Name: MILES WALTER S.
PELAEZ Section: 11-HUMSS
Subject: EAPP
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
A social media is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social
relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities,
backgrounds or real-life connections. The impact of social networks on young people is
significant. It is becoming increasingly clear that social networks have become part of people’s
lives.
Social media can be incredibly addictive. We all know what it feels like to tell ourselves
we’ll only check our notifications, and before we know it, we’ve been mindlessly scrolling for
hours. Using devices can have an especially detrimental effect if done near bedtime as the blue
light emanating from our devices tricks our bodies into thinking it’s still daylight outside, which
upsets our natural rhythms. We also blink less when looking at devices, which, in combination
with blue light, lead to eye fatigue and strain.
Negative Effects of social media on Health
Incorrect self-diagnosis
Potential breach of privacy
Negative Effect of social media on Business
In business, social media isn't totally hazard free in light of the fact that a significant
number of the fans and supporters are allowed to post their feeling on a specific association; the
negative remark can lead the association to disappointment.
Negative customer reviews are harmful.
Highly time consuming.
The web is crowded with more and more content.
A mistake made on social media is hard to rectify.
Many of the substantial association have succumbed to the programmers.
The wrong online brand system can fate an organization, and put at a tremendous viral
social drawback.
Getting included with social media is extremely time consuming. As an association you
ought to appoint a man to dependably support your pages and profile with noteworthy substance.
Most organizations experience issues measuring the consequences of web-based social
networking promoting.
Negative effect of social media on Education
Reduced learning and research capabilities. Students are depending more on the information
reachable easily on these social networking sites and the web. This reduces their learning
and research capabilities.
Reduction in real human contact. The additional time the students spend on these online
networking destinations, the less time they will go through associating face to face with
others. This decreases their relational abilities. They won't have the capacity to convey and
mingle adequately face to face with others. The businesses are getting increasingly
unsatisfied with the relational abilities of the new graduates because of this reason.[1] The
compelling relational abilities are critical to achievement in reality.
Reduces command over language use age and creative writing skills Students generally
utilize slang words or abbreviated types of words on long range interpersonal
communication locales. They begin depending on the PC language structure and spelling
check highlights. This decreases their charge over the dialect and their experimental writing
abilities.
Time wastage Students, while seeking and concentrate on the web, get pulled in to utilizing
online networking locales and once in a while they overlook why they are using internet.
Sometimes students are not able to deliver their work in the specified time frame as their
time wastes.
Low grades Students get low evaluations in school because of absence of the coveted data
and composing abilities.
Loss of motivation in students’ The student’s motivational level lessens because of the
utilization of these long-range interpersonal communication locales. They depend on the
virtual condition as opposed to increasing reasonable learning from this present reality.
Effect on health the unnecessary use of these sites has an effect on the mental as well as
physical health. Students do not take their meals on time and take proper rest. The abuse of
these destinations once a day has many adverse impacts on the physical and psychological
wellness of students making them lazy and unmotivated to make contact with the general
population face to face. The guardians should check and adjust on their kids when they
utilize the web. They ought to be suspicious whether they are utilizing it for fitting time
period or not.[2] The companions and educators ought to likewise enable understudies to
make them mindful of the negative impacts and clarify what they are losing in reality by
adhering to these long-range interpersonal communication locales.
Negative Effect of social media on Society
Cyber Harassing – According to a report distributed by PewCenter.org the greater part of the
youngsters has progressed toward becoming casualties of the digital bulling over the past.
Since anyone can make a phony record and do anything without being tailed, it has ended up
being exceptionally straightforward for anyone to spook on the Internet. Dangers, terrorizing
messages and bits of gossip can be sent to the majority to make inconvenience and uproar in
the general public.
Hacking – Personal information and security can be hacked and shared on the Internet.[5]
Some twitter and Facebook accounts have been hacked in the past and the programmer had
posted materials that have influenced the person's lives.
Addiction – The addictive piece of the online networking is awful and can exasperate
individual lives also. It can likewise squander individual’s time that could have been used by
profitable tasks and exercises.
Fraud and Scams – Several cases are available where people have committed fraud and
scams through the online networking.
Reputation – social media can without much of a stretch destroy somebody's notoriety just
by making a false story and spreading over the online networking.
It prompts fixation. Spending endless hours on the social destinations can occupy
the concentration and consideration from a specific errand. They principally depend on
innovation and the web as opposed to taking in the down to earth information and skill of
the regular day to day existence.
Kids can be extraordinarily influenced by these person-to-person communication
locales on the off chance that they are permitted to utilize them. The reason is that
occasionally individuals share photographs via web-based networking media that contains
savagery and sex, which can harm the conduct of children and youngsters.[6]
Another drawback of the web-based social networking is that the client shares
excessively data which may posture dangers to them. Indeed, even with the tight security
settings your own data may spill on the social locales. Downloading your recordings or
pictures and copying your status is a simple assignment and should be possible inside couple
of snaps.
As Youth and Teens are the builder of nation, and in this era, they are grown up as part of the
Net Generation. They can easily use the latest technology in various forms, including smart phones,
mp3 players, digital cameras, video games, iPads, electronic readers, and personal computers. Social
Media has its both positive and negative effects. This research paper is based on secondary data
collected from the online sources, different research papers and from the Google search engine. We
also used some data gathering tools (On Site Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires) for
gathering information about the usage of social media in general. In this paper we study various
social networking sites, various areas (Business and Commerce, Education, Health and medical
Education etc) in which social media is extensively used in these days with its positive and negatives
aspects and guidelines for handling the negative effects of social media on society.
OBJECTIVES
To determine why students, use to much social media.
To determine the negative effects of social media.
QUESTIONS
What are the negative effects of social media?
Why do students use to much social media?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH TIMELINE
The project is expected to be completed
Research Section Duration
1. Title 1 day
2. Introduction 1 week
3. Need for this Study 2 weeks
4. Background 2 weeks
5. Objectives 1 week
6. Research Questions and or Hypothesis 1 week
7. Research Methodology 2 weeks
8. Data analysis interpretations and discussions 1 week
