Write An Essay On Social Media Advantages And Disadvantages

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In the past few years, Social media have taken a fundamental part in every human’s life. Social media includes all the websites, applications and virtual methods that have allowed humans and organization to communicate with each other from different parts all over the world. Although many see that social media have adverse effects on our lives and progress as countries more than the beneficial effects it offers. Pete Cashmore, Mashable CEO has said “Privacy is dead, and social media hold the smoking gun”. This idea might not be totally correct. Social media has offered us, humans, many advantages that we can all benefit from in many ways as long as we treat social media wisely.

The next few paragraphs will focus on why social media have many advantages. Starting with the social media effect on our relationships and human communications, moving towards the social media as an E-marketing method and it offers many jobs as well. One of the main benefits that should not be missed about social media is the ability to conduct surveys …show more content…

About 30 or 40 years ago, it would take a person too much time and effort to send a message to another person, even if they were both in the same country. A person would also need to spend some money to send a message, which would only contain few letters and numbers without any pictures or ‘emojis’. Today, it would take any person a few seconds to send all the messages and information he or she wants to another person. In fact, social media has made it easy for any person to send hundreds of messages and different data types, including images and videos, in a very short time with just a few clicks. “Digital communication technologies are contributing to new ideas and experiences of intimacy, friendship and identity through new forms of social interaction and new techniques of public display, particularly on social network sites” (Chambers, 2013,

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