Negative And Negative Of Social Media

When it comes to the topic of social networking, most of us will readily agree that it completely changed our society as a whole. After all, ever since the beginning of social networking with bulletin board systems, our society has rapidly increased the amount of communication through social networks in a relatively short period of time. Now, from LinkedIn to Facebook to Twitter, there is a social network for all aspects of a person’s life. However, this agreement on social networking usually ends on the question of whether the change was positive or not. Whereas various people consider social media to be destructive for our society because it lowers people’s- particularly young people’s- chances of success significantly by providing distractions,

Indeed, some people view social media negatively because it creates new and enticing distractions to lower productivity. For instance, according to David Schepp, “51% of American workers think work productivity suffers because of social media.” Essentially, Schepp is saying that to over half of American workers think social media causes low productivity. If the people who work in an everyday setting say social networking is a problem, it must be true. Moreover, even the people in charge of businesses view social media as a cause of decreased productivity. To take a case in point, Sophos, a computer company, states that “productivity continues to be the dominant reason for companies to block social networks (a third of companies say this is the reason they block Facebook” in its report on security threats. To put it bluntly, even corporations (along with individual workers) view social media as an efficient timewaster, resulting in the banning of many social networking websites. However, although it is true that social media can cause a decline in productivity when it is not used properly, “almost 90% of big companies using social media have reported ‘at least one measurable business benefit” (Mullaney). That is, almost all corporations say that social media has benefitted their business. If their employees were getting so distracted, causing an extreme decrease in productivity like the oppositions says, then most businesses wouldn’t report a