Impact of Social Media on Internet: Differentiation, Security Challenges, and Privacy Measures

REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Differentiation between positive and negative impact of social media on internet....................3
Security challenges as well as privacy measures........................................................................5
Differentiation between social media websites...........................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Social media is primarily web-communication tools having common elements which
allows people to communicate with one another and thus share their opinions, interest as well as
ideas in the real-time. The major aim if this report is to study the impact of social media and
websites in-depth and thus analyze the various challenges which users face.
This report gives a brief overview of differentiation between positive and negative impact
of social media on internet, security challenges as well as privacy measures, differentiation
between social media websites.
MAIN BODY
Differentiation between positive and negative impact of social media on internet
Social media has become of the widely known and highly used tool which allows people
to conduct their activities smoothly and let organizations to achieve competitive advantage.
Since the inception of globalization, the emergence of technology has posed a profound impact
on people and has transformed their lives (Anderson and Jiang, 2018). With the emergence of
globalization and liberalization, people have become tech-savvy and now looks for technology-
oriented products in order to fulfill their needs and demands. The advent of technology and
internet has made the presence of social media stronger and powerful and its effect have
expanded on the large platform. However, expansion of social media have resulted in a
tremendous impact on Internet and thus have revolutionized it.
Positive Negative
Enhanced usage
The most effective use of social media
reflect in its application to allow people to
communicate with each other. Social media is
a wide platform through which people interact
with each other as well as organizations
outreach their customers (Fuchs, 2017). Social
media has transformed the way through which
people communicate with each other and thus
have made their interactions highly smooth and
Hacking
Although social media has provided a
great platform for users to communicate with
each other but has also posed serious threats
for them among which te most common is
cybercrimes and hacking. More than half of the
population today are becoming the prey of
hacking along with large number of
organizations. This has impacted internet in
negative way (Tuten and Solomon, 2017). Due