Social Networking has been around long enough to consider the positives and negatives that it provides to society. Use recent events to discuss cases from the last 2 years.
Phenomenon of social Networking has been emerging since around last 10 years. Daily hundreds or thousands of people start making use of social networking. So, it is a growing network which is being used by millions of people today. People use social networking in their leisure time as well as sometimes at work. Social networking has become a primary reason for which people have become Internet users. Even those people who were not aware of web or internet, they are also using social networking now.
Facebook has been ranked one of the most visited website in the world which has more than 500 million subscribed users to the date. Social networking is generally popular among the youngsters or adults who make use of social networking for chatting, instant messaging, photo sharing, photo editing, educational purposes, sharing queries etc. It has been recommended that age group of 16-29 are seen to be online using internet daily 90% rather than any other age group. With the use of Social Networking Service, users are able to communicate with each other in various forms. They use social networks for updating their profiles, commenting on the photos, posting messages or wishes, sending private messages. Creating and sharing various content blogs in the form of articles, videos, photos, audios are also facilitated by Social Networking Services. There are various positive as well as negative impacts of Social Networking Services which are described as follows:
There are many reasons why Social Network is being used widely and greatly. Some of the positive impacts of Social Networking Services are described as follows:
There is a school named as Burley Middle School which makes use of social networking sites such as twitter and Instagram. Principal of the school said that when he opened the school, there was a twitter account for informational purposes, and few teachers had also twitter accounts. Then he opened Instagram account for going paperless in a school. Then every student and every faculty member started and opened their social network accounts for the information and academic purposes.
There is a software company named as “SEOMoz”, a software company which is a search engine optimization and social monitoring service provider. They make use of gaming mechanics for spurring participation from their writers and site members. They make use of posts or comments or likes to enhance their business.
A survey has been done in which it is said that social networking is good if people share positive thoughts so that people who think of suiciding or killing themselves must be inspired from such thoughts. There are many persons or blogs which are sharing these kinds of positive thoughts on the networking sites such as Facebook or Instagram to inspire people and those blogs have now number of followers.
There is always a possibility that if something has a positive side, then it will surely have some negative side too. Same is with the Social networking service. So, some of the negative impacts of Social Networking Services are described below:
Addiction:
It has been surveyed that not just the youngsters, even kids who have age around 8-15 years have accounts on social networking sites like Facebook or Instagram. They are so addicted that they even forget to take food sometime and keep their eyes focused on the social networking sites. They do not even listen to their parents and keep themselves busy on the site. Spending countless hours on social network may distract their concentration from studies and some particular tasks that they have to do. Eve youngsters have become so addicted that they keep on checking their profiles within a minute or so. Because of the addiction, motivational level of people has been lowered, sleeping habit has been affected, and health has been affected. Those who use to rely mainly on internet, they rarely have any practical knowledge about something.
Real Case of Addiction is that there was a 14-year old girl named Jenna Betti who was killed by a train when she tried to retrieve her phone which was dropped by her on the tracks. She was hit by a freight train in Martinez, CA in March 2014. Her mother told that she had been sitting with her boyfriend on the platform but when she saw train approaching, they ran off. But she found that her phone had dropped on the tracks, she ran back again just for the mobile phone and got sucked by the vacuum of the train.
Impact on Kids:
Social Networking affects kids so greatly. Sometimes, the photos which are shared on social network are of violence and related to sex which affects the behavior of teenagers or kids. Kids usually do not have knowledge about this kind of stuff, so they start getting involved in all this stuff which leads them to get involved in crime related activities. So, social network then puts a negative effect on overall society.
Sharing of Data:
Nowadays, with the use of Social Networking, people involve themselves in sharing most of the data which imposes threat that their confidential or sensitive data may be stolen by the third party or attackers. Downloading videos and copying text has become so much easy that anyone can copy or download it and may use it for some wrong purpose. Even attackers or criminals download the profile pictures of the users and use it for many wrong purposes. So, a user must be aware while sharing or posting some data.
Lead to Isolation:
Extreme usage of social (Social Media Today, 2012) networking decreases the level of human interaction. Due to the social network, people are hardly interested in meeting with each other as they keep themselves busy on social networks. They use to make virtual friends whom they have not even met in their life and lesser involved with real friends. So, social networking is making people isolated and alone.
Affected Productivity:
Social media is used in businesses to communicate with the clients. But sometimes, it becomes distraction for the employees who show interest in what their friends or colleagues are posting on social media which distracts their concentration on their tasks. It has been surveyed that Facebook has affected 1.5% of the office productivity. Some companies have adopted technologies that block the social media in the work places but they also remain ineffective as new technologies have been developed that allow access to the blocked sites.
Cyberbullying:
Cyberbullying is the use of information technology to harm other people in a deliberate manner. Cyberbullying is to threaten people for posting rumors. One of the real cases of Cyberbullying was that there was an 18-year-old girl named Jessica Logan sent her nude picture to her boyfriend but it was reported by Cincinnati Enquirer that the photo was sent to hundreds of people after the couple broke up. The cyberbullying continued through Facebook, MySpace and text messages.
One of the negative impacts of social networking is that it is now altering the appetite of people. According to Women’s health, “food porn” photos are used to activate the center of brain reward and used to compel viewers to overeat. It has been suggested in the study that by looking at the food images after a meal leads to trigger the hunger.
Sometimes, due to addiction of social networking, people spend so much money on the use of social networks. For e.g. people are becoming so addicted such that they spend lot of money on their internet recharges. They cannot even stay without internet. Their addiction gets increased to a level that they can recharge their mobile phones even in the mid of night.
Conclusion
This reports discusses about the various positive and negative effects of social networking such as increase growth of business, removing communication an interaction barrier, digital marketing, raising awareness, uniting people, providing educational forums etc. The negative impacts of social networking are not only on technology but it is affecting the heath and lives of people. It has been surveyed that number of people suicide due to isolation feeling, or due to cyberbullying. Pictures that people share on social networks are being misused for pornography purposes. So, the report analyses that there are both positive and negative impacts of the social networking. It depends on the user who uses it.
With the help of various training workshops on the best use of social networking and the good communication between parents and kids, cyberbullying and suicide can be reduced to a great level.
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