Social media is affecting us badly

        At present, almost every person, especially teenagers use different platforms of social media. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that social media has stirred the whole world ever since it has been introduced.

What is social media?

        Social media is actually a collection of interfaces that require internet for running. It asks the user to create an account on a specific platform and become an active member of the social community. This community is also comprised of individuals from all over the world. The main purpose of social media is to keep every user in a connection with others. For instance, a person can either follow or become friends with others and stay in a connection with them.

        Social media running on the internet doesn’t care about distances at all. Even if a person is sitting in a corner of the world, he can easily connect with his friend through social media on the other corner of the world.

Platforms of social media

            Some of the most common platforms of social media are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram. All of these platforms other than just connecting individuals also entertain them. It is the benefit of social media that we cannot ignore that we can talk with our friends using the chatting protocol regardless of the distances that exist between us. Facebook is mostly used for conversing with friends while for entertainment, the other three platforms are used, especially YouTube.

Bad effects of social media

            Social media is like an addiction that cannot be left behind easily once it has been initiated by the person. Moreover, the platforms of social media can easily be installed on mobile phones and used directly through phones. It means that using it like eating a piece of cake and that is why so many individuals are usually engrossed in their phones. Some of the bad effects of this addiction are:

            Loneliness: Surely, social media helps in connecting people with others and their relatives while giving them a source to converse through. They can even share what they are doing through pictures and feed. It really is a good option but it also keeps users from direct interaction. People have become so accustomed to making virtual relations, they have forgotten how to create original and direct relations.

Most of us prefer our rooms and our phones instead of the outside world.

            Cybercrime: Social media also has given a gateway for scammers and hackers to get access to the accounts of others and obtain confidential information about users. This information is then used by them for blackmailing the users. This example is quite minor because the actual cases have already crossed the imagination.

Social media is both beneficial and harmful to people because it consumes almost all the time of users. In order to avoid being badly affected by social media, it is very important to maintain a balance between other tasks and use of social media.