Social Media Disadvantages

“Does online social media make us feel isolated?” This question is becoming really common nowadays since technology and the Internet have become a part that cannot be missed in our lives. Many social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat have been really popular and had a big amount of people using in the world. However, as many social media was invented, there are two different viewpoints on the advantages and disadvantages of them. A lot of people suppose that the invention of social media is very beneficial for us because it expands our horizons online and connects people together from all over the world. In the opposite, some people worries that social media somehow distracts us from our real-life relationships since

They assume that social media is extremely crucial for us because it puts us in touch with people we lost touch with. Besides, they think that social networking helps us to understand more about people from the world outside because it “brought us closer together as a society by increasing our communication with each other and understanding of each other with respect to greater society and culture” (Dmitriy Kozlov). Obviously, I do not believe in that. The connections that people get from online social media, I suppose, they are not real-life relationships. As we all know, social network goes along with chatting or doing things through a computer’s screen. I understand that there is a possibility of getting real friends from virtual friends; however, there is also a possibility that we will get into social media too much and get away from our own community. Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University has stated based on her research on how technology affects people: “But the time and effort we put into our virtual worlds limit the time to connect and especially to communicate on a deeper level in our real world” (Mary Johnson). Furthermore, social media not only reduce real-life connections but also bring dangers to a person’s private information on the sites. Because the users mostly are young people, “yet they have had little experience with the right to privacy” (Sherry Turkle, 341). Hence, with little knowledge of privacy, those people do not know that confidential information on social media can easily lead to account fraud, identity theft, and “Putting your personal information in the care of others, no matter how diligently their stewardship, increases your risk of that information getting into the hands of third parties” (Alan Norton, 373). Thus, because social media bring us more virtual relationships but less real-life ones and create