Social Media Influence

Influence of Social Media: Does it Reflect Good Effects?
Technology had played a huge role in the modern life in the community. It brought us a lot of convenience and makes our tasks easier and makes life more manageable. But does it really improves our lifestyle? Does it bring us closer to each other? Or is it slowly tearing our society apart?
One of the products of technology is social media. Everybody is familiar and have an idea about it. But the knowledge that most of the people know is actually part of a wide and very broad information of what the social media can do, it’s effects, and the advantages and disadvantages it have. Social media is very useful in interacting with each other, however it has negative effects that makes a person

Social media is defined as the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Applications dedicated to forums, microblogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social curation, and wiki’s are among the different types of social media. Websites and other online means of communication that are used by large group of people to share information and develop social and professional contacts is also considered social media. There are good effects of course, but on the other hand, it also have negative influences as much as it’s positive side.
Social media allows an individual to be aware of the surroundings, but at the same time it makes the person care less with the people nearby. News and updates from different people and places are posted on social media sites. It is a good advantage of media, however too much attachment may lead to negative behaviour causing a person to care more on what’s happening on far places and people rather than those that surrounds

Getting stocked-up on their favorite social media site and surf the web for hours. Most workplace distractions are electronics. A survey conducted by harmon.ie shows that 57% of work interruptions involve either the use of social tools like email, social networks, and text messaging, or switching windows among disparate standalone tools and applications, as well as personal online activities such as Facebook and Internet searches. The remaining 43% of workplace distractions comes from activities like phone calls, talking with co-workers and ad hoc meetings. 45% of employees surveyed reported they work only 15 minutes or less without getting interrupted and 53% waste at least one hour each day due to all types of distractions. The survey found the increasingly common addiction to web-based activity - which psychologists call "online compulsive disorder" - is pervasive in the workplace. 2 out of 3 people tune out of face-to-face meetings to communicate digitally with someone else. The addiction is also taking over the personal lives of survey takers. The majority of people surveyed under the age of 40 stay digitally connected in bed and 44% of people under 30 stay connected during a night out at the movies. This behaviour leads to rudeness in attitude and lack of cooperation in the workplace.
Improper use of social media does not only cause destruction