The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Social Media In South Africa

Introduction

One has been assigned to investigate about the impact of social media in South Africa. Generally, Social media is a phrase that we throw around a lot these days, often to describe what we post on sites and apps like Facebook, Snap chat, Tweeter, Instagram, others and so on. According to BABAN social media are websites and applications that enables users to create and share contents or to participate in social networking. The assignment is about to cover the definition of social media, history of social media, types of social medial, the advantages and disadvantages of social media, how is it impacting on the South African businesses and the recommendation on South African businesses to employ social media implementation.

Definition of social media

Social media is the most critical word that is always on everyone’s mouth. Generally, we consider social media as these applications that allows people to communicate through. Formally, BABA defines social media as websites and applications that allows users to sign up and share contents and to communicate over. Social medial allows users to communicate and keep their relationship with their friends, families, colleagues and to keep their professional pages.

History of social media According to History of Social media, the first social media site that everyone can agree actually was social media was a website called Six Degrees. It was named after the ‘six degrees of separation’ theory and lasted from 1997 to 2001.