Social Media essay

من طرف **Wafaa Al Jerjawi** السبت مارس 10, 2018 5:52 pm

Social Media essay

Social media is a computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information and ideas between communities. Social media has grown tremendously in the last few years especially Facebook, Twitter and What’s App.
“Social media is something of a double-edged sword” As Roxanne Gay said. It has brought a lot of advantages for the societies, but it has also affected the societies in a negative way. I’ll start introducing the advantages of social media. As Daniel Goleman said “Social media expand our universe – we can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever” It becomes easy to connect with anyone regardless of the location. This allow people to share thoughts and ideas. Social media also helps people to update themselves by knowing the news and the events around the world. With the use of social media the world is open for you. You can search for jobs. Furthermore, you can promote your business. Moreover, you can share your problems with the community to get help and solutions. Thus you can make new friends.
On the other hand, social media has many disadvantages. As JR said “The more social media we have, the more we think we are connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other”. It affects badly on the relationship between people. They no longer visit or see each other. People now contact through social media only. Regarding the information we get from the social media, it can be fake. As Fabrizi Moreira said “Fake news is a big thing in the field of social media journalism. Fake news can be as simple as spreading misinformation, or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda”. No one neglects that social media wastes the individual time that could have been utilized by productive tasks and activities. The overusage of social media can also have negative impact on the health. It affects on eyes and backbones.
To conclude, what is interesting about social media is its power and impact. So we must try to use social media in a good way.