Social Media

Social media is a computer-based technology that encourages the sharing of thoughts, information, conversations through the building of vital networks and communities. Social media helps us in many aspects. Some most Famous internet based life applications are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so forth.

Social media is an extremely enormous and more extensive stage with various like blogs, businesses, forums, microblogs, photo and video sharing, social gaming, etc. It has affected our youth so much that it has become some portion of our everyday lives. The basic and primary objective of social media was to bring people together. Everything in this universe has its upsides and downsides and today’s article is on social media’s pros and cons.

Pros

• Make friends, connect with old friends. People are now connected like never before.
• Making an impact on people with your thoughts and reviews.
• Getting in touch with companies and getting jobs through professional networking sites like LinkedIn.
• Creates online business.
• Fun and satisfaction.
• It has become a major stage for research.
• It can develop a brands’ picture.
• Stays up with the latest about world happenings.

Cons

• Making people feel bad, by sharing or saying something against a community or a particular person.
• Cyberbullying.
• Spreads gossipy tidbits and phony news.
• Depletes a great deal of time.
• Data can be taken and utilised improperly.
• Lessens physical collaboration among adolescents.
• it is hard to communicate sentiments through writings and emoticons.
• It can demolish a brand’s picture in only a couple of moments.

Keeping a long story short social media is a blessing for those who use it properly and a curse for those who don’t.