Exploring the Impact of Social Media and Religion: Benefits, Costs, and Societal Changes

In this document we will discuss about Exploring the Impact of Social Media and Religion and below are the summary points of this document:- Social media and digital technology have transformed communication and socialization, allowing people to connect and share ideas beyond geographical boundaries. The positive impacts of social media include facilitating new connections, uniting people for positive change, spreading positivity through campaigns, and helping to maintain relationships with up-to-date information. However, social media addiction, negative content, false information, and potential risks like kidnapping and robbery are some of the negative impacts associated with social media use. Religion brings positivity to people's lives, fostering engagement with family and happiness, but it can also lead to a short temper and an intolerance for white lies. Religion helps individuals reunite with God and gives meaning to their lives, but while it is not a necessity, it plays a significant role in the lives of many, providing guidance and principles.

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The use of social media and digital technology.....................................................................................2
Benefits and costs of religions in everyday life.....................................................................................3
References.............................................................................................................................................4

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The use of social media and digital technology
The social media has become a vital part of everyone’s life. It feed of communications among
people. It has become powerful as they grow. It has transformed the way people
communicate and socialize with each other. The major advantage of the social media can be
realised in the form of connectivity. People can connect to each other from anywhere and
share their opinion with each other (Boulianne, 2015). The social media and digital
technology are also helpful in updating from the events taking place around. The positive
effects of the social media can be realised in the form of:
 The social media helps people to meet which may not have met other than the social
media.
 It helps in sharing ideas beyond the geographical boundaries.
 The social media unites people on the platform in order to attain specific goals. It
results in implementing positive change in the society.
 The social media spreads positivity in the society by campaigns, promotions and
advertisements. It helps people update and maintain relationships with the current
information.
Along with the positive impacts on the personal relationship quality, it has negative impacts
like
 The negative impact of the social media is that it makes people addicted. The
significant amount of time is spent on the social media which can divert the focus of
the persons on the particular task (Hollis, et al. 2015).
 The social media easily affects to the personal relationships as the content shared on
can contain violence and spread negativity. It can ultimately affect the behaviour of
the individuals.
 The pictures shared on the social media can be used false fully by others. The
reputation can also be easily ruined on the social media by creating a false story. The
falsifying reputation can be conveyed over the social media.
 Some elements like kidnapping, murder and robbery can easily take place by sharing
details on the social media.

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Benefits and costs of religions in everyday life
The people believing in religion have more positivity in life. Such people are more engaged
with the families and happy with the things going on in the life. The religion costs to the
people in the daily life as people lose their temper soon. It is because such people do not
accept the white lies taking place (Grzymala-Busse, 2016). The benefit of religion in the daily
life can be attained as it helps to reunite with the God. It is the goals of the human life to
reunite with the God. Religion is not necessity but is a significant part of the lives. A large
number of people find difficult to survive without any religion. Every religion is considered
perfect in their own way and same values and principles are taught. The religion benefits
people as it helps to guide people and bring into the light. It brings out the meaning of the life
what is really wanted by the people in their lives.
The religions such as Christian, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism or Islam focus on the moral
values which has role in balance out the life. The religion benefits as it helps to choose right
over wrong and truth over evil. The religions have costs and changing faith can cost to loose
family and friends. It has also economic implications. The religious people in the United
States spend almost 2134.42 every year to participate in the religion comprising monetary
donations and other annual costs. Three out of four Americans recognize themselves
associated with some religious faith (Nynäs, 2016). The effects of religion in the everyday are
widespread. For instance, Americans specified that they contributed financially to their
religions to define the financial impact of the financial associations. It has been also revealed
that a large segment of people has distanced themselves from their respective region because
of the financial pressure.

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References
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Grzymala-Busse, A., 2016. Religion and European Politics. The Oxford Handbook of
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Hollis, C., Morriss, R., Martin, J., Amani, S., Cotton, R., Denis, M. and Lewis, S., 2015.
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Nynäs, P., 2016. Religion, gender and sexuality in everyday life. Routledge.