What social media gives and what it takes?

A coin has two sides- Advantages and disadvantages of using Social media

Social Media is an unorthoditional media (nontraditional media). It creates a virtual world that can reach through the internet. Social media is a huge network, which keeps the whole world connected. This is a very good medium of communication. It exchanges information of every field in a very rapid way, which are reported.

Social media is one of the most revolutionary inventions of this century. Who does not use social media in today's time, almost all the people of the world who have knowledge of the internet, have an account in social media. Some most popular social media platforms are Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Youtube, Twitter etc. The fundamental independence of speech and expression is an important aspect of democracy. For the use of this right, social media has given the opportunity to the citizens, no one has not even imagined a decade ago.

Social media is considered a powerful tool in today's time. But as you all know that everything has a advantage and disadvantage. While social media plays a lot of positive roles but some people also misuse it. Such people try to divide people by spreading maliciousness by using social media in a wrong way.  Misleading and negative information is shared through social media, which adversely affects the public.  The magic of social media remained something that it has taken the whole world in its grip in a very short time. Especially look at the young generation situation they maybe not even imagine their life without social media. Social media has given this world amazing things, but the way people are becoming a social media addict, many challenges have also been stacked in society. Due to social media, our entire lifestyle has changed, its bad effect is visible on our lives. 

What are the advantages of social media :

●Marketing through social media :

If you have a brand and you want to do marketing, then you will not get a good platform than social media. In social media you can promote your marketing brand more easily. If you want to reach those people who you want to target for your marketing then social media can be used as a marketing tool.

Social media a best marketing tool 

●Your skills can reach to the people :

If you have some skills that you want to show to the world and want to make your name with this skill, then you can easily do it from social media platform, nowadays people can use social media platform to show their skills. If you like the talent, then people share your videos on social media and on seeing that your talent starts recognizing by almost everyone, so in this way you can use social media as a powerful tool.

●Create a community through social media :

If you want to form a community or a group but for that you have lack of people, then you can use social media, in this you will easily find the people those who want to join your community. You will get all kinds of people on social media, so if you want to form a group or community, then you can easily create this through online social media. This platform surely help you for that.

●Entertainment :

Social media is a place where people share many things such as their personal photos, videos, memes, sometimes important informations also many of them are really funny and entertaining. In free times they are very good stuffs to make us busy. Many people show their skills to make us laugh and entertain us. Today, the trailer of movies, TV programs, music albums are also being broadcast through social media.

●Helpful in education :

Social media helps students to increase their knowledge through many teaching material provided online. Students can see video and pictures through social media, check reviews and see their live processes immediately. Not only students, but also teachers can also make their lectures more interesting using these devices and teaching assistance.

●Connect everyone :

The most important thing which we can say social media provide us that it make all of us connected either some is sitting to the another corner of the world. Suppose in childhood you left a school and unfortunately you also lost your best friend and you have no contact of him, but don't worry if your friend is on social media you will surely find him.

Social media introducing a view of global village

●Stay connected with the fans on social media :

If you are a celebrity and you like to talk about being connected to your fans, then you can easily do all this by creating an account on social media, just for this you will have to create an account on social media. Fans will follow you and whatever you post photos,status,videos it will reach to your fans, by this you can give updates about yourself to your fans, you can also chat live with your fans, this is a best platform where you can stay connected with your fans.
Social media plays a positive role by which any person, institution, group and country etc. can be made economically, socially, culturally and politically prosperous. There have been many developmental works done through social media that have enriched democracy, which has increased the unity, integrity, secularism, socialist qualities of any country.

What are the disadvantages of social media:

●Threat to society from social media :

Man is a social animal, due to this sociality, man has reached where he is today. But after the arrival of social media, the worst impact on the society is that people are being cut off from the society itself. People are now so busy with their mobiles, that what is happening around them, people are no longer concerned. In a way, the social structure is getting disintegrated across the world, which is a big threat to the survival of humans. Often parents scold their children for being a social media addict and they thought that it is against their freedom but in reality, social media fills the mind with the images and creativity of others. So they should get rid off this thought that using social media is their only freedom.

Social ignorance emerging from social media 

●Social media lowered the sensitivity of people :

The result of this social isolation is that people have reduced sensitivity. When people do not feel connected to the environment around them, then naturally it will reduce sensitivity. This is happening now after the arrival of social media. The situation has reached such a point that human beings are becoming empty even from human sensations. How many such incidents we get to hear and see nowadays, where people are torturing on the road after accidents and people are engaged in making videos instead of helping the victim. Such a tendency is very dangerous for our society and the world, where the meaning of being a human being does not remain?

●The biggest medium of propaganda :

Everyone has the freedom to speak on social media. Where this thing is pleasant as well as dangerous. Because of the ill mindset, a person can take advantage of this medium incorrectly and it is right to say that they are taking the wrong advantage. In today's time, the facts are being misrepresented on social media. People who are being misled. In many riots in our country, lies spread on social media became the biggest reason. Not only this, history is being misinterpreted with the help of technology, which is having a bad effect on the young generation of the country. Along with the propaganda, social media is also being used heavily by terrorist and communal groups. Youths around the world are being made terrorists by tricking them on the pretext of social media. The most worrying thing is that governments of all over the world are not able to stop this propaganda even by wanting to.

●Social media increased the stress level in people :

Man is by nature made to live with nature. But with the advent of social media and technology, humans are becoming distant from nature. The effect of this is that humans are living machine life today, where peace and stagnation have disappeared from life. As a result, stress levels have increased in life, causing new diseases. Human being is living in frustration due to stress and this frustration sometimes comes out dangerously. Increasing incidents of suicide and firing incidents in the US are the biggest examples of this. Let us know that the result of increasing interference in our lives of social media is that we are becoming social media addict and now this habit is becoming a disease. De-addiction clinics have also been opened for treatment in many countries.

Increased stress level from social media

●Wastage of time :

Long-term use of social media is a waste of time, the youth can cause its addiction. Due to bad habits, it may be possible to lose attention in important things such as study. People are influenced by and separation from society and harm their personal life.

●Breach of privacy and Cybercrime :

Personal data loss which can cause security problems and crime such as identity and bank details theft, which can harm any person. Many hunters live in search of weak users so that they can make scams and earn benefits from them.

Social media increasing cybercrimes

●Health problems :

Excessive use of social media can affect your physical and mental health massively. Often people experience lazy, fat, irritation and itching in the eyes after its excessive use and stress etc.

Many health problems are caused by addiction of social media 

Conclusion:

There are millions of people around the world who use social media every day. However, we have also counted the advantages and disadvantages of social media it has been given a mixed mention, so the question arises whether to use social media or not?

 

There is a lot of things that are important in providing assistance, then there are some things that can harm us. On this, we say that social media is the need of modern times, so making a distance from it cannot be said at all. But to avoid its loss, we must control ourselves. Users should use their sole discretion on the use of social networking. This means that we need to limit the use of social media, so that we can avoid the pitfalls and the benefits of it.

Thank you for reading.