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ICT awareness week 2018
This document discusses the impact of social media on education, society, and youngsters. It begins by defining social media as applications and websites that allow people to connect and share content globally through the internet. Statistics show that as of 2018 there are over 3 billion active social media users. The document outlines both positive and negative impacts. Positively, social media enhances education by facilitating collaboration and access to resources, but it can also be distracting. It connects society globally but enables spread of misinformation. For youngsters, it fosters connections while exposing them to inappropriate content.
ICT awareness week 2018
- 1. Social media and its impact By: HemantDhital Coordinator, Rapti Engineering College, Treasurer, CAN Federation Dang Branch 29 April, 2018
- 2. Topics to becovered What is social media? Social media statistics Impact of social media Impact of social media on education Impact of social media on society Impact of social media on youngsters CAN, Dang
- 3. What is asocial media? To start, let's look at each word individually. The "social" part: refers to interacting with other people by sharing information with them and receiving information from them. The "media" part: refers to an device of communication, like the internet (TV, radio, and newspapers are examples of traditional forms of media). CAN, Dang
- 4. ……What is asocial media? From these two separate terms, we can pull a basic definition together: Social media refers to all applications and websites or blogs that enable people around the globe to interconnect via the internet; chat, voice call, video call and share content among many other users. CAN, Dang
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- 6. CAN, Dang Social mediastatistics For context, as of April 2018, total worldwide population is 7.6 billion The internet has 4.2 billion users There are 3.03 billion active social media users 91% of retail brands use 2 or more social media channels
- 7. CAN, Dang Social mediastatistics 81% of all small and medium businesses use some kind of social platform Internet users have an average of 7.6 social media accounts Social media users grew by 121 million between Q2 2017 and Q3 2017.
- 8. CAN, Dang Social mediastatistics That works out at a new social media user every 15 seconds. Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day Source: https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/96-amazing- social-media-statistics-and-facts/
- 9. Impact of Socialmedia Education Society Youngsters CAN, Dang
- 10. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Education Social media gives a way to the students to effectively reach each other in regards to assignments or for help on homework and to discuss educational topics CAN, Dang
- 11. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Education Students have easy, free access to resources online to help them learn. Teachers are able to easily collaborate and communicate with students and one another CAN, Dang
- 12. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Education Teachers may post on social media about class activities, school events, homework assignments which will be very useful to them CAN, Dang
- 13. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Education Students can search and apply for job using social media CAN, Dang
- 14. Negative Effect ofSocial Media on Education The first concern about the negative effect comes to mind is the kind of distraction to the students present in the class. In some of the scenario there were many inappropriate information posted which may lead the students to the wrong side CAN, Dang
- 15. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Society Social Media helps to meet people around the world It also helps to share ideas beyond the geographical boundaries Social media provides awareness among society CAN, Dang
- 16. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Society Another positive effect of social media is it unite people on a huge platform for the achievement of specific goals. This brings positive change in the society Provides Information on current events CAN, Dang
- 17. Negative Effect ofSocial Media on Society One of the negative effect of social media is that it make people addicted. People spend lots of time in social networking sites which can divert the concentration and focus from the particular task CAN, Dang
- 18. Negative Effect ofSocial Media on Society Sometimes people shares photos, videos on media that contain violence and negative things which can affect the behavior of kids or teenagers CAN, Dang
- 19. Negative Effect ofSocial Media on Society Sometimes people shares photos, videos on media that contain violence and negative things which can affect the behavior of kids or teenagers It also abuses the society by invading on people’s privacy CAN, Dang
- 20. Negative Effect ofSocial Media on Society Enables the spread of false rumors and unreliable information: 49.1% of users have read false news on social media CAN, Dang
- 21. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Youngsters Social media helps youngsters to stay connected with each other Useful information can be exchanged by using social media Youngsters can use social media for getting the answers related to their career objectives CAN, Dang
- 22. Positive Effect ofSocial Media on Youngsters Social media can allow teens to find support online that they may lack in traditional relationships, especially for teens CAN, Dang
- 23. Negative Effect ofSocial Media on Youngsters Mostly youngsters waste lots of time on social sites like chatting which also effects their health Kidnapping, murder, robbery can be easily done by sharing details on social media CAN, Dang
- 24. Negative Effect ofSocial Media on Youngsters Some useless blogs influence youth extremely that they become violent and can take some inappropriate actions Pornographic content being spread in some the social groups CAN, Dang
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