What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media?
• Introduction
Social media is such a media, which looks very different from all the other media (print, electronic and parallel media).
Social media tries to create a virtual world through the Internet that a person can access through social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, youtube, etc.).
In today's era, social media has become an essential part of life, which has many features, such as • Providing information, • Entertaining and
• to educate
mainly involved.
What is social media?
Social media is not traditional media.
This creates a virtual world that anyone can access through the Internet.
Social media is a vast network, which works to keep the whole world connected. It is a beautiful medium of communication.
It is involved in exchanging information at a fast pace, in which news of every field is there.
• Advantages of Social Media
Social media plays a vital role in playing a positive role so that any person, organization, group, and country, etc., can be made economically, socially, culturally, and politically prosperous.
Many such developmental and developing works have been done through social media, including the creation of enriching democracy, which can increase the unity, integrity, secularism, socialist qualities of any country.
1. World against corruption
We see many such examples that corroborate the above points, as seen in 'WORLD AGAINST CORRUPTION,' which was a great campaign against corruption fought on the streets and social media.
Due to which a vast mass of people joined the 'Anna Hazare' movement, and it was made influential.
2. 2014 General Elections
During the 2014 general elections in India, political parties made ordinary people aware of elections by using social media.
In this general election, social media increased the voting percentage, and the awareness about the election among the youth was also seen growing.
It was through social media that a large number of youth started coming out on the streets to get justice for 'Nirbhaya Case,' due to which the Indian was forced to come under pressure from the government and enact a new and more effective law, and all this only and only.
It has been possible only through social media.
3. Spread of Popularity
Social media plays a great platform in the spread of popularity, where a person can make himself or any of his products more popular.
Today the trailers of all the movies, TV programs are also being broadcast through social media.
Video and audio chats have also been facilitated through social media, in which Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram seem to be some of the major platforms.
• Disadvantages of social media
While social media plays a positive role, on the other hand, some people also misuse it.
By using social media in the wrong way, such people try to divide people by spreading rumors.
Misleading and harmful information is shared through social media, which can harm the public.
1. Government shutdown on social media
At times, the matter increases so much that the government becomes strict on the misuse of social media, and we have seen that the government had to ban social media in a state like Jammu and Kashmir (India).
Social media was also banned in the farmers' agitation in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, so those anti-social elements could not carry out any major accident under the guise of farmers' agitation.
Just as a coin has two sides, in the same way, social media also has two sides, which are given below-
The impact of social media in our daily life is as follows
° It is a medium of very high-speed communication
° It can gather information in one place
° Provides news with great ease
•° Beneficial for all classes, be it educated class or uneducated class
° No person is entitled to any content here in any way.
° Photos, videos, information, messages, documents, etc., are shared very easily.
• Abuse of social media
• It provides a lot of information, many of which are misleading and even harmful to us.
• Information can be distorted and misrepresented in any way.
• Any information can be changed to make it provocative, which has nothing to do with reality.
• There is a lack of sources due to no owner of the content.
• There is a possibility of completely breaching the privacy of the logo.
• Editing photos or videos can create confusion by doing wrong, due to which sometimes riots like apprehension also arise.
• SIBER CRIME The most significant problem related to social media has become.
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