Essay Pros And Negatives Of Social Media

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Social media is forms of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content. It has gained worldwide growth and popularity with a marvelous speed, and has tremendously revolutionized the way people live, on both positive and negative sides. On the positive side, it provides the instant dissemination of news, unlimited communication between people and the increase of job opportunities. On the negative side, it results in paucity of direct communication, privacy concerns and cyber violence.

Social media gives their users the abilities to get immediate access to what happened in other places. For 46% of Americans, social media sites are one of the top news …show more content…

After social network platforms are invented, the communication breaks through the limitations of space. Users can simply know what their friends are doing by leaving them messages or checking what they have just posted instead of waiting for letters for months. When they are going out, there will not be any barrier to the communication between them and their acquaintance. This kind of communication mode provides a completely new experience which shortens the distance between people: The messages posted on the internet are more casual and lifelike, and they feel more real than a piece of paper with …show more content…

When users write a post, share some photos or their feeling, the information is not only received by the acquaintance of the users, but also some agencies that users do not trust. This may include operators, advertisers, marketing analysts, even the government. In 2009, there were 18.3% of information leakage through the online channel.[Statisticbrain, 2009] It is more horrifying that sometimes the private information will go to the dangerous people. Inadequacy of safety awareness of some of the internet users causes reveal of information that related to their safety. This makes them become accessible targets for criminals, and it is unimaginable that what those dangerous people. According to the police reports, there were 4,908 reports in which Facebook and Twitter were a factor.[Press Association,

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