The Importance Of Social Media

One click is all you need to exchange ideas, share information and connect to almost anyone around the globe. It’s the social media’s power. Social media is defined as “a group of internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of web 2.0” according to Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein (“The Wealth of Networks”, 2006). Not only helps the users to know what’s going on around the world, social media also improve the people’s knowledge level. The first email was sent in 1971; today you could send and receive mail or even chat with friends and relatives on handhelds like mobile phones, iPads and other smart devices. In addition to all this you can now create your own websites. Social media has come a very long way these past few decades to become necessary in a man’s everyday life. This is important to know because social media benefited our planet a lot like creating rights, became a credited source of gaining information and acquiring knowledge and finally helped variously in making people come closer to each other.

Maintaining human rights is a must in every country. Unfortunately the rights of young gentlemen and ladies these days are getting vague. However, social media recently helped in constructing a bridge for people to build up their rights through computer screens and web pages. On the 8th of June, A man by the name Wael Ghonim from Egypt living in Dubai, a 29 year old Google marketing executive was checking his Facebook account and came along a disturbing photo of an Egyptian man beaten down in Egypt by the police and the man’s life has been taken away. Wael horrified by what he saw decided to start a Facebook page about the incident (“Spring Awakening”, 2012). The govern...

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...for entertaining themselves which will also waste lots of their time. But thank god we have twitter where they can benefit from learning and gain knowledge, get entertained and remain updated with the latest news all by simply scrolling down through a web page.

In conclusion, there is no doubt that the pros of social media tend to be much more than the cons and therefore more effort must be put in to develop such a technology unlike what some think about banning it because it’s a very terrible thing. If it does have such a negative impact on the society then it would have not grown in the last couple of decades to become what it is right now. A safe, simple and easy way to keep in touch with relatives, friends and family, to get educated and gain knowledge, to get entertained and finally to remain up to date with the most reliable news from all around this globe.