How Social Media Has Changed Our Lives?

How Social Media Has Changed Our Lives?

What is Social Media?

Before coming to the point, let’s see what does social media mean? Social media is a medium through which we contact and interact with our friends, relatives, family members and all other relations that are present in our lives. Main examples of social media are Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Tik Tok and so on. These medias require electronic devices mainly smart phones to use them.

What are the Effects of Social Media?

Social media has affected all the age groups especially the youngsters have been affected in majority both in positive and negative way. Now we will discuss how this social media has changed our lives in both ways.

What are the Positive Aspects of Social Media?

If we discuss the positive aspects of social media, then we came to know that it has helped us a lot in making our lives easy. The difference can be seen easily by comparing our present with the past.

Comparison with the Past:

In the past we had limited resources and limited society. The area and market was very limited with people in counting figures. We faced many difficulties in marketing our products and services.

Traditional postal system was the only way through which we contacted with each other. In the near past we had emails for important conversations. After that we have seen development in the technology sector, and our lives changed in many ways.

Now we have different types of media through which we can become socialize. Now we can easily market our products and services. The marketing cost has been decreased as we can easily do marketing on different social media platforms by posting free ads.

As discussed earlier, the younger generation and students have more interaction with the social media, so this media is helping them a lot in their studies and making their notes for difference subjects. They can easily share their thoughts with the fellows and teachers. They can also ask those points which make them difficult in learning process.

How Social Media is helpful for employers, employees and jobless people?

Through social media, jobless people can find more opportunities in searching the job of their choice. A lot of time is saved by searching and applying online. The social media has become very much helpful in these days, as the world is affected by the Deadly Corona virus and we all have to stay home all the time. In these circumstances, we can perform our office duties from our home through social medium.

What are the Negative aspects of social media?
Along with positivity, everything has some negative aspects that can affect the lives of people. So in this way, social media has also changed our lives in negative way. By excessive use of social media in our daily lives, majority of the people have become addicted to it. Most of the students waste their precious time in scrolling Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok etc. They don’t care of their valuable time. So their studies and academic results affected very badly. Routine tasks remain incomplete and it becomes difficult to manage time in a proper way.

Conclusion

Excess of everything is bad. So we have to balance our lives while using electronic devices and social media platforms. Nothing in this world is bad, only its use make it good or bad. We have to use them wisely in order to get more positive results from them.