With the development of high technology, social media usage becoming more and more popular. For more people, in daily life, face-to-face communication is being replaced by the use of social media. I will give the advantages and the disadvantages of the situation in this essay.
Social networking brings many benefits to society and people. Accessing social networks can reduce face-to-face meetings, it helps for minimising diseases tranmitted through direct contact. For example, when the Covid-19 epidemic broke out, the government switched from face-to-face learning to online learning, thanks to which the government could control the epidemic. Besides, we can save time because we only need to contact via social network on the phone instead of coming to meet in person. In emergency situation, we only need to access to the internet to communicate.
Besides the advantages, the use of social media has many serious disadvantages. Because most of the time people are on social platforms, people don’t have much direct contact leading up to mental health problems such as depression, bipolar. Furthermore, obtaining and disclosing personal information can have serious consequences and data protection laws protect an individual’s right to personal privacy. Typically we can talk about losing a Facebook or Tiktok account. Social media can have a negative impact on family relationships. Children’s mentality is affected by negative contents, it leads to dometic violence, headstrong, etc.
In conclusion, interaction with others is replaced by the use of internet sites everyday life. This situation brings more disadvantages than advantages.