Do online social networking sites isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or rather bring people closer to their love ones? Are you also hooked in social networking sites? Do you ever think of how strongly can social media influence and control people’s lives? If you want some knowledge and trivia's about it, then you must also read this. Social media has been broadly defined to refer the widely accessible electronic tool that spreads news, information, built relationships, and gives one source to many receivers. Although Social networking sites have so many benefits, it also has negative effects on people. We want to inform people what’s behind and communication through social media, and also how it affects people’s lives.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube are some of the most popular websites not only here in the Philippines, but also all over the world. In fact, as of September 2014 there are 71% of online adults who use their time on using Facebook, while 23% use Twitter, 20% use Instagram, and both Pinterest and Linked In has been used 28% respectively. And now as of 2015, how does the social web look like? There are now 7.2 billion people on the planet and of those the following numbers, make interesting reading. There are just over 3 billion active Internet users (45% of the world’s internet users). Nearly 2.1 billion people have social media accounts, and 3.65 billion mobile users have access to the internet via smartphones and tablets, and close to 1.7 billion people have active social media accounts.
As we’ve said above, social networking sites have so many benefits like Facebook, that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and videos, send messages, and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. The site, which is available in 37 different languages, includes public features such as groups, pages, events, market place, and presence technology. Facebook is a popular free social networking website. In fact there are nearly 1.4 billion Facebook users, 47% of all Internet users are on Facebook, 4.5 billion likes are generated daily and Facebook is now over 11 years old and heading towards platform puberty and is still the standout leader of the pack. The Twitter; that allows registered members to broadcast short posts called tweets. This site can also help anyone because in Twitter, you can express your anger, your happiness and your feelings. And by using Twitter, you can see the latest trend which is happening around the globe because it is a free social networking micro blogging service. Twitter has 284 million active users at last count and it has 500 million tweets per day. The video sharing website is called YouTube. It is where you can view and also upload videos. You can watch educational videos, international and local news, instructions for cooking, comedy videos, trends and other entertaining movies. YouTube is now one of the most popular sites on the web, with visitors watching around 6 billion hours of video every month.
In our modern generation, we are now allowed to see stuffs and latest happenings about our idols and friends by following them in sites such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, and many more. Not only the local celebrities you are allowed to follow, but also Hollywood actor/actress. Nowadays, the TV Networks focus their attention through social media. Sometimes they give more opportunities to those people who make viral videos rather than their own talents. For example, Maine Mendoza, also known as Yaya Dub, is now considered as the fastest growing celebrity profiles. She is known by creating a viral video using the application called Dubsmash. On June 19, 2015, Eat Bulaga invited the popular dubsmasher to audition for their new concept and luckily, Maine got hired. After a couple of months, the tandem of her and Alden Richards (AlDub) is now called as a phenomenal love team. There are so many positive effects of social websites and social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Messenger, blogs, and other websites are really helpful. It makes you feel connected to a larger community, but such easy, casual connection in an electronic environment can also have its downside.
One of the possible effects that people do is sense of connection. Social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster or adopt in the real world. People might focus and spend a lot of time and energy connecting to other people on social media. But the most important connections or real meaning of connection is lessening because of the negative effects of social media in socializing people. One of the negative effects of social media is “Cyber bullying”. Simple jokes and funny words that might insult and hurt other people feelings can be called as bullying. Cyber bullying is the use of digital technologies with intent to offend, humiliate, threaten, harass or abuse somebody. It may also leave deep emotional and mental scars in their lives. Cyber bullying spread among kids, youth and even adult, with 42% reporting that they have been victims, according to a 2010 CBS news report and it continues to increase the victims of the Cyber bullying. The other type of the negative effects is distraction. It affects the youth students and working people more. Students are attempting to multi-task. They are trying to check various social media sites while they study. Continuous access to social media sites means that it’s difficult to switch yourself off from some form of social networking, and their ability to concentrate on their task at hand gets significantly reduced due to the distraction that also leads to decreased academic performance.
Social networking sites clearly portray both positive and negative effects on people and on the youth. It is the decision of an individual to make whether to continue using the sites or not because there is no general law or general rule book of the do’s and don’ts of how to use the computers nor the social websites. We believe that the benefits of social media are helpful to the world as we communicate. As with anything, there will be disadvantages and it will be used to do things that were not originally intended. We want to aim a better understanding for everyone and we want others to get over this unhealthy addiction. We must know the limits and danger and practice the healthy way of using social websites. As social media users, we must know the impact of every action we’ll do.
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