Actually, living in the contemporary world a great number of people have been using social networks to communicate and be aware of what the latestnews. I agree that that there are more positive sides of social media than negative ones.
To begin with, while enumerating the pluses of getting in touch through them one cannot help mentioning the most obvious, to be exact reaching relatives living in a foreign country, making video calls and viewing incredible moments online. Moreover, it is worth stressing that subscribing friends and relatives in social media strengthen the relationships due to the possibility to react on stories and leave comments under the photos. Additionally, it needs to be emphasized that acquittance from childhood can be easily found through online that gives a chance to find old friends. For example, my father was found by his long term friend from the army in Facebook that he had not seen for ages before and finally they were able to see each other in real life owing Meta.
Furthermore, one should draw attention to the fact that news have been spread successfully and quickly due to online connection. There is no doubt that it has been considered to be one of the best ways of making people know about events occurring in almost all places around the world in comparison with TV broadcasting. Obviously, owning an account on well-known sites makes everyone a reporter of up to date events where one is provided with an opportunity to share the reality through filming and photographing. As a clear example, flood in Kazakhstan has been shocked the he world community as online viewers have seen the real natural disaster destroyed thousands of households.
Nevertheless, it needs to be noticed that one of the main disadvantages can be named is wasting of time due to uncontrolled scrolling the news and updates from users. Having seen capturing reels and photos a person becoming addicted to see something new again and again and this takes hours that are wasted. Consequently, the person is looking forward to seeing fresh data all the time, in order to escape useless scrolling of the app one should limit the amount of time spent online.
To crown it all, inventions that allow people keep in contact with their lovely ones have ameliorated relative connections and the way news are broadcast. If the attention paid to social media was more under control, there would be less drawbacks.