INTRODUCTION

Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using
highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. It is an internet-based form of
communication. Social media platform allow users to have conversations, share information and
create web content or in other ways it supports human need for human interaction. It supports the
democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers
into content producers. Most of the users usually access social media services via web-based
apps on desktops and laptops, or download services that offer social media functionality to their
mobile services such as smartphones and tablets.

There are several types of online platforms classified under the vast umbrella of social media.
Social networking websites allow users to build web pages featuring personal portfolios and
interests. These pages are used to connect with friends, colleagues and other users in order to
share media, content and communications. Examples of social networks include Facebook,
LinkedIn, Twitter and Blog. Visual social networks are becoming more popular, with Instagram
having now surpassed Twitter in its amount of users. Data has shown that a tweet that includes
an image has a 150% more chance of being shared. There are also new networks such as
Snapchat, WhatsApp and TikTok that are slowly growing in terms of popularity, especially with
the younger generations.

Social media is accessible for all ages from children to seniors. It plays important role in today’s
life. The numbers for social media statistics for Malaysia shows that there were 28.00 million
social media users in Malaysia in January 2021 and equivalent to 86% of the population. This
number increased by 2.0 million (+7.7%) between 2020 and 2021. The statistics also shows that
the social media usage by the kids were highest with 25.9 million (79.7%) users. Followed by the
youth with 23.4 million (71.9) and the adult 22.1 million (67.8%). Through the researches,
human nowadays tend to spend their time or activities through social media and made the social
is part of the life that cannot separable.
POINT

 Social media is an internet-based form of communication and can be access through

laptop and mobile devices. Social media is accessible for all ages from children to
seniors. However social media have its own positive and negative impacts toward people.
Most of the people use social media as a platform to communicate while there are certain
people who also use social media as a site to do bad work.

Media social can effect in good and bad ways. It depends on human how to use the social
media. As human being, manner towards each other thru online should be counted. In a
nut shell, social media should be used wisely regardless of age.