Social media is a tool that is becoming

quite popular these days because of its user-friendly features.

Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and
more are giving people a chance to connect with each other
across distances. In other words, the whole world is at our
fingertips all thanks to social media.
Information and communication technology has changed
rapidly over the past 20 years with a key development
being the emergence of social media.The pace of change
is accelerating. For example, the development of mobile
technology has played an important role in shaping the
impact of social media. Across the globe, mobile devices
dominate in terms of total minutes spent online. This puts
the means to connect anywhere, at any time on any
device in everyone’s hands.
But, everything come with its flaws stands for the quote
“Nothing is Perfect” so do the Social media.

It has various advantages along with hazardous flaws as

well.

Benefits
Social media allows us to fellowship with people from
all corners of the world. It gives us a sense of a global
community where we are no more divided by political
powers but united by our thoughts and interests. We
can always keep in touch with people from all walks of
our life – a boon that seemed impossible until social
media showed up.
It gives the common man a platform to voice with
complete freedom of expression, be it for supporting a
cause or for addressing a national or international
issue of any sensitivity. Business prospects and job
opportunities gear up as social media is a stage with
global audience to showcase our talents.
The term ‘Social Media’ generated a great buzz in
the world of internet users upon its arrival and soon
became a huge thunder that was heard in every nook
and corner of the world. Social Media is considered a
technological marvel and a boon to mankind.

Social Media has become the first and foremost

medium for creating awareness among people for
any social cause. This is an excellent medium for
networking.
 Social Media Websites has the ability to reach
millions of people across nations in an unimaginable
time frame.
Social Media Marketing is currently the most widely
used strategies by many companies to improve their
business.

Disadvantages
Addictive use of social media is found to be the
main cause of depressionamong many people. It
disrupts the sleeping patterns in adults and may also
lessen the mental growth of children.
Social Media hacks are a great threat to one’s
personal information.
Not every information may be correct here. Social
media is a platform which holds all news about almost
everyone. However, it is not important that every
single information which has conveyed through social
media should be accurate. There are times when
people receive wrong information only through this
medium and spread like wildfire.
You meet new people, but they are majorly not real
ones. Being on social media platform looks very cool
and surprising to people. But, the inside reality is
always behind the curtain every time. It is one place
which makes you meet so many fake people. Not
everyone you bond with is a genuine person. Many
relationships have the signature of social media
contribution and more than that major heartbreaks are
also happening on social media.
It is good until you become addicted to social media.
The social media addiction or sedation is real. People,
especially youngsters go crazy on this platform. Their
day usually begins with Social Media and ends by 2,
or 3 am on social media, which is pathetic and life
spoiling.
Social media has a good share in negatively
impacting us as well on various grounds. The most
affected of the lot is considered to the teens who are
also considered as the most vulnerable ones.
Cyberbullying – it is considered that a large portion of
the youngsters has progressed toward becoming
casualties of the cyberbullying due to the excessive
due to the excessive use of social media. Since
anybody can make a phoney record and do anything
without being followed, it has turned out to be very
simple for anybody to menace on the Internet.
Dangers, terrorizing messages and bits of gossip can
be sent to the majority to make uneasiness and
mayhem in the general public.
Hacking – Personal information and security, which is
so readily available on social media platforms can
without much of a stretch be hacked and shared on
the internet. On previous occasions as well, some
facebook, as well as twitter accounts, have been
hacked allowing the hacker to post information and
data that have influenced the lives of many people.
This is one of the risky impediments of the web-based
 life and each client is encouraged to guard their own
information and records to evade such mishaps.

CONCLUSION
Social media is a really convenient and important communicate
network for all the people nowadays. We can use it to know
friends and keep contact with friends that came from different
countries. We can also share our ideas so quickly so that all the
things could develop so fast because people could tell us their
ideas and we could improve it immediately. We could also learn
new things on social media by watching or reading the things
that people shared onto the social media. People could also sell
things on social media freely which could reduce the
expenditure of advertisements. 

There are more advantages for using social media, however,

there is always advantages and disadvantages for a thing. As
social media is too convenient for people, almost most of them
don't even have to 'speak out' to communicate with people. No
longer, people will lost their communication skills. The more
serious problem is many people utilised the power of social
media and used it to bully someone. The power of social media
is also same as the one in real life. A little of them used social
media to do things that against the law, which is a fool
behaviour. 

Social media changed our life so much. Our life became more
convenient because social media is a very useful tool for us in
21st century, it could help us to improve our life. However, we
have to aware of how we use them. If we could use the social
media smartly, having social media will become a good change
for us.