Social Media Benefits To Society

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Imagine one day you are sitting in Language Arts class and you see everyone looking at their phones. Everyone is passing around the phone talking about what they are reading. You ask your friend what they are looking at. She tells you that it is about your sister. You quickly start asking people if you can see the phone. No one hears you because the room is so loud. As soon as school is over you rush home to go get your phone. You quickly see that the paragraph you posted about your sister being in the hospital got over 2 million likes. Little did you know that while you were at school people have been raising money to help her out. Social Media is beneficial for a society. Social Media is beneficial for a society because people all over the world can connect through it, you can find comfort in it, and it can benefit the community. …show more content…

Social Media helps to benefit a community in many ways. It can benefit a community by letting people know important information that they have not yet heard. According to David Gurling "Does social media have the power to change the world?" Youtube.com June 5 2014 he states, "In Jamaica health workers distribute information about HIV via in social media." This means that across the world health workers are using Instagram to get better information about HIV's for their patients. If, we did not have social networks to put out information like this it would not be able to help patients. Another thing according to David Gurling "Does social media have the power to change the world?" Youtube.com June 5 2014 it states, "Citizens in Mexico are using social media to report information about drug wars and cartels." This is saying that people in Mexico are sending information to people in the United States, saying what is going on about drug wars. If, people did not have social networks to send out information then we would have no idea what is going on in

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