Comparison between positive and negative aspects of social media on internet

Integrated Professional Skills in
the Digital Age

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Comparison between positive and negative aspects of social media on internet........................3
Challenges and measures of security and privacy on social media.............................................6
Comparison between Facebook and Twitter................................................................................8
Similarities Between Facebook And Twitter.................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Social media is a platform that allows people to interact with each other, share
information quickly and efficiently through websites or application. This report compares and
contrasts between the positive and negative aspects of social media on the Internet. It also
discusses various challenges of security and privacy that are faced when social media service is
used online. It explains different measures of security and privacy should be taken when social
media services are used online. At last, this report compares between Facebook and Twitter on
the basis of features, application and discussing their suitability for businesses. It also explains
social media is an effective tool for communication between people.
Comparison between positive and negative aspects of social media on internet
Social media provide various benefits to internet and helps in effectively transmission of
information between people thus helps in increasing knowledge and social interaction between
people living in the society. Thus, various positive impacts of social media on internet are as
follows:
Social media facilitate exchange of information through effective internet
connection: Now a day everyone uses internet to exchange information between each other
quickly and effectively this has happened with the help of social media. Social media through
effective internet connection is able to enhances knowledge and skills of people by providing
information. Various video and online course on social media has lead to more use of internet by
people for learning things quickly and easily. Demand of internet has increased because people
are able to exchange information and learn new thing by use of social media in minimum time
and at lower cost.
Internet has grown with social media: Internet is used by everyone in today generation
because of various social sites and webpages. Even Company use social media to promote its
business on large scale to attract large number of customers and enhance its sales and
profitability. As Social media is such platform that attracts large number of customers within
limited time, cost and efforts. So company in order to promote their business on social media and
to get continuous feedback and stay connected with customers demand for more speedy internet
connection. Speedy network also helps in exchange of various crucial information of businesses
through various social sites and webpages and promote new product. Social media is also
medium for entertainment for the people living in the society. People enjoy spending time on

social media as they spent lot of time in surfing various sites, watching videos and playing games
online. Thus, continuous use of social media among younger generation for various purpose has
increase demand of better and effective internet connection. Thus, social media has lead to
popularity of internet in businesses and younger generation.
Increased use of internet: Social media helps in generation of employment and source
of income for many people as by using social media they make video and earn money. It has
pace in growth and development of telecommunication industry and helps in generation of large
number of employment due to increase demands of internet among people. Thus, social media
has provided benefit to internet by increasing its popularity and usage of internet by every
individual. Social sites such as Facebook, Twitter are used by most of the people for sharing
their memories, photo so for it required connection such as 4G and 5G network thus it helps in
timely share such experience with large number of peoples. Living standard of people have
increased due to social media as they are able to know trends and lifestyles of people living away
from each other. Thus, they try to imitate culture and lifestyles of others people in order to look
stylish so it enhances living standard of people living in the society. Therefore, people in order to
bring changes in their lifestyles and increase their knowledge about various culture and dressing
use social-media thus demand for effective internet connection.
Promote economy development: Social media promotes economic development by
enhancing knowledge, skills of people to use updated technology. Different people share new
ideas, view and opinion that help in enchaining knowledge and learning of individual thus
popularity of internet connection increases. Every individual want to have internet connection in
their phone due to various benefit of social media. Increase use of social media among younger
generation increases demand of speedy internet connection thus it helps in growth and
development of telecommunication industry and generate large number of employment. Thus, it
can be stated that social media is able to promote economic development that has increase usage
of internet connection.
Despite various benefits there are certain disadvantages of social media on the internet they are
explained below:
People restrict use of internet: The main disadvantages of social media is it cause
depression and anxiety among people as they spend most of their time surfing on various sites
and web pages this is due to internet. Continuous use of social media through internet impacts