Social media refers to online platforms that allow users to connect, communicate and share content. It has revolutionized interactions by providing new ways for organizations, communities and individuals to engage in interactive dialogue through words, photos, videos and audio. Popular social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. While social media has benefits like staying connected with friends and communities, it also poses risks like cyberbullying, privacy concerns and overuse that can negatively impact physical and mental health.

2. Introduction to Social Media

5. Social media, also known as social networking, is the
term used to describe any type of social interaction
using technology with some combination of words,
photos, video, and/or audio,1 and it has truly
revolutionized the way that people interact. Social
media includes web-based and mobile-based
technologies that are used to turn communication
into interactive dialogue among organizations,
communities, and individuals.

6. Basically, a Social Media is a circle of
friends.
Technology, through the Internet, has
provided more ways than ever before to
find people with whom you have things in
common – now you can connect with
people in your local area or anywhere in
the world – people whose paths you
wouldn’t ordinarily cross.

7. So now, essentially a Social Media is an
online location where a user can:
• create their own online identity and profile
• include personal information, photos, blog
entries and music clips
• share information with other people directly
• access even more people via the online
“network”

8. • My Space
• Facebook
• Bebo
• Black Planet
• Xanga
Top Social Networking Sites

9. INNOVATION
Social Media on the Internet took
off several years ago, and now
there are hundreds of sites that
bring people together.

11. • Stay in touch with friends
• Find and connect with old friends
• Make plans with others
• Make new friends
• Communicate over long distance

12. • Used by businesses to connect with
employees and potential clients
• Used to find jobs
• Used for answering problems and
short queries
• Great source for marketing
• Law enforcement has used to deter
and solve crime

14. While the Internet has given us
wonderful new ways to connect, not
everyone out there really wants to be
a friend. More and more, we need to
make sure we understand the
dangers found on the Web so that we
can help keep ourselves, our children,
and our students safe.

15. “Social media tools are the latest in a long
line of time stealers in the workplace,
following in the footsteps of March
Madness brackets, afternoon golf games,
morning water cooler gossip, or cigarette
breaks. But social media like Twitter and
Facebook are more visible from a distance
(of both time and space), so they are easier
to criticize and quantify.” 13 In other
words, unprofessional employees are going
to act unethical regardless of whether they
are plugged into social media.

16. www.Myspace.com
www.teenagechatrooms.com
• Pop-Ups Can Lure
Network Users Into
Areas They Don’t
Need or Want to Go!

17. The students become victims of social
networks more often than anyone else. This is
because of the reason that when they are
studying or searching their course material
online, they get attracted to these sites to kill
the boredom in their study time, diverting their
attention from their work. Other negative side
effects of social networking websites include
the following:

18. Students have started relying more
on the information accessible easily
on these social networking sites and
the web. This reduces their learning
and research capabilities.

19. Students who get involved in
activities on social media sites while
studying result in reduction in their
focus of attention. This causes
reduction in their academic
performance, and concentration to
study well.

20. The more time the students spend on these
social media sites, the less time they will spend
socializing in person with others. This reduces
their communication skills. They will not be able
to communicate and socialize effectively in
person with others. The employers are getting
more and more unsatisfied with the
communication skills of the fresh graduates due
to this reason. The effective communication
skills are key to success in the real world.

21. Students mostly use slang words or
shortened forms of words on social
networking sites. They start relying on the
computer grammar and spelling check
features. This reduces their command over
the language and their creative writing skills.

22. Students, while searching and
studying online, get attracted to
using social media sites and
sometimes they forget why they are
using internet. This wastes their
time and sometimes students are
not able to deliver their work in the
specified time frame.

23. Students get low grades in school
due to lack of the desired
information and writing skills.

24. The student’s motivational level
reduces due to the use of these
social networking sites. They rely on
the virtual environment instead of
gaining practical knowledge from
the real world.

25. The excessive use of these sites affect the mental as well as
physical health. Students do not take their meals on time
and take proper rest. They take excessive amount of coffee
or tea to remain active and focused which effects negatively
on their health.
The overuse of these sites on a daily basis has many negative
effects on the physical and mental health of students making
them lethargic and unmotivated to create contact with the
people in person. The parents should check and balance on
their children when they use the internet. They should be on
guard whether they are using it for appropriate time period
or not. The peers and teachers should also help students
make them aware of the negative effects and explain what
they are losing in the real world by sticking to these social
networking sites.

27. Being cruel to others by sending or posting
harmful
material using technological means;
an individual or group that uses
information and communication involving
electronic technologies to facilitate
deliberate and repeated harassment or
threat to an individual or group.

28. • “Impersonation”: Pretending to be someone
else and sending or posting material online that
makes that person look bad, gets that person in
trouble or danger, or damages that person’s
reputation or friendships
• “Outing and Trickery”: Sharing someone’s
secret or embarrassing information online.
Tricking someone into revealing secrets or
embarrassing information which is then shared
online
• “Exclusion”: Intentionally excluding someone
from an on-line group, like a ‘buddy list’

29. • Cyber bullying typically starts at
about 9 years of age and usually
ends after 14 years of age; after 14,
it becomes cyber or sexual
harassment due to nature of acts
and age of actors.

31. • Age 25-65
• Well-Educated
• Married
• Crosses Socio-Economic Boundaries
• Steady Employment
• Varied Computer Expertise
• Male

32. • Chat Rooms
• Private Chats
• Social Networking Sites – MySpace,
Facebook, 2go, baddoo etc.
• Blogs
• IMing
• E-mail
• Phone

33. • Shared Interests
• Trust
• Secrecy
• Breaking Down Barriers
• Threats
• Face-to-Face Meeting

34. • Shared Interests
• Trust
• Secrecy
• Breaking Down Barriers
• Threats
• Face-to-Face Meeting