Social media can be influential and dominant in society in both negative and positive ways. It basically gives people a way to stay in touch with people you care and love, who live far away. It also gives companies a way to engage with clientele. Aside from the fact that most people in the globe today use the Internet in their everyday lives, social media networks are also the most demanding and a famous hub to communicate and connect with the world at large. Social media has transformed not only our powers of thinking, but today governs social conducts and human behaviour as well. These social networks originally started to support existing social relations but as the years go by, several other social media platforms were developed that encouraged folks to meet and make friends with complete strangers.
Impact on human behaviour and society: Pros & Cons
Relationships, good humour, shopping choices, and even study habits are at the present affected by social media. One of the issues, however, is that any person can share anything, including material that may not be correct. In a number of cases, damage in human society is done when public spread unproven, outright or inflammatory fake news story. This can harm private persons, as when someone is bullied online. It can also have a damaging impact on society as a whole. Even the young users of this website start to put on show extraversion and become narcissistic owing to the pressure they are put under to be acknowledged and accepted by their peers and having to flaunt an appealing physical appearance. In that manner, social media affects human actions negatively.
On the flip side, Social media enriched equality and democracy by enabling everybody to send out their content to the big audience. Social media gives voice to weak minorities and vulnerable sections of the society. For example, females are voicing their views through social media, who were not encouraged to speak up due to social and cultural norms. Another example is people are sharing content to encourage people and are voicing their thoughts to society and government openly.
Conclusion
As a result of this new trend, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and similar services are becoming the most visited destinations on the WEB.