In today’s contemporary world, communication via through social media has become more popular. Some see that as an amazing shift while others disagree with the notion. This essay discuss about the pros and cons of this phenomenon.
On the one hand, Firstly, thanks to rapid development of technology and internet, social media can be seen as a profession. In other words, it opens up job opportunities who are get bored of their monotonus working life and wants to be an self-employed individual. For example, Instagram if you scroll down, you will see that lots of advertisements will pop up into your screen and get your attention and most of bloggers, influencers and entrepeurners do that. Secondly, people who can adapt the usage of social media finds it very handful. Meaning, it helps you to keep in contact with a firend or a relative who are far from you or having struggle with being in touch physcially. Moreover, communication serves as the bedrock of a reltationship like getting know each other and creating powerful connection. For instance, if you are upset about your problems that you are dealing with, reaching your close friend or an family member throguh social media may feel little bit more relieved and might cheer you up.
On the other hand, social media does not look thrustworthy even though is seen as it is. Every person should pay attention while doing online shopping. The websites can rob you by using your credit card information and not providing the product that you bought. In addition to that some social media applications have some drawbacks and one of the most important one is having no regulatorty rules which might be harmful children or any person. No one wants their children end up with watching crime scenes or murderers because sometimes those kind of videos or images goes viral and they are exalted by the video editors to achieve higher views. Therefore, some of the social media platforms must have some regulations before people get harmed. For example, In Turkey, there was an application that is called Discord, there were lots of people that are suffered from blackmail, getting robbed.
In conclusion, even though the anonymity that social media has provides unkind, even nasty social interactions mostly can be seen as a crime people will continue employ it due to having of chance to make more money and keeping in touch with the others.