Social media refers to websites and applications that allow users to create and share content or participate in social networking. Some prominent examples of social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, WhatsApp, Sarahah, and Skype. Social media provides advantages such as connectivity, information sharing, awareness, and education, but also poses disadvantages like hacking, cyberbullying, addiction, health issues, and risks of following dangerous stunts.

1. Topic:
Social Media
By M. Shahzaib Ijaz

2. Definition:
• Websites and applications that enable users to create and
share content or to participate in social networking.

3. Prominent examples of social media:
•Facebook:
• It is a popular free social networking website
• It allows user to create profiles, upload photos and video.
• Send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues
• . According to Survey from the Nielsen Group, Internet users within the
United States spend more time on Facebook than any other website

4. •Twitter:
• It is a social networking site where people communicate in short
messages called tweets
• Twitter has become one of the most used social media platforms
because it is both personal and rapid. Celebrities use Twitter to build a
more personal connection with their fans.
• It contain a limited number of characters up to 140 to convey your
message to the world.

5. •Instagram:
• Instagram is a free, online photo-sharing application and social
network platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2012.
• It is known for its square image format.
• Instagram allows users to edit and upload photos and short videos
through a mobile app.
• Users can add a caption to each of their posts and use hashtags in
these post to make them searchable by other users within the app

6. •SnapChat:
• A mobile messaging service that sends a photo or video to someone
• Number of active users per month is 200 million approximately
• It allows you to explore news and even check out live stories that are
happening around the world.

8. •Youtube
• It is world largest video sharing social networking site that enable
user to upload and share video ,view them, comment them and like
them.
• Users can create a channel where they can upload all their personally
recorded videos to show them to their friends and followers.

9. •Whatsapp:
• It is a free to download messenger app for smartphones
• It uses the internet to send messages, images, audio or video
• The service is very similar to text messaging services, however,
because it uses the internet to send messages, the cost of using
whatsapp is significantly less than texting.

10. •Sarahah:
•It is an anonymous messaging service.
•Sarahah is created by the Saudi Arabian developer Zain
al-Abiden Tawfiq
• Once a user registers, they can give the link to their
friends or post it publicly online and anyone with that link
can send them anonymous message.

11. •Skype:
• It offers free video calling between people.
• The service is available for desktop computers,
notebook and tablet computers and other mobile
devices, including mobile phones.
• Its application that can be downloaded to any
computing device.

12. Advantages:
• Connectivity – Stay in touch with friends and family from around the world.
• Information – Stay informed about news and happening around the world
and in real time.
• Sharing – It shares life events and publish your life including travel, pictures ,
promotion, graduations and accomplishments
• Awareness – Social media also create awareness and innovate the way
people live. It is the social media which has helped people discover new and
innovative stuffs that can enhance personal lives.
• Education – Social media has a lot of benefits for students and teachers. It is
very easy to educate from others who are experts and professionals via the
social media

13. Disadvantages:
• Hacking – Personal data and privacy can easily be hacked and shared on
the Internet. Which can make financial losses and loss to personal life
• Cyberbullying – Since anyone can create a fake account and do
anything without being traced, it has become quite easy for anyone to
bully on the Internet
• . Addiction – The addictive part of the social media is very bad and can
disturb personal lives as well.
• Health Issues – The excess usage of social media can also have a
negative impact on the health.
• Social Media causes death – By following the stunts and other crazy
stuffs that are shared on the internet can cause death.

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