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Impact of Social Media on Youth
ADITYA RAJ GOSWAMI
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Effect social media on society
Introduction
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This topic we will discuss the social media and its effect on the society, in
the topic we will alsoargue that social media has positive and negative effects
on the people. In this assignment wewill also talk about if the advantages
outweigh disadvantages or Visé versa.First of all, let’s define what’s is social
media? It’s a web-based platform which helps us to shareideas, thoughts and
information among the communities. It gives us quick
electroniccommunication of contents like; news, images, videos and etc.Kaplan
(2010) as cited in Ghulam et al., 2014 described in his study that social media
is a setof internet-based application that constructs on the ideological and
technological foundation ofwed and that permit the design and exchange of
user generated content.When it is used consciously, it is a beneficial social
networking site for young people. Forexample, according to, Faudree (2009),
Facebook has five basic advantages: 1) Facebook is asocial networking site
which students use frequently when they are bored, (2) Facebook is a
wayof communication with others members, (3) Facebook is an environment in
which studentsfeel themselves relaxed, (4) Facebook provides students to
support each other and learntheir personal identities, (5) Facebook is a
public sphere which can be observed by schooladministrations and other
members.On the other hand, when children and teens spend more time
on social media, they maydevelop
many problems.
For example Dube (2016) study result
indicates, prolonged andexcessive use of social media presents dangers i.e. suff
ering from mental health issues.
Davila et al (2009)
also identified social media behavior and posts can be useful identifiers or pre
dictors of depression
General objective
The general purpose of this review is to provide detail information about the
impact of socialmedia on society
Specific objectives
• To analyze the influence of social media on society.• To elucidate the positive
and dark sides of social media.• To recommend some measure for proper use
of social media in right direction to inform the people.
The impact of social media on our society
Social media is a powerful revolution that has changed our lives all round; it
has changed theway that we socialise, conduct our businesses, engage in
political affairs, build professions andset job recruitments. (Susan Saurel, writer
at EssayOnTime)
1.Socialisation
With the use of platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, how people
socialise has beengreatly revolutionised. It has made it easy to connect to our
family members, friends andrelatives on a real-time basis.With social media,
people can share pictures and videos and communicate with their close
ones.This has strengthened relationships and it is bringing families together in
a way that was not possible in the past.
2.Business
Businesses have greatly been impacted by social media — from marketing to
interacting withcustomers on a timely basis. A business that has embraced the
use of social has a definite edgeover its competitors.
3.Politics
Social media has impacted politics in manyways. Nowadays, it is where most
people get theirnews; in some cases, this is before the media houses do. It is
the medium that gives the easiestaccess to political and other news.
4. Job hiring
Social media has impacted job recruitments significantly. The majority of
companies make theirhiring decisions based on one's social portfolio.
Recruiters also use online networks to post jobvacancies through which they
get their ideal candidates.
5. Education
Many professions and skills have been built and learned through social media.
There is a massiveincrease in online learning where one can easily learn a skill
and build a strong profession around
6.Connectivity
– The first and main advantage of the social media is connectivity. People
fromanywhere can connect with anyone. Regardless of the location and
religion. The beauty of socialmedia is that you can connect with anyone to
learn and share your thoughts. .
Negative impact social media on our society
1. Reduces Face-to-Face Interaction
When you are on social media more often, not only do you spend less quality
time with peoplewho are physically present in your life, but they will quickly
get annoyed when you’remindlessly scrolling through social media platforms
instead of paying attention to them.
2. Can Lead to a Higher Risk of Depression
According to recent studies, the more people use social media, the more
negative feelings theyexperience, including depression. This could be
particularly harmful to people who have been previously diagnosed with
anxiety and depression.
3. Loss of Sleep
The light emitted from your various screens tricks your mind into thinking it’s
not time for youto sleep, which can cause one of the most common negative
effects of social media:
4. Lack of Privacy
Between social media websites saving (and selling) your personal data and the
whole NSA messinvolving unsolicited government access of personal
dataPosted on November 28, 2016 byKeremImpact social media on culture
from other countries. On the other hand, social media has influenced our
culture in negative waysA.People can share whatever they want to on social
media and some of them might beinappropriate pictures.B it reduces physical
activities People prefer to sit all day in front of computers and chat.c.The ugly
part of social media is that there is tons of unnecessary information shared
by people
Hacking
– Personal data and privacy can easily be hacked and shared on the Internet.
Which canmake financial losses and loss to personal life.. By
Waseem Akram
The effects of social media on society in terms of some points including;
Education
Health
Business
workplace
Family relationship .
