Positive and Negative Aspects of Social Media on the Internet

CFPBUS006 - Integrated Professional Skills in the Digital
Age

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Compare and contrast between the positive and negative aspects of Social media on the
Internet....................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the challenges and measures of security and privacy that are taken when Social media
services are used online..........................................................................................................4
Select any two examples of Social media, compare and contrast their features, applications,
discussing their suitability for businesses. Do you think, Social media site can be a
communication tool? Justify your answer..............................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Social media is defined as the websites and applications that are designed for individuals
in order to share content efficiently, quickly and in real time. Social media also consists of
different applications on smartphones, tablets and computers of people. Social media helps in
sharing of photos, events, opinions, etc. in real time and this has changed the way of living of
individuals. The present report includes positive and negative aspects of social media on the
internet (Bartholomew, and Mason, 2019). This also consists of challenges and measures of
security and privacy used for online services of social media. In third part of this report, two
social media are selected and compared on the basis of their features and applications.
Compare and contrast between the positive and negative aspects of Social media on the Internet
Social media is used by most of the individuals for communicating with each other. This
is the fast growing technology that has made communication easier. Different people are able to
share their thoughts, ideas, views, opinions, information for growing and developing of society
and individual. By using social media, the way of interacting with individuals across the world
has changed. Social networking sites allows individuals for communicating and remaining in
contact with friends and finding new people to talk. The social media websites helps people to
find other individuals having similar interest and in this way they can develop good bond and
relationship (Gandhi, 2019). There are several groups present within the social networking sites
and these groups provide innovative ideas and strategies that will help people to get new and
innovative ideas. Social networking helps in creative expression by the use of messaging and
blogging to post various stories and ideas. Social media is a tool which helps in sharing
information, pictures and ideas to the other person who can have benefits from such shared
information in the market. In the today's world, social media has become internal part of the
person as well as for the organisation for having competitive advantages in the market. The
young audience are the dominant users of the social media from the whole population in the
market. They share information about their personal life thought the medium of Facebook,
Instagram and twitter and many more (Kannan, Ramakrishnan, and Ojo, 2019). Businesses
owner also use such platform for placing its product at the target market so that they keep
attracting new customer and adopted new changes in the environment. Social media is a
controversial discussion in the market as it can be blessing for some people and for another it