Billions of people around the world use social media to share information and make

connections. On a personal level, social media allows you to communicate with

friends and family, learn various things, develop your interests and be entertained.
On a professional level, you can use social media to broaden your knowledge in a
particular field.

On the one hand, if we are talking about the educational arena, these sites enhance
learning by influencing students. A good example of this is the research that pupils
do when they have questions or homework. Having a platform on which you can
find any aspect of everything you can think of makes it very accessible to discover
information. On the internet, you can find erroneous facts that deceive your
knowledge.

On the other hand, social media helps you to be connected with other people even
if they are not near your area. For instance, if you have friends living in another
country, you can still communicate with them through websites. To make it even
more realistic, you can facetime each other. In spite of how authentic it may seem,
nothing is comparable to face-to-face meetings and contact.

On balance, social media can be more advantageous when used for education, since
books are not used as much nowadays to discover information that can benefit
students. Also, young people have a lot of free time in which they can communicate
with their friends in real life.