Social Media has become a key player in our lives nowadays. In 2004, the world witnessed the launching of Facebook, although it wasn’t the first social media platform but it succeeded to propagate among the youth. At the beginning, it had a limited effect in our lives. It was just a platform to see other photos and updates. By time, there were severe changes regarding the Facebook and also regarding the launching of several others platforms.
Studies state that people from 15 to 24 years consume minimum 2 hours daily on social media. What is about these 2 hours? How these 2 hours will affect humans’ routine? Would it affect positively or negatively? This will be clarified in the below essay.
Regarding the positive impact, Social media succeeded to keep in touch friends and families even though they are not located in the same country. Sharing photos, videos and files has become more easier and faster. Sharing knowledge and experience is also a key benefit from the social media. Social media encouraged many people to start their online business as marketing and reaching the target audience is now much easier than before.
On the other side, Social media can lead to disasters due to the vast available data without any kind of validity and credibility. Number of internet crimes has increased significantly and now many organizations are working to limit it and to aware people about it.
As a conclusion, social media has its advantages and disadvantages; we have to get benefit from its advantages and to be careful about its disadvantages.