The Side Effects of Social Media

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We live in a world with technological advances that are rapidly changing right in front of our very eyes. The main focus here is the effects of social media globally and locally. There are many positives and negatives that social media has on our society. In this essay we will be taking a look at social media locally in our own country and globally through other countries around the world. Is social media a positive or negative thing in our world today? That is probably one of the most frequent questions that are asked each and everyday. There are really two views that our society thinks about social media. There are the people that think social media is advancing for the better and is serving for a revelation that will change the way the world will be forever. Yet, there are others who seem to believe that social media has a severe negative impact on our society today. Let me start off with the simple positive effects of social media in our society today. Social networking allows us to have great friends and build incredible relations. Social networks happened to start out as a common place for us to connect with friends in an easy and quite simple way. If I can be honest, many people found old friends back in the day when you might have been in high school or even college. Or possibly a younger teenager found there uncle on a social networking site that they have not see in quite sometime. There are many who actually praise social networking for allowing them to connect with family members that they do not get to see very often, and the long lost friends that they haven’t been able to talk to since high school or college. Social networking has definitely been positive in allowing us to connect with people and create better fr... ... middle of paper ... ...s, the image may appear less appealing to an employer doing a background check. In conclusion, although social media sites may be able to have a positive outlook globally by allowing friends and family to stay connect while countries apart, we also have to consider the negative effects that social media has on us locally. We have all lost a sense of communication of face-to-face talking since social media has been introduced into our society. We no longer communicate and are losing our social skills the more we partake in the social media sites. It is time for us to think about the global and local effects of social media and where they are taking our society in today’s world. For all we know, social media could be leading us down a path of serious destruction. We live in a world with technological advances that are rapidly changing right in front of our very eyes.

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