What is Social Media?
Social media is marked as the interactive technologies which allow you to share information, ideas, interests, and various other aspects that a person wants to share publicly as well as privately. It is all done through virtual networks. It is generally internet-based so quick transmission of information happens across the world. It comes in various aspects like
- Tumblr
- Quora
- Tiktok
- YouTube
Now when there are so many benefits for the above-mentioned websites then equally there are a lot of negative impacts that are imparted by various social media platforms. Anything on the internet today can be traced in some or the other way. So anything that is available on the internet or connected to the internet is not at all safe or private.
It is safe up to some extent but the people operating these applications can track the data sets easily and can move into your personal stuff without your [permission. These are to keep things safer so that no person misuses some things but actually the things are not safe when connected to the internet.It is seen after a great research that many people search about 10 negative effects of social media followed by its positive impacts.
Negative Impacts of Social Media
There are various negative impacts of social media so a person should try to use these platforms so that it does not affect you in a negative way. Some of the major negative impacts that are imparted by social media are:
- Depression and anxiety are adversely affecting the people who are using various social media platforms.
- Cyberbullying is again the major aspect that is also trending these days. With this people feel mentally as well as socially hurt.
- FOMO (Fear of Missing out) is largely created by social media platforms because people usually follow what others are posting or sharing on these platforms. So a sense of FOMO is formed in almost every individual using social media platforms.
- Unrealistic expectations, as people nowadays want unexpected things to happen in their lives, but actually this is negatively impacting the lives of people because expecting something that is not feasible is making you into the terms of depression and anxiety.
The bottom Line
On the whole, Social media have great importance in some or the other way but if anything has some advantages associated with it then equally there are demerits of that similar technology. Now social media solely depends on our usage if the person uses these platforms for genuine purposes like study, or making use of it for business purposes is totally correct but if the person uses the same technology for the wrong deeds can lead to greater disasters so far.
So one should make use of the social media platforms only for genuine purposes and one should try to avoid sharing personal information over these platforms. Anything connected to the internet is not safe even if it is encrypted so try to make use of things wisely.