Most of the experts believe that social media is creating a negative impression in society. There are lots of reasons for creating such a mess within the society such as cyber bullying, increase in cyber crimes and other reasons. However there are some useful factors that social media can bring in our day to day life.
In expansion to the reasons we discussed above such as cyber crimes , cyber bullying has resulted in increase in number of suicide rates among young individual. Recent studies show that social media is creating an inferiority complex among the users that when seeing positive posts of others, creates a feeling why l am not able to enjoy like others. Moreover, an increase in cyber crimes are a serious concern today such as phishing, identity theft, child pornography and malware attacks.
Furthermore, now it becomes an addiction among children as well as adults towards social media as it is very difficult for them to stop checking their social media posts, updating stories and status. This leads to reducing their productive time, time with their families, face to face communication and their concentration. In addition to this, if we check our nearby ground, rivers, ponds, and lakes all become vacant, as we can see nobody is ready to build a connection with each other because they do not have time to spend.
However, as we all know a coin has two sides, similarly social media also has two sides, that is it also has a positive side. As we go in detail, it can be used as a medium to advertise, sell and purchase various varieties of products. For small retailers they can market their products at cheap rates. In addition to that Social media also helps to communicate with their loved ones, families through both video call and voice call. Along with this companies can have their official meetings through various platforms such as zoom, gochat, google meet and many others.
In conclusion social media should be used carefully as it can harm day to day life of people. However it has also put forward some positive facts that can help lots of people to improve their standard of living. So it is upto us how we deal with social media that is whether to bring light or dark to your life.