Culture
The positive effect social media or advantage1.Education
Education
: Social Networking has become an important part of a student’s social life. It is
nowconsidered as a learning platform which helps in improving student
engagement and capabilities,social media has a lot of benefits for the students
and teachers. It is very easy to educate fromothers who are experts and
professionals via the social media. You can follow anyone to learnfrom him/her
and enhance your knowledge about any field. Regardless of your location
andeducation background you can educate yourself, without paying for it.
A.Encourage Online Learning
: the students get encouraged and motivated to learn.Educational videos on
YouTube, the use of YouTube to watch educational videos, easy access toe-
books, online notes, learning via video calling are some of the major aspects
which contributeto educational development
B. Social media helps in enhancing creative skills:
in children by allowing them to learn andlater execute the same by doing it
themselves
. (Blog/ by seosajjad)
C.socializing
: An important part of growing up, is to socialize and make friends. Why
thisimportant? Because, it allows children to exchange ideas and learn new
things.
D.
Enhan
ces Creative Element
: social media helps in enhancing creative skills in children byallowing them to
learn and later execute the same by doing it themselves
E.Sharing knowledge
: It provides an easy and an effective way in which students canshare
knowledge. Students can simply access the information, study, transform
(if needed)and share. Hence, the flow of knowledge becomes smooth.
F..Learning from various sources
2.Health
Social media provide Health Care Professionals with
tools to share information and to promote health behaviors, to engage with
the public, and to educate and interact with patients,students, and
colleagues.A.Sharing of Doctors prescriptions to friends, and
relativesB.Consulting Doctors online anywhere and anytime.C.Sharing
Suggestions among friends, relatives and colleagues about various diseases
andits symptoms.D.Access to information in developing regions. 5.Support
and mutual accountability ononlineE.health forums.F.Support for health-
related causes.G.Helping health services to prioritize critical
cases.H.Increased accountability to consumers.I.More data available to health
researchers. www/research-gate .com
3.BUSINESS
Social Media is the new buzz sector in promoting that incorporate
business ,associations and brands which make news, influence companions, to
make relations and make groups.A.with the use of Social Media, It is better to
understand the customer requirements
B.social Media helps in promoting the Business all over the
worldC.Social Media provides rich customer experiences.D.With Social media
monitoring you can gain key information about your competitors.E.With the
help of social media, Sharing contents about the Business faster and
easier.F.Social networking sites helps to Amake new customers by providing
various facilities.G.It also helps to increase awareness among customers for
better understanding of products.
( AkramGdc Mendhar J&K · Department of Computer Applications)
4.WORK PLACE
A.Improves employee engagement :
Allowing employees to take short breaks for socialnetworking throughout the
day will boost mood, which will potentially increase employeeengagement. It
will strengthen their confidence and happiness and make them feel valued.
Itcan help your employees to feel happy, loyal, and satisfied, resulting in
increased productivityHaving a friend at work is a blessing, and social media
plays a significant role in forminghealthy relationships. It is the simplest way to
encourage contact between workers and helpexchange thoughts and improve
interaction at work and home.C.Workplace monitoringOnline activity, and
social media access in particular, can be electronically monitored either
inindividual instances or globally throughout the workplace. In addition, it is
also possible togather extremely detailed feedback or data in anonymised
formats to give a more generalised picture of how these workplace
transgressions may be affecting staff productivity.
5family relationships
• Reducing physical distances:
Long distance relationships are never easy. But couples or families who have to
spend time apart for long periods can still feel close to each other. They
cancommunicate and interact via social media. Even if they’re separated by
thousands of miles.
• Better understanding
: Social media profiles often act as a snapshot of a person’s personality.They
display a person’s likes, dislikes, social circle, opinions, views, and habits. This
can beconvenient. It can help new friends decide if they would like to enter
into a relationship with theother person. It helps you assess if you
are compatible with the other person.
• Memories
: The memory feature on social media allows families to relive amazing
familymoments. Pictures, videos, tags, check-ins, etc. show up every year on
the anniversary of theevent. This can help keep the nostalgia and familial love
going strong.
• Bonding
: Social media allows family members to see what each other is posting.
By rosieharman, Writer
6.Culture
Social media has been a major part of our daily lives. It totally effected
our culture in positiveand negative ways. There are so many positive impacts of
social media on our culture.
1.
Social media increased the connections between people
2.
. Social media improved creativity
3.
social improved awareness for our society by interacting with other people
4.
. Social media developed international business and marketing.
5.
