Positive And Negative Effect Of Social Network

Positive impact of Social Network

Question:

Write an essay on “Positive and Negative Effect of Social Network”. 

The study includes the demonstration of the impact of the social networking site on the lives of the human. The impact is both good and bad. The social networking refers to the practice of the stretching the human connections through making a connection with individuals. Through the establishment of the web-based groups, the facilitation of the web’s potential is now being exploited and identified.

In the basis of the concept of the six degrees of separation, the social networking is implementing the communities that are interconnected or social graphs. The social graphs are the key of assisting people in creating or increasing contacts (Chu and Du 2013). The potential of meeting other people is dependent on the platform as various social networking platforms have different users.

The prime advantage of the social network is that it assists in communicating. Various people from around the world can contact each other. The particular advantage is not only bounded to the social perspective but also in various industries like a library, or academic organization’s employees, and customers are also exploiting the possibilities of the social networking for connecting with each other (Brink and Benschop 2012). Within the social boundaries, the advantage can provide benefits such as spreading news, grab and prosecute crime, making relationships better and meet new persons and much more.

The social networking sites have the potentiality for spreading any news faster than any other media. Within a social media, several peoples get connected and can see and share the same topics. This way the through the sharing of the information many people that are not connected to the person who updated the news can also see the information. Through this method, the social networks spread the information faster than any other media. A survey indicated that fifty percent of the people learn about the breaking news through the social media. Before the arrival of the news crews, the shootout of the CO Theater that occurred on July 20, 2012, was on Twitter and YouTube (Nakamura and Chow 2013). Another incident is that the outlets of the social media were used by the Red Cross urged witnesses for informing their families that they are safe.  A few test studies uncovered another inherent property of social systems: the histogram of the hub availability takes after a force law; the quantity of hubs with k neighbors is contrarily relative to a polynomial in k (Doerr, Fouz and Friedrich 2012).

As per the usage of the social network in the law enforcement, the persons who are connected to that profession believe that the social media is more assisting in solving crimes faster than any other processes. The police departments are also using the social networking and Twitter tracking for arresting the criminals who are accused of bragging the crime on the internet. Taken as an example, in 2011 Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup and as the result, the entire city erupted into riots (Denef, Bayerl and Kaptein 2013). The police authorities used more than two-thousand photos as a proof to catch the rioters and the vandals. The photos were posted on the social media sites.

Spreading News

Another crucial but uncommon positive impact of the social network on the life of the human is that it enhances the quality of life of a person. Not only increasing the lifestyle but it also assists in reducing the threats regarding health. Social is capable of improving memory retention, stroke recuperation, life satisfaction and on the whole well-being by offering clients with a large social grouping (Kluemper, Rosen and Mossholder 2012). Furthermore, the health exercises and practices are promoted in the social networks by the professionals and connected friends.

The social network also influences very deep aspects of the society; it facilitates political changes. A faster social movement with the cost for organizing, broadcasting information, and assembling people can be conducted through the social networking sites. Taken as an example, An overview of media use by Egyptian dissidents was handled over a 4-day time span starting on Friday, February 24, 2011, under two weeks after President Mubarak surrendered. Meetings were at first led by straightforwardly drawing closer individuals in the open boulevards around Tahrir Square. However, this methodology was dropped after roughly 100 meetings had been finished, as a result of interferences and member nervousness. This was a disorganized time of proceeding with road savagery and political vulnerability (Tufekci and Wilson 2012).

In terms of connecting people that obtain the same kinds of service such as students and members of the library, the impact of utilizing the social media is very high. A study in the mid-2000s showed that a large portion of the library chiefs and the overall population in the Australia did not imagine that libraries had a part in the interpersonal interaction. The accentuation of libraries on learning was seen to be unsatisfactory with the way of informal communication. Furthermore, worries on lacking time and assets spent on social organizing devices were raised (Huang, Chu and Chen 2015). In any case, the capability of utilizing long range informal communication as a part of libraries has been illustrated using Facebook and MySpace. By showing their status whether they were online or not, custodians accessible to address their inquiries were effectively recognized by clients. Administrators additionally discovered it invaluable when they wished to speak with partners to answer clients’ inquiries, consequently giving answers all the more productively. Besides, Facebook and MySpace were observed to be useful in upgrading libraries’ social permeability through profiles that demonstrated a uniform character (Chu and Du 2013). It was moreover found that MySpace permitted diverse administrators to contribute.

The academic organizations can distribute the academic information in the social network from where the students can collect it. The teacher will be more connected to the students as the both can communicate with each other at anytime from anywhere. The students resolve their quarries and suggest each other academic books or notes for creating a better academic environment (Buckingham and Willett 2013). The social media is very useful while it comes to the higher studies. Taken as an example, The 2010 ECAR or EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research investigation of college understudies and data innovation uncovered that understudies’ utilization of online networking has relentlessly expanded from 2007 to 2010 what’s more, that the hole amongst more seasoned and more youthful understudy utilization of social media is contracting. All the more particularly, the 2010 ECAR study demonstrated that 33.1% of the member undergrad understudy test (N= 36,950) reported utilizing wikis; 29.4% utilized SNS; 24.3% utilized video-sharing sites; 17.4 utilized electronic logbooks; 11.6% utilized web journals; 4.3% utilized miniaturized scale web journals; and 2.8% utilized social bookmarking instruments, learning and data, keep up a profile together and advance new library accumulations (Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012).

Improved Communication

It will be imprudence to believe that the social networking sites only provide benefits. Though being comprised of so many positive impacts on the society, there are various drawbacks of social media upon the lives of the people. As well as spreading the news quickly, it also responsible for the false and unreliable information. According to a study, 49.1 percent of the social media users came across with the false news and information (Doerr, Fouz and Friedrich 2012). The use of the social networking site is always not a secure thing to do. The information of the users often gets disclosed or provided to the government and corporate organizations. Addiction to the social networks also has a bad effect on the studies. According to some of the teacher, the impact of the social network is negative rather positive as it contains several factions that can distract the students from studies (Rennie and Morrison 2013). It also affects the people physiologically as it can lead to offline relationship issues and stress.  It also reduces the capability of a person to have a proper in-person conversation. 

3. Conclusion:

From the above study, it can be concluded that the use of the social networking site can provide various advantages but the underlying hidden negative effects of it o the human is also not negligible. The discoveries of this study demonstrate that informal communication instruments were being utilized by various scholarly libraries. The advantages of utilizing these instruments are seen to exceed the costs, which were accounted for to be insignificant, if not none. Informal communities may impact an individual’s conduct, in any case, they likewise mirror the individual’s own particular exercises, interests, also, feelings. These shared characteristics make it almost inconceivable to decide from observational information whether any specific collaboration, method of correspondence or social environment is in charge of the obvious spread of conduct through a system. With regards to our study, there are three conceivable instruments that may clarify dissemination like wonders. The disadvantages cannot be clearly seen as the positive effects can be. The negativity that the social networking is spreading around the around is acting like a slow poison. For controlling the disadvantages of the social network, it is very crucial to governing it properly by all countries in the world. 

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