Effects and Advantages/Disadvantages of Social Media

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Abstract:
This report consists of a brief discussion about the social media. Brief discussion has been given
about the effects and the disadvantages and the advantages of using the social media has been
provided in this report. The advancement in the technology has made more use of social media in
different stages of life. Social media has both positive and negative outputs. It helps in every
stage of life by decreasing the communication gap, increased promotion, helps in different
learning processes, helps the job seekers increases knowledge of an individual. Whereas it can
also cause an environment of violence in the society, damage the reputation of a person, cause
mental stress and many more things. The main purpose of this report is to learn about the various
outcomes of the topic and to develop a strategy for the purpose of betterment.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Key features of social media:..........................................................................................................3
Effects of social media (negative and positive):..............................................................................4
Advantages and disadvantages of social media:..............................................................................6
Disadvantages of social media:.......................................................................................................7
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................8
References:....................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction:
Social media are the type of technologies that are computer mediated facilitating the
creation and for the purpose of sharing of the various expressions by the use of “virtual
networks” and “virtual communities”. Social medias are nothing but a collection of the channels
of the communication used for the purpose of interactions, to share various components and for
many other purposes. Social media is based upon the internet allowing individuals to interact
with one another and for exchanging various details (Stieglitz et al.,2014). Different types of
social media include “micro blogging sites”, “wiki”, “Facebook”,” twitter” and many more. This
report discusses about the brief explanation of the features along with the advantages and the
disadvantages of Social media.
Key features of social media:
Social media can be accessed by the technologies that are having access to internet.by the
use of the social media services individuals, organisations and communities can share their
thoughts and continue discussion on the topics uploaded on the websites via smartphones,
computers, laptops, tablets and many more electronic devices having internet access (Fuchs et
al., 2013). The keys feature of the social media are listed below:
 Social media can only be accessed by the use of internet.
 The various things uploaded on the social media by the users are the main contents on the
social media. This includes the videos, images, texts, comments and the data that are
generated by the online based interactions.
 Different profiles are created by the users for the purpose of using the social media sites.
 Social media helps in creating connections between different individuals.