Pros and Cons of Social Media

Pros And Cons Of Social Media

1. Introduction

Recently, social media being a thing that people can not avoid. Research shows that social media is even harder to resist than cigarettes. In addition, According to Kaplan and Haenlein (Wikipedia), social media has some different types, such as collaborative projects, blogs and micro blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds. Those kinds of social media have it own function. The purpose of this paper is to explore more about social media. It covers the pros and cons of social media. That way, people can decide whether social media should be banned or not.

2. Positive Impact – Entertainment

From examining the findings, social networking sites are the most popular sites recently, such as facebook ,twitter, and youtube. Most of the users are worker and students. They use it as way to express more about themselves and for entertaining from their hard works or studies. However, another people use social media for promoting their company (Morgan, 2011). It is evident from the data that online shopping is a new trend. So, it is effective to promote your company using social media because it can increase your customer.

3. Negative Impacts

4.1. Addiction

However, same like drugs and cigarettes, social media also be an addiction for some people. This addiction makes people busy to keep updating their status and losing their job because they can not be focus on their job (Megan Donley, 2011). Schwerdtfeger (Is Social Media A Waste Of Time, 2012) also argued that social media was wasting time. Moreover, it can also decrease family time. From previous research, it shows that parents found their children keep focus updating status on social networking sites and not joining the conversations with them.

4.2. Cyber Bullying

Recently, it is really easy to find personal information about someone. On the other word, stalking. As shown on research,...