Impact of Social Media on Modern Society

Social media have transformed the face of communication. With the help of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, people can get knowledge and be connected with each other easily; presently, one billion followers are related through these.

POSITIVE IMPACTS

1. Connectivity: It helps minimize geographical barriers and connects individuals from all over the world.
2. 2. Information Sharing: Breaking news, trends, and events.
3. 3. Social Building: Common interest, hobby or cause becomes groups.
4. 4. Business Stories: Marketing, networking, entrepreneurship.
5. Risks:
6. 1. Mental Health: Anxiety, Depression, lonely
7. 2. Cyberbullying and Harassment: Abuse via the Internet, Trolls
8. 3. Fake News and propaganda: spreading of fake news or giving twist to factual news. Propaganda
9. 4. Addiction: Compulsive scrolling, loss of productivity
10. Future of Social Media
11. 1. Accountable Algorithm: Improvement of well-being, truthfulness of spread information.
12. 2. Data security: Safety and protection of data.
13. 3. Syllabus: Cyber literacy, cyber etiquette
14. 4 Balancing Usage: Healthy usage of social media.

Conclusion:

Role of social media in society is highly multi-dimensional. Though it offers so many benefits, it throws really significant challenges as well. An understanding and work toward these issues will help tap the potential of social media.