In this article, I would like to express my opinions on the different Impacts of Social Media which I observed and seen in this challenging world and also based on what my experienced is. Because, it is very visible to all of us that nowadays social media platforms are most commonly and widely used by every individual.
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Now, I would like to start my thoughts of this topic this way...
In this 21st century, we all knew that technologies are somehow already dominating the world. In the workplace, in different organizations and mostly to humans. We cannot deny the fact that most of us too were into the social medias. I must say, probably out of 10 there were 9 who are already engaging to this said platforms.
Everything has it's POSITIVE and NEGATIVE impacts and more so to Social Media...
By the definition of INVESTOPEDIA, social media is a computer-based technology that facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts, and information through the building of virtual networks and communities. By design, social media is Internet-based and gives users quick electronic communication of content. Content includes personal information, documents, videos, and photos. Users engage with social media via a computer, tablet, or smartphone via web-based software or applications.
Therefore, we can do everything in social media. I would like to share some of the impacts of social media based on my experienced and observations since I myself are engaging into this kind of platforms too.
We are all aware of the different kinds of social media that are commonly used nowadays. To cite some, there are Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, YouTube and etc. But Facebook were the most common and vastly used by many since according to my research it has 2.7 billion users.
Now, let's start with the positive impact of social media: (based only from my opinions and observations)
Social media allows us to communicate with different kinds of people around the world. We can easily talked to our loved ones even if they're far from us. We can have friends from outside our country if we want to just by the power of communication through social media.
Also, we can even find our meant to be through social media. Right?
Social media enables us to raise awareness for the betterment of an individual and even to the community we live in. An awareness that we help others be mindful and to knowledge on something by posting our type of awareness we want to tell to the world.
Social media also serves as an outlet for us to express our thought and feelings too in a positive way or manner.
We also can seek some emotional support through social media.
So, what I mentioned above are just some of it's positive effects to humankind that are into it. But, they said the system to be balance the positive it must be paired to a negative one.
And this goes also to social media... it has it's positive impacts but there are also lots of negative impacts to it.
To cite some negative impacts of social media: (based only from my opinions and observations)
Social medias as what it was being defined by Investopedia it is the source also of information. And through that we can get lots of fake news from social media which became as it's negative effects. These kinds of information which are fake ones definitely can brought chaos to people.
Also, social media can increased the risks of depression and loneliness because we cannot avoid some suicidal thoughts that we may read and seen on social medias which brought the increased of anxiety. Since, in social media there were lots of people posting some unnecessary posts and negative posts which are not really helping the users to be mentally and emotionally healthy. These kind of situation I must say is the risky part of engaging to social medias.
That is why, as user to the different platforms of social medias we must be mindful and responsible for what to posts and to posts because we don't know we can be one of the contributor why there were people commits suicides. Instead, we must posts awareness, a positive awareness to all and a positive thoughts that somehow will serves as motivations and inspirations to other people and to the people around us.
Let's also be aware the different netiquettes for us to be more responsible of using and engaging to a certain kind of social media.
In the end, it's always a matter of RESPONSIBILITY at all.
This is what I can say towards the negative impacts of social media.
"Be responsible and be mindful as well."
Happy reading....
-Janz
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