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Week-05 edition-03
The Evolution Of Social Media...
```Social Media came to the forefront about ten (10) to fifteen (15) years ago and since then it has grown in popularity and there will be no stopping it. Over the years, more platforms have emerged and changes have been made to existing ones. Tell us two (2)reasons you like social media. And also two (2) reasons you feel it is bad.```
The Evolution of social media, from the old media to new media, this has transformed the way we understand the world🌎 around us today. The New media is interactive and is user-generated while the Old media is more of the traditional way of communicating through television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
In less then a generation, social media has evolved from direct electronic information exchange, to virtual gathering to retail platform and to vital 21st century to be a marketing tool. However, social media allows individual to keep in touch with friends and extended family and some people use various social media applications to network and find career opportunities and also connect with other people across the globe with like-minded interests to share their own thoughts, feelings, and insights online.
The first recognizable social media site was created in 1997 and it enabled users to upload profile and making friends with other users. And the name of the site was [six-degrees] furthermore in 1999 the first blogging sites became popular, creating more sensation to social media that's still popular in our today's world🌎. And the Evolution of communication is still ongoing as a process with the advancements of modern technology, communication methods have been changing every day. Life would have been so hard without communication. Solving problems, writing, reading, and understanding, all of these would have been impossible without communication.
Social media has helped many businesses to grow and also promote itself over the year now and it has helped many people find a better way to connect and communicate with one another. On the other hand, it's also provided many people with problems involving mental health, emotional insecurities, and waste of time.
Many people today find social media to be means of interactions among one another in which they create, share, or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. The office of communications and marketing manages the main Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts.
```My two (2) reasons why I like social media.```
(1) one of the most important advantage of social media is connectivity. It can connect innumerable users from any place at any time. Through social media one could get good information across the world and building of relationship with each other also become easy. It leads to worldwide connection. From the perspective of most teens and many parents and even educators, this is good news that social media has some good benefits to adolescents and teens by helping them develop good communication skills and making new friends, pursue areas of interest, and sharing thoughts and fresh ideas.
(2) social media increased the connections between people and created an amazing environment in which one could share opinions, pictures and a lot of stuff. Social media improved creativity and social awareness for our society by interacting with other people and sharing of new ideas and information. Without social media the whole world would have been a boring world.
```Two (2) reasons why I feel it is bad.```
(1) Due to the effect that it has on brain, social media is addictive both physically and psychologically. When one spent too much time on self-disclosure social networking sites it lights up the same part of the brain that ignites when taking an addictive substance.
(2) it affects personal life causing damage in both professional and academic because it has negative impacts on mental health causing signs of stress, depression, anxiety etc. There are many cases registered in the cyber for misusing information and for cyberbulling. However, social media use can also negatively affect teens, distracting them and disrupting their sleep and exposing them to bullying, rumor spreading, unrealistic views of other people's lives and peer pressure. The risks might be related to how much social media teens use.
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