Nowadays, social
media is growing rapidly while the world is increasing to be more modern. Social
media is a website that allows social interaction. There are three kinds of
social media. They are social news, social networking, and social photo and
video sharing. Social news is a website which is used to interact by tagging
and searching through website bookmarked by other people such as detik.com,
kapan-lagi.com, viva-news.com, and others. Social networking is a website which
allows users to easily meet and communicate with others such as Facebook,
Twitter, Path, etc. Social photo and video sharing is a website which is used
to interact by sharing photos or videos and commenting through user’s photos
and videos such as in Youtube, Instagram, Fickr, and etc. These three kinds of
social media have changed human behavior in many ways. Today it can be used as
a very helpful tool in changing a person’s life, but at the same time it also
can be a negative impact for that person.
For
its advantages, social media has some positive effects on the society. Nowadays
many people often use social media as their daily needs. The first, social
media is a kind of a virtual bridge that connects one place to other places, so
it allows people to contact with other people even they are from different
country. For example Facebook, the most popular social network, it allows
people to communicate with each other, comment on people’s statuses, join
different organizations, play games, and even send an instant message. This
site also allows for millions of people to keep in touch with each other, and
ultimately becomes a source of entertainment. The second, using social media
can help people who have difficulty socializing in person. Sites like Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, and others social networking or photo and video sharing, allow
people who have difficulty communicating with society to feel more comfortable
interacting via those social medias. The third, through getting up-to-date
issues via social news websites, can also be a huge help to a lot of people,
for instance someone who wants to update stock exchange news can get the news
by searching it on social news sites such as in Viva-news.com,
detikfinance.com, and others.
On
the other hand, social media also has negative effects for human behaviors.
Caused most people depend their needs on social media, it affects that they
will spend a lot of time to the social media. At the first, many people usually
spend sleepless nights on social media. The disruption of sleep has had adverse
effect on the people. It has led to cases of insomnia, mood swings, less
attention at school and increased obesity. The second effect can be detected
from some people who rarely communicate with their society but they more often
communicate through social media. This phenomenon indicates that those people
are more comfortable communicate with social media than they communicate with
other people. If that kind of interaction is kept regularly, it will hinder the
people to interact with their society. Moreover, some researchers have found
that the middle school, high school and college students who use Facebook at
least once during 15 minutes period get lower grades, especially at their
communication skill.
Well,
because everything has its own pro and contra, so does social media. Most
people admire it as a revolutionary invention and some seem to take it as a
negative impact of society. Clearly, social media can’t be claimed as a
negative impact or even be a positive impact. It stands somewhere and between.
But it depends on an individual’s perspective on how s/he perceives it. While
there are some negative impacts associated with social media, the positive
impacts in communication all around the globe has made the world becomes
stronger and a better place to live.
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