Advantages And Disadvantages Of Social Media Essay

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Mostly everyone in the 21st century uses or has used social media. Social media is the one of the top things that everyone goes to find information or to see what friends and family are doing. If you ask the whole world almost everyone would say they cannot live without social media, or it is the best invention since the wheel. Although social media gives people more interaction and gives out a lot of advantages, if you look past all the advantages you’ll be able to see and understand all the disadvantages. When you do look past the advantages you’ll see that social media gives more harmful influences than good effects. Out of all Social Medias the most popular one that most people use is Facebook. Facebook is a social network that makes it …show more content…

With today’s society people are able to hack into any network that they want and with social networking people can make fraud advertisements that people fall for and with the right information they put into the advertisement people can take steal others’ identity or steal their credit card numbers and use them to buy what they like. People can hack into social networks and find peoples’ personal information and use it against that person. Another disadvantages is that social media is extraordinarily effecting child and adolescents. “Such sites offer today's youth a portal for entertainment and communication and have grown exponentially in recent years. For this reason, it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents.” Says, Gwenn O’Keefe from Pediatrics. Teens these days pay attention to social media more than school, since social media became popular Facebook has overcome teens’ lives and stopped interactions. Now that teens pay attention to social media text messaging is no longer the big teenage obsession. Once teen get on a computer or on their phones they can be on there for several hours without even knowing it. Since people started using social media they have become more worried about what is going on online than what is happening in their own real lives. When bad things happen in the real world people tend to find out from social media. People everywhere look online for news, but I bet if someone’s own grandmother died the first place they’ll find it is on the

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