Advantages And Disadvantages Of Social Media

Since the social media era was invented technology is improving progressively every year. Social media incorporates the online technology and methods to which people can share content personal opinions and swap different perspectives. Social media can come in different shape and forms like text, images, listening to music, watch movies and many other things While there are numerous advantages using social media, there are many disadvantages such as damaged relationships, living in a virtual world, loss of communication and possible addiction.

Most of us are familiar with this scenario. A group of friends sit down to have a meal together, laughing and catching up on the news but not necessarily interacting with the people in front of them. It is not strange for a couple at home to talk on their smartphones checking Facebook and sending pictures and messages to other people instead of talking to each other. Even with the most dedicated couples, ordinary dialogues are too often replaced with time on endless social media sites. Smartphones and internet are putting up an obstacle between couples even in bed. We carry our smartphones with us everywhere to college, work, gym, and many more places. Smartphones are on us wherever we go and we do not feel how distractive it is. They are demanding our attention many times a day, a call or a notification from email or a thumb up on Facebook. In our digital lives smartphones are part of our lives and they are prioritizing the virtual world over real world. It is important for us to post our party’s pictures on the social media, even sometimes more important the party by itself. Smartphones are making barriers in the way of our relationships causing almost impossible entirely pay attention to ...

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...their cell phone 60 times. Checking smart phone is an addiction students are checking their phone and texting while professor is lecturing. Some people texting while they are driving and they clearly know that they're endangering their lives and the lives of others. Sometimes teenagers are texting to each other even when they are sitting next to each other. Addiction to cell phone can harm our school, incline our relationships with people and increase chance of having car accident.

Nowadays we have access to the highest communication technology and we can talk and text to our friends everywhere in the world. We can read financial news while we are fishing by the river and using our cell phone’s navigation to find our next destination and pin point GPS of that location and send it to others but we should be very cautious and alert cell phones are extremely addictive.