Social media is a platform to communicate and give information about the latest news by online. Social media is the place to keep our biodata, profile and social life through photo or story in there too. Social media have using by 93% people according to the HNC Researcher, which means more than half of people using a social media in their habit. Every platform must be advantages and disadvantages, that’s why we must filtering out which the bad or good impact for us.
From HNC Researchers asking 100 peoples to fill in the questionnaire. As the result, about 50% feel the advantages of using social media, 34% of it said that its help them in knowing the latest news and 16% said another good impact in our lives. From the result, we knew social media has a few advantages for helping our life or has a good impact for us. Among others, social media can help us to know the tragedy that happen lately, gives the information about ways to prevent some disaster that will happen in our daily lives, expand our knowledge from facts that shared in social media, expand our relatives from another region, facilitate us to simplify communication between our friends, and make easier to spread information about our business.
Another side, 50% feel the disadvantages of using social media, 26% of it said they personal data will spread easily, 13% said their relationship with their relatives and 11% of it said another bad impact in our lives. As the result, disadvantages of social media in our lives are our person data will spready easily through social media, strained relationship with their relatives, can access a content that not appropriate because it shows on their feed easily, and misuse our data or photo profile from the social media.
At the end, advantages and disadvantages it’s depending on us how to use the social media correctly. So, it’s must to knowing the impact because that’s the way we can know we using social media in which way and it help us to prevent social media cyber-crime too.