Social Media: The Double-Edged Sword of Its Profound Effects on Society

Social media effect ❌

It is that social phenomenon which altered the pattern of communicating, interacting, and even disseminating information. Nowadays, one finds sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn are ubiquitous with more than one billion users in the world. However, it is the influence that social media has on society which is all the more profound.

Positive Impact
1. Accessibility: access which has long arm to access many parts and corners of the world and global connectivity
2. Information Sharing: news, educative materials and others
3. Community Building: Helping the smaller groups and social action
4. Business Leads: Marketing networking entrepreneurship
Negative Impact *
1. Mental Health Anxiety, depression, loneliness, cyberbullying
2. Social comparison, Unhealthy comparison low self-esteem.
3. Addiction consequent compulsive scroll loss of productivity .
4. Misinformation: News distortion and false information.
Threat to Emergers
1. Self Development: How does it build the self-concept and body image
2. Cyber Bullying: Greater risk, reaches a more diversified population
3. Sleep Disturbances: How screens interfere with sleep
Harm Reduction
1. Safer Use: Policies that are in place; quality time spent in relation to other human beings
2. Digital Literacy: Measured thinking and media literacy declined.
3. Critical…