Understanding Community: Impact of Social Media on Strengthening or Weakening Community

Understanding Community
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Table of Contents
Essay Question: Does the use of social media such as facebook, twitter and instagram strengthen
or weaken community?....................................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Literature on impact of Social Media on community.................................................................3
Positive impact of social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more on
community...................................................................................................................................6
Negative impact of social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more on
community...................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9
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Essay Question: Does the use of social media such as facebook, twitter and
instagram strengthen or weaken community?
Introduction
Over the years, it has been examined that Social Media (Online Networking) specifically
came up with different ideologies that has helped individuals who belongs to a specific
community or belongs to different communities or religion to share their views, talk to each
other build up stronger relationships with each other and perform many more other activities as
well (Ogink and Dong, 2019). In present context, some of crucial social media tools that came in
front and are utilised by different communities like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and
many more that has developed rich systems of companions, get visit refreshes from individuals
in their lives, and fabricate a feeling of network where relations are specifically being
maintained. Present essay will consider the information of how social media has affected
communities like if it is has helped them in become much more stronger of weaken as a subject.
Also the community that has been taken into consideration is Youngsters (Teenagers).
Main Body
Literature on impact of Social Media on community
The entirety of this brings up the issue, is web based life reinforcing the different social
networks, or is investing energy in mobiles, tablets, laptops and PCs really hurting capacity to
interface face to face (Wildavsky, Lockhart and Coughlin, 2018). One ordinarily held view holds
that investing a lot of energy in web based life is hindering. Numerous powerful individuals
extending from Pope Francis, to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to entertainer and vocalist
Selena Gomez have cautioned that abuse of internet based life can be unsafe and separating. In
an ongoing meeting with Stephen Colbert, Michelle Obama expressed that “Public would need to
get off the smart phones and thump on entryways and converse with one another eye to eye”. He
also mentioned that “One cannot depend on the web for getting educated with different subjects
us regarding the world."
If it is talked about the tradition then the most punctual techniques for conveying across
huge spans utilized composed correspondence conveyed by hand written with one individual
then onto the next. Lately, letters was also considered to be one of the crucial method that was
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