Advantages of Social Media

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The advantages of social media are staying in contact with family and friends like with Facebook. Facebook is a very popular site to where you can stay in contact with friends and family that live out of state and you also can post pictures. Another reason for it being an advantage of social media is that you can like a news feed like the news and get updates to weather alerts or amber alerts (which is a real big one) because it has help find kids that were kidnapped to criminals The disadvantages of social media are the someone heard something about something that happen in their area and get the story wrong and post it on their news feed. Or another on is there is a lot of bullying on social media sites and that is a big issue right now with all these kids in school starting as early as middle school. Facebook is a big social media site people use to bully other kids from their school and it can result in the person being bullied commit suicide. Another site that is at a disadvantage of social media is youtube. The reason why I say that is because if there is a fight after school with two high school students and it gets recorded on a cell phone then it is uploaded onto youtube for people to see and that falls along the lines of bullying. So that is the advantages and disadvantages of the social media. Knowing these advantages and disadvantages alter a person might use social media is that if they are on the road and need to find out what the weather is going to be like either a few towns away or even a different state they can get updates quickly. Also you can get amber alerts as well depending on what is going on in that state/town. Also a person knowing the advantages of social media they can keep in contact with their friends and family. People knowing the disadvantages of social media can help keep their kids safe from being bullied. Another way of people

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