Social Media: Impact, Advantages, and Disadvantages Analysis Report

This report examines the multifaceted impact of social media. It begins by defining social media and highlighting its role in facilitating communication and information sharing. The report then delves into the advantages, such as enhanced global connectivity, easy access to information, business development, and the ability of organizations to reach a wider audience. The advantages also include the ability of governments to better their conditions. However, it also acknowledges the disadvantages, including cyberbullying, data privacy concerns, and the potential for reputational damage. The report references several academic sources to support its claims. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of responsible social media use. The content is available on Desklib, a platform offering past papers and solved assignments to aid student learning.

ROLE OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA IN IMPROVING LIVES

SOCIAL MEDIA
Collections of online channels of communication which
are dedicated specially to the community based
interactions.
Involves sharing of contents and collaborations.
Involves technologies that are controlled by the means of
computer.
Facilitates the creation and sharing of information, ideas,
careers and interests of the people (Zeng and Gerritsen
2014).

ADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Easier way to connect with people across the world.
People are able to access the required information within
a very short span of time.
Hassel free gathering of information and learning new
disciplines without any kind of payment.
Helps the people to keep themselves updated with the
facts that are occurring in the world.
Interactions within and out side one’s communities and
religion.

ADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
(continued)
Helps in the establishment of new business.
Helps in the improvement and expansion of the existing
business.
Enhances better communication with the customers.
Helps in the performance of the NGOs and other social
welfare agencies.
Helps people to deal with the donations required for the
needy people of the society.

ADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
(continued)
Helps in the awareness of the people.
People are discovered the use of more new and innovative
products through the help of the social media.
Helps in the security of the people as the security officers
and agencies can spy on the crime and criminals.
Helps the governments to improve the conditions of the
countries (Gikas and Grant 2013).

DISADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Cyber bullying the major crime.
Involves bullying of the children through the use of social
media.
The personal and the private details of a company and
people are hack3ed.
Hacking results in the financial crisis of the people
(Zafarani, Abbasi and Liu 2014).

DISADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
(continued)
Reputation of a company can be turned over.
People do comment false statements that result in the
reputation of the company.
New stories are build up and are shared on the internet
resulting in creating bad reputation of the people.

CONCLUSION
Social media has both advantages and disadvantages
Depends on the perspective of the internet user.
People should be careful while accepting or posting
something over the internet.
The internet does not post anything without prior
permission of the user.

REFERENCES
Gikas, J. and Grant, M.M., 2013. Mobile computing
devices in higher education: Student perspectives on
learning with cellphones, smartphones & social
media. The Internet and Higher Education, 19, pp.18-26.
Zafarani, R., Abbasi, M.A. and Liu, H., 2014. Social
media mining: an introduction. Cambridge University
Press.
Zeng, B. and Gerritsen, R., 2014. What do we know about
social media in tourism? A review. Tourism Management
Perspectives, 10, pp.27-36.