THE IMPACT OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA

Now days, most people tell about social media. Social media is a very important factor according
to people today. People today cannot be separated anymore with the social media. Social media is starting
from parents, teens and children they all use social media, as age is not an obstacle for those who do not
want to be out of date. The purpose of social media is to facilitate someone to improve information or
share information to the public, however with the presence of social media can cause many negative and
positive impacts for parents, teenagers or children.

In term of Social media, we can know much through social media today and. Almost all people
have smartphone; it is one impact of social media. Its positive impact is to know everything that is inside
and outside the country. We can also communicate with anyone from any part of the world. That is
because, social media users can participate, share, and interact with all the same people using social
media. People will find it easier to find what they are looking for. Looking for pictures, videos, news,
information, even the subject matter or school materials we can access through social media. In addition,
not many people also use social media to sell wares. For instance people sell secondhand goods,
handicrafts, even though selling services. Indeed, by using social media a person can do a job easily and
quickly. Not only that the possibility of growing faster cannot be avoided for a small business. That is
because, with social media someone not need to spend large capital, just need internet connection to be
able to access social media. Especially, now many places that provide free Wi-Fi for visitors, it does not
matter that social media users more and more interested in using social media. Social media is another
world, where everyone can share information freely, both public and private. Various types of social
media that trend among the community such as, FB (Facebook), IG (Instagram), line, twitter, BBM, and
dozens even thousands of other applications has become the first priority of some people today.
Furthermore, social media is often used to improve information that should not be. Besides the positive
impact, there is the negative impacts in social media are factors that are published in social media are also
often inappropriate factors such as photos and videos that smell of pornography. With social media,
people are more intensely to access such useless information. Which is worse, Children can easily access
those factors that pornography through social media.

Does with social media a person can also become lazier to find something and move. Using social
media does make it look easy and fast to complete, but it will also make a person lazy in acting because of
the practicality offered by social media. We as a young generation and parents must use social media
wisely therefore that social media can be useful and does not give negative effects to its users.