The advancement of new technology, especially about the way people interact virtually (for example, using Facebook), has brought some side effects either in individuals or societies. This essay will highlight the drawbacks of these social networking sites.
With regard to individuals, the first crucial disadvantage of this trend is that people tend to abuse using these sites to raise their popularity. To illustrate, they potentially manipulate their personality to get higher attraction from other social media users, and as a result, this habit can affect their whole nature in real life. Beside doing not proper behaviour to get fame in social media, the negative impact of operating the sites is people, especially for the active user, frequently spend excessive time on their gadget screen to look at their social activity. In some cases, Facebook can be so addictive and make people forget that they have been connected to people via these sites for hours.
As for Societies, one of the drawbacks of these conditions is the possibility to create a wrong social movement. This is because few people can initiate to feed and distribute false information to mass people in social media and get an advantage from that situation. For instance, in the presidential election, people systematically do Black Campaign on Facebook to destroy a particular candidate's reputation. Besides damaging the reputation, people can harness their Facebook account to make each candidate supporter group to hate each other.
To sum up, if people might not use social networking sites wisely, it will negatively affect societies and their citizens. To mitigate these issues, a few possible solutions are to make influencing campaigns about how to use social networking sites properly and reinforcing the information & technology law that can keep up with this trend.
The advancement of new technology,
especially
about the way
people
interact
virtually
(
for example
, using Facebook), has brought
some
side effects either in individuals or societies. This essay will highlight the drawbacks of these
social
networking sites.
With regard to individuals, the
first
crucial disadvantage of this trend is that
people
tend to abuse using these
sites
to raise their popularity. To illustrate, they
potentially
manipulate their personality to
get
higher attraction from other
social
media users, and
as a result
, this habit can affect their whole nature in real life. Beside doing not proper
behaviour
to
get
fame in
social
media, the
negative
impact of operating the
sites
is
people
,
especially
for the active user,
frequently
spend excessive time on their gadget screen to look at their
social
activity. In
some
cases, Facebook can be
so
addictive and
make
people
forget that they have
been connected
to
people
via these
sites
for hours.
As for Societies, one of the drawbacks of these conditions is the possibility to create a
wrong
social
movement. This is
because
few
people
can initiate to feed and distribute false information to mass
people
in
social
media and
get
an advantage from that situation.
For instance
, in the presidential election,
people
systematically
do Black Campaign on Facebook to
destroy
a particular candidate's reputation.
Besides
damaging the reputation,
people
can harness their Facebook account to
make
each candidate supporter group to hate each other.
To sum up, if
people
might not
use
social
networking
sites
wisely
, it will
negatively
affect societies and their citizens. To mitigate these issues, a few possible solutions are to
make
influencing campaigns about how to
use
social
networking
sites
properly
and reinforcing the information & technology law that can
keep
up with this trend.