Impacts Of Social Media On Society

By – Darshit Sonani

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Table Of ContentIntroductionWhat is Social Media & Social Network?Types Of Social Media & Who is On Social

Media?Social Networking Sites & How it Works?Effects Of Social Media On SocietyAnalysisConclusion

Introduction Social network is “A social structure made of nodes (which are

generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations…” With the rapid growth of people who use or have access to the Internet, social networking websites are a must for the Internet community to stay in touch with each other. Social networking web sites help people keep in touch with old friends, make new friends, distribute new data or product, and many more aspects of our everyday lives.

What is Social Media?Social media refers to online tools and services which

allow an exchange of ideas, information, videos, pictures, and graphics — just about anything you can name.

Social media also allows easy sharing and distribution of existing content to others so that professional work can be shared through networks.

What is Social Network?We define social network sites as web-based services that allow

individuals to:1. Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded

system, 2. Articulate a list of other users with whom they share a

connection, and 3. View and traverse their list of connections and those made by

others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.

Types Of Social MediaBookmarking Sites and Social News Sites (Digg)Blogs and Microblogs (Twitter, Tumblr) Social Networking Sites (Facebook, Instagram,

Snapchat, Google+)Shopping Sites (Amazon, Flipkart)Multimedia Sharing (YouTube, Flickr)Virtual Worlds (World of Warcraft, Second Life )

Who’s On Social Media?1.Organizations

2.Individuals

Working Of SNSWhile SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical

features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display an articulated list of Friends who are also users of the system.

Profiles are unique pages where one can type oneself into being. After joining an SNS, an individual is asked to fill out forms containing a series of questions.

Working Of SNS

The profile is generated using the answers to these questions, which typically include descriptions such as age, location, interests, and an "about me" section.

Most sites also encourage users to upload a profile photo. Some sites allow users to enhance their profiles by adding multimedia content or modifying their profile's look and feel. Others, such as Facebook, allow users to add modules ("Applications") that enhance their profile

Effects Of Social Media1. Positive Effect2. Negative Effect

Positive EffectsSocial media helps strengthen relationships among teens. Every

People have friends who they have not seen since school .They don't have to worry about losing touch, because social media has it covered.

As an teenager it's also very important to understand what's going on around us rather than just knowing what's going with friends. According to the article "What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News." 70% of teens receive most of the news stories they read or watch via Facebook or Twitter.

Positive EffectsWe can study on Social Sites And get merit certificates

online. A student can learn many new things by liking useful pages on Facebook, watching educational videos on YouTube and by following on twitter.

Negative EffectsAs every coin has two sides and addiction to anything is

always bad. Being on social networking site means one should be social, but we are social more on networking site and are keeping ourselves away from social life. These networking sites are changing the mindsets of the youths.

Always connected: Today teens don’t know how to disconnect. Social media has allowed them to take their life online and instead of saying goodbye to friends at school and waiting to see them the next day, they just go home and jump on their favorite social media network and interact with them for the rest of the day.

Negative Effects

• Cyber crimes :The immediacy provided by social media is available to predators as well as friends. Teens are more comfortable doing stuff behind their screens than they are in person. This leads to case of cyber crimes.

Analysis India has 125 million Internet users, on an average, Indian web

users spend 26 minutes online each day.87.1 million users experience Internet on their smart phones and

this number is expected to grow to 165 million by 2015.Age group of 15-24 are the highest number of social media users,

on an average Facebook is visited atleast thrice a day.67 percent of the teenagers are friends with strangers!!Cases of Cyber bullying, Fake Profiles are increased in a huge

number. Thoughts of the youth are being manipulated with increase in use

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What is Social Media Doing?Social media’s objective is to make profit at the

expense of others addiction. Initially social media make money at low level with less addiction and as its profit increase people get more addicted to it.

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ConclusionSocial Networking Sites are of great help in the youth’s

daily life. However, it has positive and negative effects which depend on how a person will utilize it.

Social Networking Sites can benefit us in numerous ways and that it can make life easier for us. However, we should keep in mind that everything in life should be taken in moderation - in this case, done in moderation.

We should always set our priorities straight and remember that despite being given all that we need, a little extra work wouldn’t do us harm.

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