KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA,

GRI CAMPUS, DINDIGUL

Summer Holiday Home Work

Subject: English
Topic: "Social Media: Impact on Human
Behavior and Society "
Done by: N.Naveen Pillai-XII 'A'
Submitted to: Mrs. P. Nagarathinam,
PGT English
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
IT GIVES ME GREAT JOY TO INTRODUCE THE
PROJECT “SOCIAL MEDIA: IMPACT ON HUMAN
BEHAVIOR AND SOCIETY ”. I WOULD LIKE TO
EXPRESS MY SPECIAL THANKS OF GRATITUDE TO
MY ENGLISH TEACHER MRS.P. NAGARATHINAM
WHO GAVE ME THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO
DO THIS WONDERFUL PROJECT. I MIGHT
LIKEWISE WANT TO CONVEY MY THANKS
TOWARDS MY FRIENDS FOR THEIR BENEVOLENT
CO-ACTIVITY AND CONSOLATION WHICH
CAUSED ME TO CONSUMMATION THIS TASK.
LAST YET NOT LEAST, I THANK MY COMPANIONS
WHO SHARED ESSENTIAL DATA AND VALUABLE
WEB JOINS FOR SETTING UP MY UNDERTAKING.
CERTIFICATE
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT N.NAVEEN
PILLAI OF CLASS '12TH' AND SECTION 'A'
HAS COMPLETED THE PROJECT "SOCIAL
MEDIA: IMPACT ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND
SOCIETY" SUCCESSFULLY AND HAS
FOLLOWED ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS
GIVEN.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Most Famous Social Media.
The Positive Impact of Social Media in
Human Behavior.
Good Impacts of Social Median in Society.
The Negative Impact of Social Media in
Human Behavior.
The Bad Impacts of Social Media in
Society.
Social media
Social media ::
MOST
FAMOUS
SOCIAL
MEDIA
Instagram is an American photo and video
sharing social networking service founded in
2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger,
and later acquired by Facebook Inc.. The
app allows users to upload media that can
be edited with filters and organized by
hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts
can be shared publicly or with preapproved
followers. Users can browse other users'
content by tag and location, view trending
content, like photos, and follow other users
to add their content to a personal feed.
Facebook is an American online social media and
social networking service owned by Meta
Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg
with fellow Harvard College students and
roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name
comes from the face book directories often given
to American university students. Membership was
initially limited to Harvard students, gradually
expanding to other North American universities
and, since 2006, anyone over 13 years old. As of
2020, Facebook claimed 2.8 billion monthly active
users, and ranked fourth in global internet usage.
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform
headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14,
2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by
Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search.
YouTube has more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch
more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos
were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per
minute.
The Positive
Impact of
Social Media
on Human
Behaviour
Social media gave access to varied opinions and
thoughts of people of different cultures and different
regions. This has the power to make people broad-
minded, challenge stereotyped views on particular
communities and develop mutual respect among
people of different backgrounds.
People are expanding knowledge through social
media.
Most of the social media content creators encourage
people to pursue the career they love, to take care of
themselves, and learn new skills etc. This creates a
positive impact on human behaviour.
GOOD IMPACTS OF
SOCIAL MEDIA IN
SOCOETY
TRADITIONAL MEDIA (PRINT MEDIA, TELEVISION ETC.) WAS THE
ONLY MEDIUM UNTIL RECENTLY TO REACH PEOPLE. NOT
EVERYONE COULD SHARE THEIR VIEWS AND INFORMATION WITH
PEOPLE. MOST OF THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA CHANNELS ARE IN
THE HANDS OF BIG BUSINESSES. SOCIAL MEDIA ENRICHED
DEMOCRACY AND EQUALITY BY ENABLING EVERYONE TO SEND
OUT THEIR CONTENT TO A LARGER AUDIENCE.
SOCIAL MEDIA GIVES VOICE TO MINORITIES AND VULNERABLE
SECTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, MORE AND MORE WOMEN ARE
VOICING THEIR OPINIONS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, WHO WERE
OTHERWISE NOT ENCOURAGED TO SPEAK UP DUE TO CULTURAL
NORMS. ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS THAT DIFFERENTLY-ABLED PEOPLE
ARE SHARING CONTENT TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE
SAME PROBLEMS, AND ARE VOICING THEIR THOUGHTS TO
GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY.
PEOPLE ARE COLLABORATING FOR GOOD. TWEETING BY
HASHTAGS, THEY ARE PUSHING GOVERNMENTS TO DO THEIR
DUTIES. SOCIAL MEDIA HAS A STAKE IN IMPROVING SOCIETY.
FOR EXAMPLE, SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYED A GREAT ROLE IN ARAB
SPRING.
The negative impact of
Social media on human
behavior
Many people became celebrities through social media. This is
encouraging many others to become celebrities. In the
process, some are turning into self-obsessed and
narcissistic.
Social media is also encouraging violent behaviour for many.
Before the internet era, people could not harass others
easily. But now, anyone can easily harass and threaten
others by hiding their identity. Most of the social media
content creators face cyberbullying, threats and trolling.
People, who are used to harass others online tend to develop
more violent behaviour.
Some people, especially teens suffer from anxiety and
depression when they face cyber-bullying. Lack of
awareness on netiquette is causing some people to cause
cyberbullying.
Face-to-face interactions which are
necessary for development of
personalities, learning social skills and
communication skills, have been
removed from the lives of people,
especially younger generations.
Children are having a difficult time
interacting with others, which might
lead to unsociable behaviour.
Comparison with other lives has been
made easy by social media. People
become unhappy with their current
circumstances, leading to problems
with self-esteem and depression.
Social media has also been used as tool to
spread negativity and rumors online which has
lead to increase in the instances of violence in
the society. For instance - Recently, the rumours
of kidnappers over WhatsApp have led to
deaths of innocent people in various parts of
India.
With social media it has become nearly
impossible to avoid bad news and the negative
influences on our lives. This can lead to long-
lasting psychological repercussions and
ultimately lead to thoughts of our world falling
apart, stress and anxiety.