Social media created an opportunity to widen your world and make new
friends
The Negative effects social media on society
Along with so many positive aspects of social media on society the same has
quite a fewnegative impacts too
1.Education
1
. Causes Distraction
: Social Media platforms are a major factor that are leading to distractionand
hindrance of mind. These days students tend to lose their focus from studying
and rather enjoy browsing on social media. All of this leads to wastage of time
without learning anythingfrom it. Most of the time, students are incapable of
submitting their work in the specified timeframe because they are more
focussed on using Social Media platforms.2.
Impact on Health
: Use of social media sites with sheer negligence can have mental as well
as physical effects on one’s health. Students do not take their meals on time,
do not take proper restand by continuously being on phone or laptop can also
have adverse effects on their eyes. Suchacts make students lazy and
unmotivated to study or even go out and meet people.3
. Reduces learning and research capability
: With the extensive use of social media, studentsthese days are depending
more on such platforms to gain information and knowledge rather thanlooking
out for the same in books, journals or notes. As it is easy to extract information
online,reading habits of students along with their learning and research
capabilities are reducing. (Blog/ by seosajjad)
4.Time wastage
Students, while seeking and concentrate on the web, get pulled in to utilizing
online networkinglocales and once in awhile they overlook why they are using
internet.
5.Low grades
Students get low evaluations in school because of absence of the coveted data
and composingabilities.
6.Loss of motivation in students
The student’s motivational level lessens because of the utilization of these long
rangeinterpersonal communication locales. They depend on the virtual conditio
n as opposed toincreasing reasonable learning from this present reality by was
eem akrem www:researchgate .com 2.
Health
Social media also hurts the health of the people. The excessive use of social
media
platforms brings different kinds of disorders to the health of people. They beco
me lazy by the excessiveuse of it in a day and night. Social media addictive
users get lazy and become fatty because theydon’t like to go outside for a walk
or do some activities and fitness games. Excessive use of social media damages
the sleeping cells in the brain which the people faced sleeping problems.Using
social media can cause depression and loneliness as well.
3.Business
a.1.Negative customer reviews are harmful. b.2.Highly time consuming.c.3The
web is crowded with more and more content.d.A mistake made on social
media is hard to rectify.e.Many of the substantial association have
succumbedf.to the programmers.g.4.The wrong online brand system can fate
an organization,
4.Work place
A.Technical risk
: When employees use office computers or devices for social media,
theyincrease the risk of viruses. If any of your equipment gets a virus, you may
need to pay a professional to remove it or hard reset the device, resulting in
lost data.
B..Decreases productivity
Too much of everything can be dangerous, and that includes social media as
well. Onaverage, people spend approximately 2 hours and 23 minutes
on social media everyday. If your employees spend even half of that time
scrolling through social mediaplatforms during work hours, it can affect their
productivity immensely.
C.Increases need for employee guidelines
:If social media is prevalent in the workplace, youmay need to implement
guidelines for usage. These rules let employees know when and
howthey’re allowed to use social media and eliminate the distractions it mayca
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D. Brings down productivity
Too much of everything is dangerous and social media is noexception. A huge
amount of time would be lost if workers are permitted to access social media in
the workplace. Spending toomuch time on social media can also divert the
mind from work toonline attractions. It will bring down productivityin no time.
By Susmita Sarma, a digital marketer at Vantage Circle
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5.Family relationships
A.Lack of Conversation:People that use social media try to avoid conversation
with their family members as they don’t consider them to be important to talk.
They do not want to sharetheir thoughts and hear the opinion of others.
B.Spending Less Time with Family :
People usually try not to spend time with their family.They instead, try to have
fun at their friends get together or parties, etc. If parents ask them to sitwith
the rest of the family members in the room and express their thoughts as well,
theyimmediately give lame excuses in order to get rid out of the situation very
gently.
C.Absent Minded in Family Issues
:It has also been observed that the people who are habitualof using social
media remain more absent-minded. If you ask them anything, they take a
longtime to come into their present state of mind and it seems quite foolish. It
also shows that theyare truly out of their senses. January 10, 2019 by Lucy
White
Conclusion:
Overall there are more advantages for using social media, however, there is
always advantagesand disadvantages for a thing. As social media is too
convenient for people, almost most of themdo not even have to”speak out” to
communicate with people. No longer, people will lost their communication
skills. The more serious problem is many people utilized the power of
socialmedia and used it to bully someone. The power of social media is also
same as the one in reallife. A little of them used social media to do things
against the law, which is a fool behavior.
To be fair and honest we need to mention that social media has its positive out
comes and has itsdrawbacks as well. As it has been relived in this article at the
end it’s people choice to either useit positive way and benefit from it social and
academic life, or fall as a victim of social media’snegative impacts. Ultimately
advantages of social media outweigh its disadvantages that bringsmore value
to the society as a whole..
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