The Positive Effects Of Social Networking: How Websites Affects Our Lives

Every day, thousands of people are logging on to social networking websites. Some gambling games, conversations with friends, and some subsequent updates about his life, but one thing that users do not realize is the effect social media is having on society. Websites like Facebook and Twitter affect our lives negatively, positively, and much more than we think. We all have our different reasons for liking social media, but not always realize the significant impact they are having on our lives.

The first effect is intimidation. As these sites become more popular, the number of children increases cyberbullied. According to recent studies, 43% of children in the United States have been bullied online in the last year ( "Stop Cyberbullying before

social networking sites, some more than others, are often used as a kind of self-expression and creativity (Pizano). For example, blogging websites allow users to make their blogs customizable and choose the things they share in it. Twitter allows users to change and customize your background colors. Facebook now allows users to upload an image of their choice to display on top of your online profile. Apart from customizing the appearance of online profiles, content that users post on social networking sites it is also a form of personal expression. Some people may seem to always have fun states, while another always be placed in quotation marks, while other publications always lyrics, and other simply posts updates about their daily lives. Users of social networking sites often use their online profile as a reflection of themselves. This is one of the positive effects of social networks. creativity, self-expression is encouraged, and allows people to get inspired and define themselves. They use it as a way to differentiate themselves from the crowd. It is held to be different in social networks because it makes everything more interesting. Social networking is allowing some users to make friends with people who might not consider talking to himself, and allowing people to see some views that may not have considered before. It has the potential to bring us all close together and gives us all a more open attitude of mind each

Years ago, when a natural disaster or other major event would happen somewhere in the world, we would expect to see on the news later that night. Even then, we would not see a lot of pictures and details of the incident. Now, we realize within seconds of it happening. With the tsunami in Japan and the earthquake in Haiti, we realized right away and quickly saw the devastating damage that was done. Much of this was due to social networks. Since social networking is worldwide, someone close to the accident could peep this a thousand or so followers. The news spread from person to person, leaving thousands and thousands more people know what is going on. This increases awareness and allows us to get more help to these faster places. Social media makes us more aware of what is happening in our world, and helps people from different countries know each other and become friends. This is an opportunity that would never have had a few years ago. Social networks are connecting us, and dissemination of goodness and knowledge worldwide. This allows us to overcome the distance put between us and allows us to unite together. This may be the most positive effect of social networks. We are