Social Media is taking over!

Social Media is taking over the world!

Twitter,Instagram,Facebook,Snapchat,Tumblr..........

 

Facebook

Facebook is a social media website where people can become friends. It is a useful site and beneficial to people who haven't heard off relatives and need to interact with them or track down old friends from school for example. Facebook is becoming one of the largest social media sites. There are 500 million users who are currently on Facebook. And over 250 million people use Facebook on their mobile devices.

Pros to Facebook

• Facebook helps people gain social skills and to build friendships.
• It is useful to advertise businesses, create group pages and also for educational purposes e.g. helps promote different books, magazines, community day trips, volunteer work.
•  It is a fast growing network where people can like and share each others posts and pictures.

Cons to Facebook

• Unless a person changes his/hers privacy settings then anyone across the world can access your personal information, all your images are there for the world to see and people might try to con you or pretend to be you by using your information.
• Even though Facebook is for older teens+ some of the younger children can lie about their age and access Facebook. This is then dangerous because they can add strangers and talk to older people.
• People don't tend to interact in person any more they are only communicating through these social sites.

Many people can access important things online e.g. Nhs advise service, read the news, pay bills, shopping. People can now gain so much knowledge and understanding of the world through social media sites. Schools are now involved with so much technology. Social Media is apart of everyday life for most teenagers. But there has been an increase in bullying through Social Media websites, this is not acceptable. 

 

Is Social Media doing more harm than good?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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