Causes and effects of social media

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April 20th, 2018
Causes and Effects of Social Media
As the years have passed, many things have advanced in our world, including technology. Some can say it is a good thing but others may not agree. With the advancement of technology came the creation of the social world. Social Media, as we call it today, is the websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or participate in social networking. As social media continues to grow, a stronger social bond between family, friends, and even strangers is craved in this social world. Although it seems harmless, it has been proven that social media can cause a single state of mind among people and can be dangerous to our well being. This may only happen when an obsession occurs (Cacioppo p.23). Therefore despite the fact that social media has achieved to unite us and has enhanced our day to day activities it has also negatively affected humans.
To individuals, social media has influenced humans to be occupied every time and mostly in one posture a situation which has caused misbalance between mind and body. This condition has led to diseases like depression, eye problem and back pain, sleep disorder, obesity due to inactiveness hence social media users are forced to incur a high cost for their medication or complications in their lives which lovers the quality of their lives. Also despite the fact that social media enhances human communication and interaction, it ends up reducing physical interaction a state that can cause humans to cause interest in each other.

Also, social media can lead to an adverse outcome such as accidents, for instance, a driver who may be tempted to use his/her phone may end up crashing or hitting a pedestrian. Moreover on the cases of students using social media their grades are likely to drop due to poor grammar nevertheless this might not be the case to all students because they are those who have learnt more through these social media platform.
To the organization, social media has posed a threat to institutions vital information. Once the data has leaked, it will negatively affect the organization because it will spread to a vast number of people within a short period (Anderson p.40). Hackers can access the information through the social media platform such as WhatsApp that is easy to decrypt its codes thus causing leakage of the organization’s data. Also, social media can cause a reduction in the productivity of employees because most of the time they may spend on their technological gadget an act that will bring losses to the institution.
In conclusion, there is a need to initiate measures that arise with social media such as illnesses and accidents. With these measures, we will be able to mitigate the adverse outcome of social media in our society, and we will benefit and stand a chance of advancing more in our community.

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