Positive and Negative Aspects of Social Media

INDIVIDUAL
REPORT

ABSTRACT
Social media is most common platform for people to interact with each other in global
context. This internet based platform allows the people to share their opinion, happiness,
sorrows, business ideas with millions of people in few minutes. This report includes about
positive aspect of social media such as it is time consuming and cost efficient way to interact
with people without considering geographical distance. Negative aspect of social media is that it
is a distraction and reduces research skills of people. Main challenges of social media are its bad
influence on health and mind state of people. Social media is an efficient communication tool if
used in a secured manner.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW ...............................................................................................................1
Comparison between negative and positive aspect about social media on the internet..............1
SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLANGES AND MEASURES.................................................................2
Mention about the measures and challenges about privacy and security which are important
when services of social media are used.......................................................................................2
COMPARISON OF SOCAIL MEDIA SITES................................................................................3
Chose two examples from the social media, compare their feature, sustainability in business
context, applications....................................................................................................................3
Justify whether or not social media can be used as a communication tool.................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Social media is referred as the collection of online communication channels which are
dedicated towards community based interaction, collaboration, content sharing and input.
Different kind of social media involves micro-blogging, social bookmarking, forums, social
networking and wikis. All these elements of social media helps people in interacting with each
other and sharing of idea in global context (Allcott, Gentzkow and Yu, 2019). This assignment
report is based upon social media which is a important constituent of internet. This project will
cover information about negative and positive aspects of social media along with challenges and
measure of security and privacy while using social media. Other than this, differentiation
between two type of social media examples and their effectiveness in supporting business will be
discussed. At last, it will be mentioned that if social media is an appropriate tool for
communication or not.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Comparison between negative and positive aspect about social media on the internet
According to the opinion of Akram, w., 2018, social media is basically a platform for the
people in global context so that they can share their interest, activities, real life connections and
backgrounds in appropriate manner. Influence of social media is more on teenagers and adult
rather than old age people. Thus, it can be said that social media is becoming an important part of
life of people. It is also a web based communication tool so that two or more than two people can
visually interact with each other without any physical interaction. For example, Twitter site
allows its users to pin a tweet on permanent basis due to which popularising or communicating it
became easier. Social media which is a part of internet posses both negative and positive
influences and aspects. Comparison between these aspects are mentioned here (Greenwood,
Perrin and Duggan, 2016).
Positive aspects
As we know that Social media is a place where a person can interact with their family,
friends and other persons in a convenient way. This benefits an individual in building and
sustaining strong relationship with them even if they can't meet personally. This allow a person
to acknowledge the events and incidents which happens with their loved ones. Thus, social
media helps in maintaining strong bond among relatives and friends. Other positive aspect of
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