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Topics Page
1 Introduction: 2

2 10 types of social media and what they’re used for: 2

3 Impacts of Social Media: 3

4 is social media Good or Bad? 4

5 Advantages: 4

6 Disadvantages: 5

7 Conclusion 7
8 References: 8

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((Social media))

Introduction:
Social media is a web‐based technology to facilitate social interaction between a large group
of people through some type of network. In common widely used network is the Internet. But
social media platforms are also for local networks as well.

Social media is growing rapidly and becoming an inevitable part of everyday life, because of
the latest technological revolution. This stunning growth is due to the increasing usage of
smart phones like BlackBerrys, Q-Mobile, Androids and iPhones. These Smart phones make
it easy to access any social media platform from anywhere virtually. The mobile versions of
these social media sites are so easy to access made it user friendly. As well as the Map
services made a remarkable usage through mobile to find direction and places easily.

10 types of social media and what they’re used for:

Knowing about these categories of social media and understanding why people use them can
open up new ideas and channels for engaging with your audience more effectively—so let’s
get started.

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Impacts of Social Media:

1.News:

Social media is a way of information. It has become an important source of news. While the
credibility of some sources can clearly be contested, news channels give updates on
significant happenings all over the world. Their availability on social networks makes news
more accessible. Additionally, news quickly gets passed around the networks in ways never
experienced before.

2.Interaction:

Social media has furthered interaction by such a massive scale that is hard not to notice it. It
allows people to keep in touch in a more regularly, and sometimes, more closely, than was
ever before because of time. People cities or continents apart can keep in touch so
effortlessly, creating an opportunity to experience different cultures.

3.Political Landscapes:

Social media has developed greater political awareness and organization, which has in some
cases rewritten entire political landscapes. It has particularly played a large part in the Iran
elections, and Obama’s reelection for a second term as US President, and inspired the
political unrests in Egypt.

4.Learning:

Actually, learning is a two-way process. Social media has also played a large part in
development literacy. Children who start using the platforms develop early communication
skills, and generally become more literate. This is an encouraging trend, and thanks to the
huge availability of information, both simplistic and complex on the internet, anyone can
become as smart or intelligent as they desire.

5.Marketing:

The whole dynamics of marketing have been changed. People can do his business sitting in
his own home. In a few minutes, they check the sample online and give order for delivery.
They are able to understand the needs of the market from the market itself, greatly altering
the way marketing has been done in the past.
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Is social media Good or Bad?

Advantages:
These modern technologies have become our life very easy. It has removed the distance
between the people. Due to this reason, people are always in a contact and share their feeling
with one another. It’s made the world as a globe. We aware every time from all breaking
news that what is doing in our country at this time. As different parts of the world advance at
different pace in education, business, tourism and so on, people tend to migrate from place to
place for varying reasons, ranging from business-related reasons to pleasure-related reasons.
This act of migration causes families, friends, lovers, and other related people to stay
separated by distance.

It would be quite emotionally worrying for one to find out that he or she would be either
temporarily or permanently away from his or her family. There could be psychological effects
associated with being away from home. Most people go through a period of initial depression,
cultural shock, or homesickness no matter how well they are prepared. The temporary
feelings of missing one’s family, home environment, friends, etc. – along with the initial
cultural shock, and readjustment to your new life could be frightening. Though cannot replace
the feeling of being home with one’s family in person, the technology of Skype has made it
possible for many people to make free internet voice and video calls. People will worry less
about cost and converse in a relaxed manner.

Video-chats, such that Skype technology provides, could go a long way in maintaining the
friendly bond in such cases. Social networking can enrich social lives for those separated
from family and friends by long distances, bringing them together despite the physical

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separation. This has been observed in a number of people in the armed forces that use Skype,
Facebook, and twitter to stay in touch.

Though the world is quite large, it now seems “small” due to social networking. People from
different parts of the globe can connect to other people in other parts of the world,
exchanging information and pleasantries. The future of social networking will have the world
to seem even “smaller”

Disadvantages:

There are always two sides of every coin. Mostly people do not use this technology properly.
Social media is just a tool or mean for people to use. It is still up to the users on how to use
this tool (just like a knife, can help you to cut food or hurt others). “Pew Research Center’s
Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center
conducted a study on “The Future of Online Socializing” from the highly engaged, diverse set
of respondents to an online, opt-in survey consisted of 895 technology stakeholders and
critics.” The new generation people spend a lot of time on face book daily. due to this reason,
they cannot get their aim of his future. The negative effects presented by the respondents
included time spent online robs time from important face-to-face relationships; the internet
fosters mostly thin relationships; the act of leveraging the internet to engage in social
connection exposes private information; the internet allows people to silo themselves,
limiting their exposure to new ideas; and the internet is being used to engender intolerance.

Some respondents also highlighted that there will be development of some new psychological
and medical syndromes that will be “variations of depression caused by the lack of
meaningful quality relationships”, and a “new world society”. The term, “Social
Networking”, has begun to deceive the users to believe they are social creatures. For instance,
spending a couple of hours using Farmville and chatting with friends concurrently does not
convert into social skills. People become dependent on the technology and forget how to
socialize in face-to-face context. The online personality of a person might be totally different
from his/her offline character, causing disorder when the two personalities meet. It is
apparent in online dating when the couple gets together in face-to-face for the first time. Their

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written profiles do not clearly represent their real-life characters. It is more inviting for people
to type something that others want to hear than saying the truth.

Besides the “friendship”, creators of social networking sites and users redefine the term,
“privacy” in the Internet as well. The challenge in data privacy is to share data while
protecting personally identifiable information. Almost any information posted on social
networking sites is permanent. Whenever someone posts pictures or videos on the web, it
becomes viral. When the user deletes a video from his/her social network, someone might
have kept it and then posted it onto other sites like YouTube already. People post photographs
and video files on social networking sites without thinking and the files can reappear at the
worst possible time.

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Conclusion:
Today’s social media have helped make real the idea of a “global village”. Social media has
changed the way people communicate. Social media’s greatest change to the way people
communicate is user-produced content and the fast and flexible sharing of this content
Though the world is quite large, it now seems “small” due to social networking. People from
different parts of the globe can connect to other people in other parts of the world,
exchanging information and pleasantries. The future of social networking will have the world
to seem even “smaller”. Everything has some positive aspects as well as negative so does the
social media. But it contributes a lot to the human being in different forms from small scale to
a large scale in every field.

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References:

1) https://www.webfx.com/internet-marketing/social-media-marketing-advantages-and-

disadvantages.html

2) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Social_Media/Introduction

3) https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/the-history-of-social-media-infographic-

1/522285/

4) https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-social-networking/

5) https://www.google.com/search?q=advantage

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