Disadvantages of Social Media

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The Internet has only been around for a few decades. Billions of people use it each and every day; whether it may be for entertainment, business or social life. Through exponential growth in technology however, the internet has evolved and is now an expensive part of our lives. What started off as a tool intended to serve military purposes has now expanded to a social platform used by over two billion people worldwide. Unfortunately, it is now having a negative repercussion on our modern day society as we start seeing signs that magnify how flawed social media really is. Although it provides users with significant benefits, it is evident that it can promote laziness, time wastage in youth, and spread untruthful facts from untrusted sources. In the average society where technology exists, people are developing poor communication skills. They are forgetting how to engage themselves in basic conversation. “Social media causes people to spend less time interacting face-to-face.” ("Are social networking," 2014) Studies show that only 7 percent of communication is based on the written or verbal word, while 93 percent is based on nonverbal body language. For example, in the work environment of business, social media has overtaken face-to-face communications because it is easier to send a message rather than making the effort to deliver a message by a phone call or personal visit. Business communication is now done via e-mails, texts, instant messaging, intranets, blogs, websites and other technology. By avoiding face-to-face communication, conflicts and misinterpretation often occur over the tone of an email when it can be easily avoided. In an ironic twist, social media has potential to make us less social. (Tardanico) “People who use social networking sites are prone to social
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