THE POSITIVE IMPACTS

AND PRO’S
OF SOCIAL MEDIA
 Group PRO:

POSSIBLE CLAIMS (PRO)

(Pro):
Thanks for the time that given to us to participate in this debate. Let me introduce my team:
1. My name is “You’re name” as the first speaker and the third speaker. I’ll deliver our reason to be
pro with this topic and conclude our opinions.

We choose to be pro with this topic because nowadays social networking is very popular.
There are many positive and negative impacts from this site in the internet. After discussing this
topic, we hope that we can increase the positive side and decrease the bad effect.

(Pro):
All we know that social network has very much positive impact. In the educational sector, there are
some benefits, such as for the learning discussion media. Many students sometimes feel like they’re
not able to solve their task. So, they can solve their problem by discussions in social network with
their friends or another people who could help.

(Contra):
Social network has many bad effects for students. In education sectors, it can reduce time for study.
Through the Internet and other social networking sites, students will forget about the time. They
waste their time in social networking. In the social-media we can also find some unnecessary data
due to lack of supervision from parents, such as porn images/videos that should not be seen by
teenagers.

(Pro):
Another advantage is the social network can increase the students’ creativity. Given this social
networking, students accelerated to create a work to attract the attention of other users. That way,
students will be stimulated to increase their skills. For example, by writing an article, or post on a
blog. It will increase communication among users, even enrich language skills because of the
possibility to make contact with the youth from different parts of the world.

(Contra):
Level of language comprehension becomes worse. For teenagers, there are no rules of spelling and
grammar on the social networking site. They just make their own without caring about good
grammar in communicating. It is slowly but surely killing the good communication skills in the real
world, moreover it kills their writing skills according to the standard and correct spelling in school.
 (Pro):
From the lifestyle sectors we can also find a lot of advantages from the social network. Through the
social network, students can develop a sense of independence and increase positive self-expression.
We know that nowadays, there are many kinds of groups in social network that offer us to join them.
We can independently join the group if we feel that it brings the positive impact to ourselves. For
example, we can join a group that has an activity for helping victims of natural disasters.
In addition, social network can increase solidarity among users. Students can communicate with
other users continuously, so there will be a high sense of brotherhood among them. Besides,
social network also can help to increase critical thinking and making decision.

(Contra):
It is known by everyone that social networking overload can also give very bad effect to students’
lifestyle. They become lazy to communicate in the real world, because they are too interested with
their new friends in social networking. At last, this will make students are more selfish. Moreover,
they won’t even empathize with their real-life environment. Their sensitivity to the surrounding
environment is murdered by the pleasure to their friends on social networking sites.

(Pro):
To conclude, social network has a lot of advantages in students’ life. Social network has also made
students’ life easier in many sectors, such as education, life style, and relationship among people.
Bad impacts can easily be prevented by using it wisely.

(Contra):
From those arguments, we can conclude that social network is really not good for students. There are
many bad impacts not only in the education and lifestyle, but also in other life sector. Until now,
there are a lot of victims of the crime of the social networks. Almost all students waste their time to
do something that useless for themselves. It can destroy their brain’s work. And the worst thing is
that it can destroy the moral attitude of our country.

(Pro):
To the speakers from negative side, if you don’t agree with the social networking service in
educational sector, will you be able to receive a lot of knowledge from books as wide as what social
network gives? How?

(Contra):
Of course, we can. Each book has different information and details. So that, as long as we read
several books for our references, the information’s gotten will also be wide. Besides, we all know
that information’s from internet are mostly taken from books, right?

(Contra):
To the speakers from affirmative side, how if the Learning Discussion Media that you discussed
make students having no effort to study and answer their tasks by themselves yet asking all of their
task to be done by people in the Discussion Forum (a.k.a. cheating)?
 (Pro):
Nowadays, teachers will be more active in social networking media. They can check either their
students copy paste the answers completely from internet or take the explanation or details only to
answer their tasks that they do not understand.

From this debate, we can conclude that actually the social networks have a lot of benefits for students
if we use it properly.
 Opinions:

According to Ashley Lorenzo of Pulong Santol National High School, “For me the
good effects of social media is the better communication anytime and everywhere. This
helps us keep in touch with the people we may not see regularly and also awareness of
what is happening in society, we can easily get updates on our country and the whole
world. I also believe this is not all about the internet, it depends on us, on how you will
use it in your personal life and how you will use it in your studies. The Internet helped
us to make it easy but still we gained knowledge. We need to use it properly; it helps us
to make it easy but it doesn't mean that we will depend on it every time.”

