Social Media websites and Networking

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Social Media websites and Networking
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Social networking website that will attract a large percentage of Internet users under the
age of 18.
Introduction
Information communication technology has tremendously caused a lot, both positive and
negative impacts to the society at large. The impact or effects of technology has been achieved in
several fields including; business, government, accessibility to information and education. The
positive impact being it has helped to grow the economy and the living standard of the
community. However, spending much of your time on the internet has led to weakening of the
lively relationship between family members and the relatives. The topic title above explains that
most of the teenagers are totally addicted to the use of the internet. (Duggan, Ellison, Lampe,
Lenhart, and Madden, 2015)
The fact that the internet been of great important to the business environment, internet has made
the teenage group to become lazy. This is in the sense that you find most of the youth staying
over the internet leaving the prioritize work undone. Furthermore, the research shows that more
than 80% of the teenagers normally are on the social media website such as Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram and whatsApp (Couldry, 2012).
The importance of social media website (opportunities)
Opportunity 1(improving the business needs)
The most important aspect of social media websites is that it can be used as a strong business
marketing tool. Most companies or entrepreneurs use social media websites while making
adverts to their services or products. Social media website as regarded as a reliable marketing
tool since it is where you will find most of the people. According to the research studies, it has

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been identified that social media network is the leading platform with the highest number of
access traffic. (Duggan, Ellison, Lampe, Lenhart, and Madden, 2015)
Advertising products over the social media network like Facebook or whatsApp has led to
tremendous improvement in the business field. Most people go to social media platform looking
for product which they may require. This is because it is accessible with known URLs unlike
individual websites.
Opportunity 2 (building a strong relationship community)
Another most important aspect of social media website is that it has enhanced social interaction
between different communities. Social media networking sites has made the globe looks like a
single village. This is because people can interact from wherever they are without necessarily
facing each other. Also by interacting together, people will build strong relationship and peace
will be maintain as if we belong to a single family. Therefore, we should ensure that these sites
are very important in our lives and we should not spam them in any way.
Risk 1 (Misuse of internet resource by teenagers)
However, social media website can be a problem on the other hand. Teenagers (children under
18 years of age) usually misuse the use of social media networking platform. Most of the time
you find this group spending much of their time on the social media platforms. In this case, these
sites are very addictive and may damage the lives of the teenage group. In depth research states
that teenagers uses this social media platform to practice sexual abuse. Every time, we find viral
videos of teenagers engaging in sexual abuse over the social media platform. This kind of
behavior has largely spoilt our children. It has motivated them to misbehave even when they are
too young. (Duggan, Ellison, Lampe, Lenhart, and Madden, 2015)