Friday 30 October 2015

Social Networking impact on our young society

Social Networks take an important place on many young people's life. For example Facebook has 1.5 billion active users! So many people! Internet and social networks are growing constantly. There are many examples of this growing such us Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat YouTube.
Young society use them constantly; to watch a video on YouTube, to speak with their friends by Whats App or Facebook, to share their photos by Instagram, to know what is happening around the world by Twitter...
I also use them, my main social network is Twitter. You can use this social network to speak with your friends, upload and share photos and many other usages. I use it to know what is happening around me, I choose what I want to know and I follow it. For example, I like basketball so I follow NBA and basketball news accounts so I can be informed about what is happening in my likes.




I also use Whatsapp constantly to communicate with my friends.
YouTube is also a common social network in my life. Instead of watching a boring TV program you can watch a video of the content that you like on YouTube. You can watch series, documentaries, game plays, craft or cooking tutorials, you can listen music... It has many usages and I found it useful.

It has many advantages such as years ago we used to work a big, heavy and uncomfortable encyclopedia .Whereas, nowadays you can get information very easily from social networks like Wikipedia. Also you can chat instantly with a friend located wherever around the world using many social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram....You can also hear the news whenever you want in social networks like Twitter, Flip board .You can use them to work, LinkedIn is an example of this and you can also find a job very easily. You can ask a question on a social network such as Yahoo and many people are going to help you by answering to fix the problem. You can share information and also get it in real time using Drive, Dropbox etc. Also you can write a article in your blog like I'm doing now. 
On the other hand, face to face communication is decreasing because of the social networks as you can see in this webpage. Maybe a person can speak with you with false identity, a person aged for example 40 can tell you that he is a young teenager. Internet and social networks create a lot of lies. Cyber bullying and Crimes Against Children are increasing because of the previous disadvantage. It’s a big time waster ,it's calculated that young people use social networks for more than two hours daily.

Two hours of social media a day are linked with depression in young people.They can steal your private information, nowadays this risk is increasing because of the big use of social networks.





As a conclusion, we can say that social networks are very important in young people. We have to be careful when we are using the social networks, because as we have seen it has many risks and disadvantages. Although, if we use it correctly we can get many benefits that may help us in our life.




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