SOCIAL MEDIA

IMPACTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS    

Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people or companies to create, share, or exchange information, career interests, one ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and network. Social media originated as strictly a personal tool that people used to interact with friends and family but were later adopted by businesses that wanted to take advantage of a popular new communication method to reach out to customers, for example, by informing them of sales and offering them special coupons.

Connect with friends through social networks such are twitter, Facebook, instagram   and you tube, we can create groups were we can share different information among people from different places ,also through social network we interact with people with similar interest ,as interaction continues some people become good friends through social networks.

Broaden community, through social network virtual community are formed, these are societies which shows the reality of what people do through shared information, the increase in sharing of information led to expansion of community in social networks 

Enhance creative thinking, social media are now used by different people with different thinking capacity and also the aim of using social media differ from one person to another, some people uses social networks for business through inline business will others uses social network as source of income example by advertising though social networks like instagram also designers uses social network to increase their creativity.

Foster sense of identity, social networks facilitates identification of a person or product were one can identify a person on Facebook or instagram or product without  physical contact also we can differentiate one product from another due to uniqueness of each product things like color, package and other factors.

 Increase access to information, thought social networks one can acquire current information without moving from one place to another, it also simplify learning process by sharing information among uses and those user are mostly with the same interest

The growth in social media platforms has been a phenomenon helping people to communicate with a wider audience and advertise business. More recently, politicians have embraced social media. Many people struggle to keep up with the rate of change in the digital age, perhaps for good reasons.

On other hand social network’s has negative impacts , wastage of time were many people uses a lot of time online instead of performing their duties, sometimes lead moral decay were people nowadays used to post unethical photographs on social networks like instagram.

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ALLY AMINA. BAPRM 42526