Does Social Media Improve or Hurt Our Society
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Does Social Media Improve or Hurt Our Society
Introduction
Social media is a platform of interaction that has originated in the 21st century. Examples of social media platforms include; WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Other sites include skype, virtual systems, and telegram. These platforms are crucial for sending photos, making new friends, sharing videos, and accessing information. In the early century, people’s interactions were based on one meeting, writing letters, and telegrams. However, with the tremendous evolution of technology, people’s businesses became instrumental by the internet. For instance, most social media users are youths who are located in various countries worldwide. Social media has had challenges with users, but it has proven to be more useful than destructive.
Social media platforms have been instrumental in the quest of youths seeking jobs from different employers. For example, the LinkedIn site is popular with millions of job seekers who upload their resumes and, in turn, receive references from diverse clients (Utz & Johannes, 2016). Consequently, many people get jobs without physically visiting offices and companies that are miles away from residential places. Therefore, social media has proven to be an efficient source in the economic transformation of the community. Again, due to the youth’s financial challenges, social media saves time and money that can be used in other income-generating opportunities.
Facebook, a popular social media platform, is useful for retrieving information from anywhere in the world (Utz, &Johannes, 2016). Before this era, it was difficult to get a story lost due to damaged sources of information. Nevertheless, with Facebook, data is accessed from friends of various Facebook accounts. Above all, social media has made life easy for employers and employees worldwide. Monitoring tasks, office management, and meetings can also be run by skype and google zoom meetings. Moreover, it is easier to post a memorandum on a WhatsApp group popular in the current world. Consequently, an office can be run instead of the early years that bosses must be physically present.
On the other hand, social media has played a significant role in connecting people from different continents in the social sector. For instance, more than two billion people use social media daily (Sabermajid et al., 2019). Therefore, it only takes a few minutes to share experiences and make friends. As a result, there is a cohesion between people from different ethnic, race, and religious backgrounds. Furthermore, Facebook has proven to be vital in self-motivation by sharing information between friends of the other gender (Sabermajid et al., 2019). For example, people on these platforms can share confidential information with users’ miles away from their residence places. Hence, socialization using Facebook has not only promoted self-esteem but limited psychological torture among youths.
Adolescents use social media for self-presentation through the ways they choose to present themselves online by posting photos and sharing aspects of their lives. Thus, skills are gained to deal with perceptions from people outside of the family’s circle. ( Uhls et al., 2017) therefore, the youths discover aspects essential for self-identity and ways to handle criticism from social media bullying. It should be noted that Facebook and Twitter platforms are composed of people from diverse backgrounds. So, the youths are vulnerable to criticism based on photos and statutes that are updated. What is more, social media tools are crucial to children with sexual identity crises and learning problems (Uhls et al., 2017). Therefore, interactions with friends are venues for comfort and self-confidence.
Social media platforms have been vital for politicians’ communication to their domination zones in the political sector. Besides, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter are occasionally used to pass information about government projects, job opportunities, and achievements (Howard et al., 2017). Therefore, data get is given to many people over a wide geographical area on short notice. Still, during the reign of Donald Trump, the USA president, Twitter was the official site in his government (Howard et al., 2017). As a result, most matters related to politics were available on Twitter pages. Furthermore, Facebook is a popular site for campaigns and laying out manifestos to the voters.
Again, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp have enabled users to express opinions on different matters regarding leaders, the government, and the constitution (Yoo et al., 2017). Consequently, social media has provided opportunities for people to promote diverse politics with objective ideas. Furthermore, online platforms are forums for citizens to share ideas about governments in their countries, thus promoting democracy (Yoo et al., 2017). Therefore, cohesion and togetherness are witnessed in the formation of governments. Besides, environmental protection solutions are gained from social media platforms by acquiring interpersonal skills Yoo et al., 2017. As a result, youths worldwide are allowed to participate in forums that protect nature.
Social media has played a fundamental role in the e-commerce sector to various continents worldwide. Today, on social media platforms, entrepreneurs can efficiently market goods of different varieties. Similarly, clients get an opportunity to order the items and recommend them to other social media users. Correspondingly, in the wine industry, social media has played a significant role in the advertisement of different prestigious brands, contrary to the days without technology (Tomazic, 2017). As a result, consumers and producers in the 21st century have efficiently conducted business without physically visiting business premises.
Correspondingly, in the wine industry, social media has played a crucial role by providing tourists with an opportunity. For example, interested parties from different parts of the world occasionally meet by sharing their skills ideas. (Tomazic, 2017). Consequently, social media platforms have enabled nations to be gain an economic boost by a collection of foreign exchange. Therefore social media platforms are the most efficient tools for carrying out advertisements’, marketing, and consumer connections.
Due to Covid -19, social media has played a significant role in accommodations and travels to tourists worldwide. For example, tourists’ marketers have opted to use virtual communication to track clients (Stankov & Gretzel, 2020). As a result, despite the pandemic foreign exchange is earned in countries that have tourist attraction sites. Besides, tourism goods have also been delivered with the coordination of smartphone applications and social media platforms. (Stankov & Gretzel, 2020). Consequently, tourists who are fascinated by particular products can access them in foreign countries.
With the current pandemic Covid-19, social media has played a crucial role in informing citizens of events’ turn. For example, the local and national government has used Facebook and WhatsApp to educate citizens on safety measures. Again, most people in WhatsApp groups have been informed of the latest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths. With the availability of the internet, WhatsApp is the most used platform among all age brackets s.
Social media has made life easy and convenient for many people globally, provided there is technology. Also, it has positively impacted the economic, social, and political sectors. Social media has made it efficient for workers to gain jobs and employers in the financial industry to select suitable candidates. On the other hand, the social sector has positively impacted friends by sharing their experiences. Above all, politicians and governments have used social media to pass information and govern citizens in the political sectors. In conjunction with technology, social media has, Therefore, the elderly in society should join the youths and focus on social media’s benefits rather than the negative impact.
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