Some people contend that social media threatens people’s lives while others postulate that social media merits overcome its demerits. From my perspective, the benefits of social media are comprised of connection and learning.
In recent years, social media has been threating people’s lives, particularly employees who work in advertising and cinema. Whether they are actors, actresses, movie makers, or advertisement makers, they blackmailed consistently by hackers, who spread rumors to collect money. Studies have shown that social media impacts negatively by wasting time on teenagers and young adults; besides, it has been becoming a crisis for many celebrities and their professional lives were destroyed by fake news and rumors. Some actors claimed that: “if we had not social media, we would save our professional lives”.
Despite the drawbacks of social media, it has merits, such as ease of connection in the world which has been becoming a small village, and being on the scope as well. Moreover, there are several applications of social media, and every day more and more. Some of these platforms are: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Quora. Additionally, YouTube is always used for learning, Individuals educate themselves by learning videos “Self-learning”. For instance, one of the prominent international schools experimented with a scientific study by applying it to their students. Students spent around a week studying three topics about the science course and then, they would discuss what they have learned with their teachers. Suddenly, the experience achieved high success, which enhanced two concepts independence and searching.
In conclusion, the advantages of social media outweight disadvantages. These values both ease connection among countries in the world, and foster the self-learning concept.