Effects Of Social Networking On Society

Social networking is known all across the world and the users are increasing. In our society, people feel like social networking is the best way to communicate and meet new friends or keep in touch with old ones. To some people, it’s just a way to see what other people are doing and to catch up with long distant friends and family members. However, only a handful of people have realized the harms of social networking to our society. This society is so naïve about social networking they don’t think about the impact it has on them and ow its hurting you more than helping you Reports from ProCon’s online article “Are Social Networking Sites Good for our Society” states various way of social networking harms society. Social networking

If there was more supporters and people actually caring about children this would not be going on. As a result, children go weeks and even months of being bullied and tormented at school and social networking. According to Brian Jung’s article “The Negative Effects of Social Media on Society and Individuals” “The devastation of these online attacks can leave deep mental scars.” While other people see this going on and don’t say anything to help them, they ignore it and the victims sit in silence at night contemplating

For example, most students procrastinate on their work because they’re on social networks. He would say “Ok I’m only going to be on here for a minute” then that minute turns into a hour next thing you know he forgets all about the assignment. ProCon reports that “Two-thirds of teachers believe that social media does more to distract students than to help them academically.” Students aren’t the only ones using social networks and getting distracted though. ProCon also reports that “74% of American adults online use social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.” By that being said, adults are getting distracted as well. For instance, when adults are at work and it’s a slow day they are on social networks to make the time to go by faster. This is a fact because you see people all over social networks posting pictures or statuses of how bored they are at work. This causes a decrease in customer satisfaction and productivity. As reported by Brian Jung “The Negative Effect of Social Media on Society and Individuals” “Morse claimed that British companies lost 2.2 billion a year to the social phenomenon.” Overall, social networks is a big distraction to our