Social Media- A Benefit Or A Nuisance?

And you keep scrolling down. Social media is the highest platform for interaction of today’s trending world. With bits of news updates, the latest gossips, those controversial tweets and the Instagram flooding over with a bazillion new photos and videos. Some say social media is a boon to this fast growing planet but its others quite disagree to this. So let’s talk over the pros and cons about this.

Social media is generally known to acquire a wider set of audience; it could be a good market tool for advertising and for getting the word out there. It could also bring up the advantage of rising popularity and getting your name into the public, who knows your new awesome video, might go viral?

Social media has certainly reduced the feeling of loneliness among people, especially the elderly who could use these websites and apps to connect to the new world. They could watch over the funny videos, look for some interesting pages and pass out their wise words and thoughts through Twitter or any such.

There’s also every possibility of make new acquaintances through your social accounts with those frequent notifications and friend suggestions, you might also find one of your best buddies you’ve long lost touch to? So you need pictures and information on for your project on Princess Diane? Don’t worry, we’ve got that covered as one of the many perks of social media having any kind of picture, be it a rare spider hidden in the nooks of a forest or an extravagant piece of antiquate jewelry.

When there are pros, they’re also the cons along the way. Let’s talk about the amount of time we spend looking at our screen, isn’t it like hours you spend on this thing? Does scrolling down unnecessary posts and pictures really worth your time? Or you rather spend this time over some other important things? That’s something to ponder over.

When it comes to posting stuff online, you must be careful of what you do because social media is an open platform and it is for the whole world to see. There’s no secret that goes without being seen by others. It’s also very hard to upkeep with the fast changing trends if one wants to use their accounts to upkeep their social status. There also the thing called isolation. Once a person opens up their respective apps and pages, they’ll be stuck like glue to their screens. They need some face to face interaction and spend some time playing other physical activities to keep themselves fit.

So finally, these two words ‘social media’, might as well be your baby’s first words as they’re surrounded by since they landed in to this world. So is it really a boon or a bane to the society? Let’s post this and see what the world has to say about this.