Introduction
Social Media - A Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
Social media is a good or a bad thing? That is the most frequently asked question today. Well, there are always two sides of everything; it depends on your perspective on how you perceive it. The same goes for social media, most people admire it as a revolutionary invention and some seem to take it as a negative impact on the society.
We have complied some of the positive and negative opinions people express for social networks:
Positive Effects:
-Friends and Relations:
Social networks started as a place to connect with your friends in an easy an convenient way. Truly speaking, many of you might have found your old pals from school or college who were out of touch due to one reason or other, well I would say I have and I thank social networks for this. Social networks has provided us the opportunity to connect with people and build better relationships with friends with whom we are unable to meet personally, and let them know about our life and take input about their lives and events happening with them.
-Reducing Communication Barriers:
With social networks we are able to communicate our thoughts and perceptions over different topics with a large number of audiences, and raise our voice. The sharing feature available on the social networks makes your opinion about any topic reach huge number of people (even to those who are not on your friends list). We have the option to make groups with people who are like minded and share the related news with them and ask for their opinion or input about the topic. Simply there are a number of options available for us to communicate with others on these social networks.
-Opportunities for Businesses:
Social networks have become a crucial part of many of us. We don’t even notice this but as soon as we open our desktops or laptops to access the web, we sub-consciously open our favorite social network just to see about the updates received. Businesses have noticed the value of social networks in our life, and they are using different techniques to promote their products. There are a number of customized applications being made on the social platforms, whose main purpose is to promote the product or brand. As social marketing is cost effective and brands have a huge audience, they are shifting more towards social marketing.
Negative Effects:
-Leads to Addiction:
Many studies have shown that the extensive use of social media can actually cause addiction to the users. Throughout their day, they feel to post something on their pages or check others posts as it has become an important part of our life.
-Lead to Isolation:
Extreme usage of social media has reduced the level of human interaction. Because of social networks the interaction with other people has become effortless and people have isolated their lives behind their online identities. Face to face communication and meetings has been reduced and many of us have lost the flavor and charm to be together under one roof.
-Affecting Productivity:
Mostly businesses use social media to find and communicate with clients. But it is a great distraction to employees, who may show more interest in what their friends are posting than in their work tasks. Wired.com posted two studies which demonstrated damage to productivity caused by social networking. Nucleus Research reported that Facebook shaves 1.5% off office productivity while Morse claimed that British companies lost 2.2 billion a year to the social phenomenon. New technology products have become available that allow social networks to be blocked, but their effectiveness remains spotty.
We have mentioned a few positive and negative points of social media, but it doesn’t explain that social media is good or a bad thing. It stands somewhere in between. You will remain wary in spite of these examples that either social media is a good or bad thing for society? We would live to hear about your thoughts and opinion about the question raised… Do you think Social Networks are good or bad?
Taken From http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/social-media-good-thing-or-bad-…
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Task
Problems and Solutions in Using Social Media
Chatting too much in the Internet makes people forget everything(Monika Meitasari Astuti)The development of Technology Information is very amazing! In previous time we usually used letter for communicate with other people around the world . it took a long time and spent many cost. But after people discover an Internet, The world seems smaller and we can meet people around the world with online system. Internet is now become important thing for many people. In internet we can Browsing, Chatting, share everything, and get many information. But now there are many people who got addict with Internet. Internet make them forget everything. Forget their job, their school and their obligation activities.The survey prove that most people got addict with chatting facility in internet. It makes them forget everything. Moreover there’re many internet chatting and social network in the internet, like Yahoo Messenger, Facebook, Twitter, MSN messenger, Google Talk and many others. They provide the chatting service. Their service are very attractive and simple. That’s why people got addict with that. In chatting network we can find new friends and people in a whole world and chat with them without meet in person. Beside that, we can also get more knowledge and new information.But we can also get negative impact from that. Chatting services make people forget everything. Forget their job, their school and their obligation activities. When we got addict with chatting online service, we spent many time for online. And makes us lazy to do anything.Internet chatting service not good at all, even there’re many negative impact that we get from that. For example: We ever heard there are many girl who abducted with people that they met in Chatting and Social Network in Internet. That’s so fear!When chatting we must keep our attitude and privacy. We must be careful also with new people that we meet in internet. Because they not kind at all.So we must be careful and use Internet Chatting and Social Network wisely.Here are the tips in using Internet Chatting and Social Networking:1. Use Internet Chatting and Social Networking wisely2. Don’t forget about our job, school and obligation activities.3. Don’t use Internet Chatting and Social Networking everytime. That’s not good for our healthy. It makes us tired and its not good for our eyes.4. We must remember about our pulse. Online in a long time spent much more pulse.People shouldn't Share Their Problems In Social Network(By Sabrina Tri Andini)Sharing problems in social network really annoys to other people and embarass themselves who do it.Firstly, people who share their problems in social network really annoys to other people. In Facebook and Twitter, there are many unstable teenagers who post their problems here. Here’s an example.... “I’m so sad. Nobody cares with me. My parents never think about me. They just think about money, money, and money.” Social network is not about share the problem like this. As a user of social network, I feel like they are disturbing my vision with their status. I wanna see news from people updates, but when they use it for sharing their problems, it’s annoying.Not only annoys to other people, sharing problems in social network embarass themselves. With posting like what I show before, people think that the person who posted it has a terrible life. And it shows us that the person isn’t polite enough. It just makes us think that the person is bad. And it embarrasses her/himself.Finally, I strongly agree that people shouldn’t share their problem in social network. It’s better for them to write their feeling in a book which called diary or they just have to share it with their friends. Because if share their problems in social network, every people who is online will know the bad side of them.Your Task is..............Find problems in using social media and the solution of using social media wisely.
Process
here are some steps you may follow in doing your task
- state your thesis statement about phenomenon in using social media
- state your argument / comment about that phenomenon
- state your solutions or recommendation.