Advantages and disadvantages of Social media

Lack of Social skill development:
The other disadvantage of social media networking is that individuals do not develop social skills. This is because students are very comfortable chatting online rather than verbal communication. Aspects that must be done in real life are done in the virtual world with social media.

For example marriage, second life, etc. are on social media for certain people. Also, aspects that cannot be done in real life can be accomplished with social media. This leads to an internet addiction disorder.

Cyberbullying:
By making use of the internet or some other technology when individuals abuse others is termed as cyberbullying. The base platform is social media networking for such issues. The main reason to blame social media is that it’s simple and fast to initiate a nasty rumor, comment, upload embarrassing photos, or send an intimate message.

A recent survey about British teenagers has mentioned that about 37% of youngsters have a profile just to prank peers. They can hack others personal life and also send abusive messages too.

Drug and alcohol addiction:
There are many people on social media, sharing their videos and ideas about drug addiction. By this way, many people follow such drug addicts and also become a drug addict. Many individuals are inspired with such videos and become drug addicts.

Deaths due to social media:
Social media has become a representation of much crazy stuff and stunt videos. There are many life-threatening stunts such as jumping on trains, crazy bike stunts, etc. youngsters follow such stunts that lead to loss of life.

Affects self-esteem:
Though there are many examples of social media being a positive media, it has its negatives too. A survey concluded that enhanced use of social media would surely have a negative impact on the self-esteem of an individual. Many individuals are bullied online. About 42% of users visit social media before bed. 15% of teenagers say that they are invited by strangers every day. About 60% of parents do not monitor their children about social media and its usage