Social networking sites have become popular among teenagers and individuals for sharing interests and staying connected with friends and family. However, they can also enable cyberbullying and the spread of inappropriate content like child pornography. Additionally, oversharing of personal information on social media profiles poses risks of identity theft and can interfere with employment if employers view unprofessional content. While social networks allow forming online communities, excessive social media use has also been linked to issues like social isolation, depression, and relationship problems.
1. In the modern days social networking site has become the popular sites used by
most teenagers and as well as individuals. A social networking site such as
Facebook, MySpace and Friendster is used to share similar interest. Whereas
social networking sites such as twitter and LinkedIn is used by business people
to help advertise their business and helping other business people. To have a
social networking site the users need to create a public profile within that website
that have online. Basically these social sites are able to post personal
information, photograph, videos, and comments. These social networking sites
can be describe as community based website, where users can form a
relationship with others people who have the same network or interest, having
private chat rooms, online discussions forum and other opportunity they have
online. The attractiveness of using social network will keep growing and the
population of users will keep growing anonymously.
Firstly, the advantage of having social networking and the disadvantage side of having a social
networking sites then recommendation and conclusion will be including.
The advantage of having a social networking site
First of all, the best reason of having a profile on social networking site, it gives people the
chance to stay connected no matter how far they are. This will also help people to keep
themselves up to date with their friends or far families. Therefore, using a social network also
help people to find their old friend. There are some people who used this network professionally
even though they are fine with their career because they able to help people answer any
question that relate to the same career that the person have. Social site such as MySpace and
Facebook, it gives the opportunity to create an event and invite friends that they want or a group
invite, so you don’t actually have to call each person. Therefore, for people who involved with
music industry they also can promote their albums or music on site like Facebook or MySpace.
Music bands having an upcoming concert can also be informed on the social site which keeps
their fans informed and also people can interact with the artist they like.
Cyber Bullying
Cyber bullying is when a teen get harassed, threatened, humiliated or
embarrassed by using the internet or any digital technologies. Recently social
network has becoming the target. It is devastating for the victim; cyber
2. bullying can lead to suicide and depression. Social networking site is where
they can say thing but not in person. Online bullies confident that and they can
make contact with their victims anytime, anywhere, day or night, not just in
the school. It is clear that social networking shows cyber bullying is just one of
the negative impacts that social networking site has on society today.
Interference at workplace
Social networking sites can have a negative impact in the workplace. They create distraction,
decrease productivity, cost companies money, can jeopardize a company’s reputation and legal
liability and for those users who don’t have their profiles set to private can often result in
unemployment. Social networking sites also able to harmful for potential employees looking for
job, as face book and MySpace are incredible resources for companies as they offer helpful
information about a candidate’s true colors. Several profiles often contain awkward and
embarrassing information that job seekers would not want their future managers to know about
themselves.
Isolation and depression
Communicating with people over the internet makes bad contact on our
relationship and at the same time they also can strengthen out week
depression we have. The connection with the people we don’t see also can
make our depression strong and also bring social isolation. People who isolated
they may have a fake healthy friendship by talking or meeting people online.
Marriage and carrier life can be ruined by increasing the number of people
using the internet.
Child pornography
Child pornography is the most uploaded and shared due to the popularity and
the number of growing in social network. It is also the fastest growing criminal
segment on the internet. People been uploading pictures and videos without
noticing that the files they upload are inappropriate to post on social network.
Microsoft Corporation comes out with a program that can detect and deleted
the uploaded picture and video of child pornography.
Theft
People found too many ways to steal, hack or commit fraud online. Social
network has been the main aim for stealing information through different
personalities. While creating a profile in a social site it will ask you to fill in
3. information such as your full name, location, email account, friends and
relationship. This will make the user unaware and share the information that
will harm the user and make the thief to hack the users account easily.