Effects of Social Media

How social media, web sharing, and/or similar trends in the Internet will affect social and personal behaviors

Social Media is an instrument of communication, a content created and shared by individuals on the web using freely available websites that allow users to create and post their own images, video and text information and then share that with either the entire internet or just a select group of friends. There is a big influence of technique on our daily life. Electronic devices, multimedia and computers are things we have to deal with everyday. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and surely the medium of the future. Therefore, we thought that it would be necessary to think about some good and bad aspects of how this medium influences us, what impacts it has on our social behavior and what the future will look like.

Social media is changing our relationship styles personally and socially. First, it’s allowing us to connect with more people more rapidly. Second, it makes us more susceptible to a sort of social media contagion effect, which means we may possibly start adopting behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs from those within our social network. And lastly, social media facilitates comparing ourselves with others, which may have positive or negative effects.

I. Allows You to Connect with More People

Social media allows us to connect with many more people, from all walks of life, than we might normally meet in a normal workweek. With social media, we can generate new social contacts all over the world. It also benefits people who cannot go out to find friends in the real life. Therefore, they can use these different social networking sites to chat with them. Sometimes it is also easier for people, who are anxious to look into the other’s face while talking, to chat with a person that they do not know. There is something between them, which makes it...