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This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of social media. The key advantages include building relationships, sharing expertise, increasing visibility, educating oneself, and connecting anytime. The main disadvantages are trouble with privacy, lack of emotional connection, cyberbullying, decreased quick-witted skills, spreading of fake news, and addiction. In conclusion, while social media provides opportunities, overuse can negatively impact users through issues like addiction, bullying, and dissemination of false information. Managing social media wisely requires understanding both its benefits and drawbacks.

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This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of social media. The key advantages include building relationships, sharing expertise, increasing visibility, educating oneself, and connecting anytime. The main disadvantages are trouble with privacy, lack of emotional connection, cyberbullying, decreased quick-witted skills, spreading of fake news, and addiction. In conclusion, while social media provides opportunities, overuse can negatively impact users through issues like addiction, bullying, and dissemination of false information. Managing social media wisely requires understanding both its benefits and drawbacks.

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Computer applications in business

Participant name: Malaika Qamar


Participant Id: F2021381025
Section: C19

Resource person: Sir Hammad Ghulam

University of management and technology


Lahore, 2022
Social media .................................................................................................................................................. 3
Advantages of Social media ...................................................................................................................... 4
Build relationships: ............................................................................................................................... 4
Share your expertise: ............................................................................................................................ 4
Increase your visibility: ......................................................................................................................... 4
Educate yourself: .................................................................................................................................. 4
Connect anytime: .................................................................................................................................. 4
Disadvantages of social media .................................................................................................................. 5
Trouble with privacy: ............................................................................................................................ 5
Lack of emotional connects: ................................................................................................................. 5
Cyber-bullying: ...................................................................................................................................... 5
Decrease in quick-witted skill: .............................................................................................................. 6
Spreading of fake news: ........................................................................................................................ 6
Addiction: .............................................................................................................................................. 6
Conclusion: ................................................................................................................................................ 7
Figure 1 social media .................................................................................................................................... 5
Social media
Advantages of Social media
Following are the benefits of social media:

Build relationships:
Social media is not just about brands connecting with their customers. In fact, at its root, social media is
about connecting people to people. From a professional perspective, you can grow your professional
network online tremendously by connecting with colleagues, mentors, role models and other
professionals. If you nurture those relationships, you have a whole new network to tap when you’re
looking for opportunities or professional guidance.

Share your expertise:


Social media gives you an opportunity to talk about what you know and what you want to be known for.
Sharing your expertise will attract potential professional and personal connections. Learn how to present
your professional experience, achievements and results and you will get more and more opportunities to
connect with like-minded people.

Increase your visibility:


If you spend time honing in on your expertise, consistently managing your social channels, then you have
the potential to greatly increase your visibility and even become a thought-leader in your space. Good
content gets shared, so if you are consistently posting quality content, the more people who share it, the
more people see it.

Educate yourself:
There is a lot of noise on the Internet. Social media allows you to hone in on what you really care about
and what you really want to read. You can create lists that curate content from your favorite people,
thought leaders in the space, or media outlets. You can easily learn about current events and things taking
place near you.

Connect anytime:
Some people think that it is a disadvantage. But, the advantage of being able to communicate and connect
with anyone instantly outweighs the potential negative. Social media can help you connect before, during
and after networking events, a conference or a meeting. People can get to know you prior to meeting you
and be better equipped to talk in person.
(morris, 2021)

Figure 1 social media

Disadvantages of social media


Following are the disadvantages of social media:

Trouble with privacy:


The trouble with privacy is arguably one of the most significantly experienced disadvantages when listing
the advantages and disadvantages of social media. Tweeting inappropriate information, sharing too much
of your everyday life with a large audience, or unknowingly sharing your online location are some of the
disadvantages of frequent social media usage.

Lack of emotional connects:


Social media has become a significant hindrance to socio-emotional connections. The quality of
conversation on social media can often be unpleasant because it is difficult to sense interest or emotion
from another person.

Additionally, the celebration of special occasions and relationship milestones has a limit to sharing
messages on social media platforms.

As a result, the emotional connection continues to decrease with an increase in social media usage. This is
primarily because emotions & feelings are not easily expressed with simple text messages.

Cyber-bullying:
Cyber-bullying is one of the worst aspects of regular social media usage, topping the list of disadvantages
associated with the same.
Bullying that takes place online on social media platforms is cyber-bullying. Its implementation is via
false social media accounts to psychologically disturb or tease victims.

False social media accounts are often untraceable. The bullying happens via sending derogatory material
(such as photographs and videos), in addition to inappropriate text messages.

Decrease in quick-witted skill:


Social media has had a disastrous impact on the quality of real-time face-to-face conversations with your
loved ones.

Quick-witted skill is the ability to think fast and respond in significantly shorter periods. However, on
social media, a lot of time is spent crafting responses to comments or posting relevant content.

As a result, there has been a significant decrease in quick-witted skills, which contributes to the quality of
conversations you have. The quick-witted skill also directly affects how you respond to sudden changes in
your physical and emotional environment.

Spreading of fake news:


Another negative aspect worth noting in our list of advantages & disadvantages of social media is that
fake news spreads very fast. Individuals often create false social media posts and share them by spreading
the fake news on groups and other platforms.
The result is the strong dissemination of fake news. Almost anybody can create fake news on a trending
topic and post the same on different social media platforms without any verification.

Fake news can have a disastrous impact on knowledge of different topics. Some may even prompt
rebellious acts that are better avoided with accurate information.

Addiction:
Finally, addiction is regarded as one of the most commonly-felt disadvantages of social media platforms.
Post the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge in social media addiction, especially with the extra
amount of leisure time experienced by many.

People who use social media excessively develop a psychological addiction to the same. Social media
addiction has affected the global teenage population in a majority of negative ways.

People who use social media excessively are often cut off from society and the natural world. This can
cause significant dissociation from what is happening in an individual’s real life.
Conclusion:
Social media is a land of new opportunity. There are countless personal and professional benefits of using
social media. However, it is also important to note that social media usage has significant disadvantages.

The disadvantages of social media usage include addiction, cyber-bullying, the dissemination of fake
news, and a direct impact on brand reputation.

Knowing the advantages and disadvantages of social media can be a helpful tool in allowing you to
navigate this part of the internet wisely.

References:
(morris, 2021)

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