What is Social media / definition / Advantages - Side effects




In modern times, social media has become an important part of life, including a lot of features, such as providing information, recreation, and educating.

 From 1990 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, many sites came into existence and began to function as a new social network. The first of this globe dot work was followed by networking sites like Geo-sites, tripods, to make the web-space available to people at a very low price. For the first time in 1995, the website called classmates dot com provided people with an opportunity to connect with each other via email. In today's time Google's email and Gmail system is the sophisticated form of the corresponding system.

What is Social media / definition

Social media is a media that is different from the rest of the media (print, electronic and parallel media). Social media creates a virtual world through the Internet that the person using can access using a platform of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), etc.

 Social media is an unconventional media. This creates a virtual world that can make access through the Internet. Social media is a huge network that can connect the whole world. It's a very good medium of communication. It covers the exchange of information at a fast pace, including the reports of every field.
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.
- Bill Gates

 Social media plays a positive role that can be made economically, socially, culturally and politically prosperous, including any person, entity, group and country. Social media has created a number of developmental activities to enrich democracy, thereby increasing the unity, integrity, secularism, socialist qualities of any country.


What is Social media / definition / Advantages - Side effects
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Social media is a great platform for spreading popularity, where a person can make himself or her product more popular. The trailer of films, TV programmers are also being broadcast through social media today. Video and audio chats are also accessible through social media, including Facebook, Whats App, Instagram, and some of the major platforms.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
- Ethan Zuckerman
Some people use it incorrectly when social media plays a positive role. By using social media unfairly, such people try to divide people into abusive feelings. Misleading and negative information is shared through social media so that the public mind has an adverse effect. Many times, it is so much that the government gets stricter on the use of social media and banned social media so as not to execute any major incident under the guise of an anti-social element or movement.
Just as there are two sides of a coin, there are two sides of the social media as follows-


Advantages of social media

Instant notices can be transmitted with the help of social sites. Your friends may be provided with or receiving information about the upcoming festivals, celebrations and forthcoming parties.
If a user of the same sites is your friend online and can also make messages, videos, or audio calls in real time. In this system, whenever a user opens their profile. So they can quickly obtain information about what status is uploaded to their friends online or when they were online.
  • Photos, videos, information, documents, etc. can be easily shared
  • Provides news easily
  • No one in any way owns any content.
  • For all classes, such as educated class or illiterate class
  • It collects information in one place
  • It is the medium of communication at a very fast pace.


Side effects of social media

On the one hand, social media is becoming the most popular resource in today's time, and there are many disadvantages on the other. The greatest loss of social media in today's time is the youth addiction. Whether Facebook or Whats App is the first thing to do before you wake up and sleep at night.



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The second biggest threat of social media in today's time is the hackers. Whether it is a small person's account or a large figure, the information on the social media in today's time is not 100 per cent secure. Here we are going to tell you some tips that you can do to further strengthen your social networking site account.



Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.
- Fabrizio Moreira 


  • Cyber crime is the biggest problem associated with social media.
  • There is absence of the original source from having no owner of the content.
  • Privacy is completely broken.
  • Can spread confusion by editing photos or videos that sometimes cause a riot-like apprehension.
  • Information can be broken down in any way.
  • It also provides a lot of information, many of which are misleading.
  • The format of any information can be made by changing the way it is not a reality.

 There was a time when access to social media was limited to just a few classes. But in today's time, anyone who has a smartphone is not far from social media. A housewife or a working people, a child or an elder, keeps all of them from the world according to their need. A great way of connecting people together can be none other than that. But for some people, it is necessary to be like wind and water, and without it they feel incomplete. Although social media keeps you updated with a person or event that is sitting anywhere in the world, there is not much to do with anything. It has become more addictive than the habit of people who have reduced good effects and more side effects.

Some days, I'll be very down and out, but you won't be able to tell, really, because I don't express that side of myself on social media. That's the side of myself that I express through music.
- Lil Peep
Do not make this invention of science your disease. Suppose you can join the world with its issues, but to get the experience you have to stay away from it.Otherwise, you will remain confined to the room and remain far away from the world.  So, use social media to connect yourself to the world.