The Use of Social Networking Platforms

 ADVANTAGE OF USING SOCIAL NETWORKS

•Build relationship with other people.
             For instance, using Facebook, Messenger, Twitter etc. that makes us create a conversation with other.  Social media helps in building and participating in the community of own religion and believes to discuss and learn about it. 
•Inform
             By siting some links, articles that seen in some social networks it helps us gathered information, and makes us aware and inform in what happening in our world.  We can get the facts and true information by doing some research.
•Express ourselves.
             Facebooks, Twitter, Instagram and even YouTube (Vlog) are the good example of apps that support us to express our own ideas, thoughts, and feelings by posting and sharing information about ourselves. 
•Maintain our connectivity to our friends, families and love once. 
            People from anywhere can connect with anyone. Regardless of the location and religion. The beauty of social media is that you can connect with anyone to learn and share your thoughts.
•Helps us to Promote businesses. 
            Through social networks you can promote your business to the largest audience. This makes the businesses profitable and less expensive, because most of the expenses made over a business are for advertising and promotion. This can be decreased by constantly and regularly involving on the social media to connect with the right audience.

5 DISADVANTAGE OF USING SOCIAL NETWORKS

•Fake News

             A lots of information coming from different person and not all of that are accurate. We should be aware in some information that we see.

•Time waster

             Instead we use our time in doing school works, other activities that make us improve and become a productive as a person, we tend to use our time to browsing and scrolling in Facebook, YouTube and other social networks.

•Health issues

              Social medias has also a negative impact to or health. Most of the people get lazy because of the excessive use of social networking sites. Which in result brings disorder in the routine life. This research by discovery will shock you by showing how bad your health can be affected by the use of the social media.

•Addiction

              They get involved very extensively and are eventually cut off from the society. It can also waste individual time that could have been utilized by productive tasks and activities.

•Reduces Family Closeness

             When family is spending family time together and watching a movie, in reality other people are on their phones rather than actually watching the movie with their parents. Instead they spend their time with their family, they tend to use their phone.

5 PRECUATIONARY MEASURES WHEN USING SOCIAL MEDIA.

•Beware of what links you click and what software you download and install. Do not trust links/software sent by your friends implicitly as they themselves might not be aware it includes malware or their account might have been compromised. 

         

•Take responsibility for your own safety, never join a group just because it is trendy or all your friends are doing it.

•Beware of what you post in social media. Don’t post personal content. You must protect your privacy, if it is not necessary to post don’t post it.

•If you have social media apps on your phone, be sure to password protect your device.

•Know what action you take. If someone is harassing or threatening you, remove them from your friends list, block them and report them to the site administrator.