As stated by Bea Bianca Reyes a student in Holy Angel University, I think social media
can help us to increase the level of our language comprehension because of the videos
we have watched and articles we read, it can be a great help in our vocabulary. Also, I
think nowadays people became dependent on the internet, as they always look for the
internet and use their gadgets frequently. But I agree that time management is being left
behind because of social media as people spend a lot of their time with social media.

Based to the citation of Marie Dela Cruz a student from Tarlac State University, in a
world where social media is one of the top hits, I think the positive effects include first,
the improved connectivity wherein we can easily connect or communicate with others
by only using different social media platform. Second, access to information wherein it
is already accessible to cite sources to get informed. Lastly, the opportunities for self-
expression wherein we can freely say or voice out the things that are very significant
such as in the government, especially nowadays.
Laws/Republic Acts:

In this regard, Congress enacted R.A. 9995 also known as (Anti-Photo and Video
Voyeurism Act of 2009). This Republic Act is geared towards protecting the privacy,
honor, dignity and integrity of a person. Investigative Directive No. 2016-09 issued by
National Headquarters, PNP Directorate for investigation and Directive Management,
Camp Crame, Quezon City listed RA 9995 as a special law that addresses Gender-
Based Violence or grant special protection to vulnerable sectors.

Under Sec. 3 of RA 9995, photo or video voyeurism means the act of taking photo or
video coverage of a person or group of persons performing sexual act or any similar
activity or of capturing an image of the private area of a person or persons without the
latter’s consent, under circumstances in which such person/s has/have a reasonable
expectation of privacy. It also includes the act of selling, copying, reproducing,
broadcasting, sharing, showing or exhibiting the photo or video coverage or
recordings of such sexual act or similar activity through VCD/DVD, internet, cellular
phones and similar means or device without the written consent of the person/s
involved, notwithstanding that consent to record or take photo or video coverage of
same was given by such persons.

Republic Act 9995: This law penalizes anyone who captures an image of a private area
of a person without their consent and under circumstances in which the person has a
reasonable expectation of privacy.

According to the Republic Act 10627 or Anti-Bullying Act of 2013, For purposes of
this Act, "bullying" shall refer to any severe or repeated use by one or more students of
a written, verbal or electronic expression, or a physical act or gesture, or any
combination thereof, directed at another student that has the effect of actually causing
or placing the latter in reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to his
property; creating a hostile environment at school for the other student; infringing on
the rights of the other student at school; or materially and substantially disrupting the
education process or the orderly operation of a school; such as, but not limited to, also
according to the Section 2-D of the same Republic Act, Cyber-bullying or any bullying
done through the use of technology or any electronic means is still against RA 10627.
The Republic Act No.11930 is primarily a penal law seeking to punish the online
sexual abuse or exploitation of children (OSAEC). OSAEC is defined as “the use of
ICT as a means to abuse and/or exploit children sexually, which includes cases in
which offline child abuse and/or exploitation is combined with an online component.
This can also include, but is not limited to the production, dissemination and
possession of [child sexual abuse or exploitation material or child sexual abuse
material] CSAEM; online grooming of children for sexual purposes; sexual extortion
of children, sharing image-based sexual abuse; commercial sexual exploitation of
children; exploitation of children through online prostitution; and live-streaming of
sexual abuse, with or without the consent of the victim: Provided, That OSAEC may
Abe used interchangeably with online child sexual abuse exploitation or abuse
(OCSEA).”

CSAEM, on the other hand, “refers to any representation whether offline, or by,
through or with the use of ICT, by means of visual, video, audio, written, or any
combination thereof, by electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic or any other
means, of a child engaged or involved in real or simulated sexual activities, or
depicting acts of sexual abuse or exploitation of a child as a sexual object. It shall also
include materials that focus on the genitalia or other private body parts of a child. For
purposes of this Act, CSAE, may interchangeably be referred to as CSAM.”
Extra Information’s:

According to Mesfin Awoke Bekalu, research scientist in the Lee Kum Sheung Center
for Health and Happiness at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. We found
that routine social media use—for example, using social media as part of everyday
routine and responding to content that others share—is positively associated with all
three health outcomes. Emotional connection to social media—for example, checking
apps excessively out of fear of missing out, being disappointed about or feeling
disconnected from friends when not logged into social media—is negatively associated
with all three outcomes.

Is social media helping to support you when you’re stressed? Are you building
reciprocal relationships with other individuals through your social networks, though
both weak and strong ties? If you feel like the answers to those questions are yes,
you’re on the right track toward flourishing online. Studies have found that this is
completely possible: For example, German Neubaum and his colleagues found in a
2014 paper that social media produces short-term positive emotions and offers social
support through rapid emotional relief after crises. Two larger systematic reviews, one
focused on breast cancer patients and another examining general social support, found
that social media can indeed provide real comfort and friendship. As quoted by
European researchers Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein.