The Effect Of Social Media On Kuwait Society

Information technology decreases the distances between people causing a lot of changes and huge impact on modern societies, some of these changes have advantages and disadvantages depending on how people implement and use this technology in useful, ethical way without any harm to themselves and to their societies, nowadays the thoughts, ideas forms and take shape in quickly way by using portable devices connecting people and linked them with the events on all over the world, live, and make them close to the truth by obvious and clear image for the occasions around them.

British society and Kuwait societies share a lot of similarities and have slight differences in term of the use of mobile, smart phones and the use of social media. These differences

The social media establish cyber communities let individual to participate their thoughts, idea, in confidentiality and far away from cultural bonds, taboos with verities of sites and platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, linedlin, Whatsapp, and others. (Hinton & Hjorth, 2013) describe the social media “... user oriented, providing a space for people to make things, share things, communicate and connect to each other, allowing for a wide range of empowering practices from activism and to creative production”. Comparing between British and Kuwait lead to the need and cause of using social media. Unlike British, Kuwait society in the last period suffers from restrictions on the freedom of expression, therefore the majority of the opposition found a safe place to discuss and participate their opinion on the platforms of social media. In term of the most interesting platforms or social websites, both the user in British and Kuwait prefer the Facebook. According to report referring to Social and Media Network UK in May 2014, show that 72% of user prefer Facebook than other platforms in British (Mentil, 2015). “While people may also enjoy and use many other networks, Facebook is seen by many as a ‘necessity’ ”(ibid). Also in Kuwait more than 111.480 active user on Facebook, according to Arab social media report (2012), and this number is interesting if we compare it with the population of Kuwait citizen around 1 million. However, The social media have bad impacts on societies. Both British and Kuwait suffer from the consequences of the use of it. In Kuwait, a question raises frequently about the most reason of divorce? The answer was clear and reliable “Social media, smart-phones trigger cyber-cheating”(Kuwait Times, 2013). In British like Kuwait, Schanker (2015) noted that, latest survey of 2000 married in Bristol show one of seven married