what are the advantage and disadvantages of social media?

what are the advantage and disadvantages of social media?

In the last few years, social media has been progressing incredibly. The rate of development from 2006 to the present is quite high. Especially Facebook and YouTube are progressing very rapidly. According to Google sources, there are 16,63,68,149 Facebook users in Bangladesh, both fake and real, which is more than 4 percent of Asia. Day by day, people are benefiting from social media. Social media has brought many benefits to a social system. From developed countries to underdeveloped countries, everyone is using the power of social media. On the other hand, there are some negative aspects of social media in society.

Using the power of social media to do something positive, which is entrusted to a user. But willingly or unwillingly, the negative impact of social media comes on the user. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of social media for the social system. So let's start with the disadvantages. Because, the advantages are many. Because, everything has a positive effect, unless it is used as a negative.

10 Advantages of Social Media

01. Connectivity: The first and main advantage of social media is connectivity. People can communicate with anyone from anywhere. No place or religion can be a barrier. The beauty of social media is that you can communicate with any person to learn or spread your thoughts.

02. Education: Social media has many benefits for students and teachers. It is very easy to learn from experienced and professionals from any part of the world through social media.

03. Help: You can get help and guidance through this social media by describing your problem. This cooperation can be for money or for advice, which your society will help you get.

04. Information and Updates: The main advantage of social media is that you can always stay updated. Many times, print media and TV channels behave biasedly. So social media plays a big role in getting real information.

05. Promotion: Whether your business is offline or online, you can reach a lot of potential customers through social media. The whole world is open to you, so you can promote to everyone. Social media helps your business to be more profitable and cost less.

06. Community: Social media plays a big role in building a community. Activities like NGOs, social service, donations, etc. can be promoted on social media. In addition, cooperation for the poor can be exchanged through this social media.

07. Awareness: Social media creates awareness and improves the quality of life. It adds creative and new elements to people's daily lives.

08. Helps the government and security agencies: Through social media, the government and security agencies can keep an eye on misdeeds and take strict action against terrorism.

09. Spreading the reputation of a business: Just as social media can kill a business, it can also increase the sales of another business - and at the same time gain good reputation.

10. Creating groups: Since there are different religions and beliefs in the world, social media helps us to join and learn about our own religion and ideology. Similarly, one can join groups of different opinions in different countries and participate in discussions related to that.

10 disadvantages of social media

01. Cyber bullying: A report by Chhabibhavat.com says that in the past, most children were victims of cyber bullying. Anyone can open fake accounts and do whatever they want without being caught. Bullying has become much easier on the internet. Threats, intimidation, rumors - which make society restless.

02. Hacking: Personal information and privacy can be hacked very easily and can be spread on the internet in an instant, which can cause economic loss and make personal life miserable. Similarly, information related to one's account can be lost and cause financial loss. These are serious disadvantages of social media.

03. Addiction: Social media addiction can be very bad and personal life can lose its grip. Teenagers are especially affected. They get involved very badly and become isolated from society.

04. Fraud and scams: Several types of fraud can be observed, which happen most of the time and are involved in various misdeeds through social media.

05. Security: Nowadays, security agencies have access to personal accounts, making it impossible to protect privacy. If you ever accidentally or unknowingly discuss something on your account, the security agency officer will see it, which you may not even realize.

06. Reputation: Social media can easily destroy someone's reputation by making up false stories and spreading them on social media. Similarly, any business can also face losses due to such activities.

07. Fraud and relationships: Many people propose love or marriage through this social media. Similarly, they tell each other fake feelings and deceive each other with wrong information.

08. Health: Excessive use of social media can cause health problems. Exercising is good for the body and spending too much time sitting on social networks makes you lazy, which has a bad effect on your daily routine.

09. Social media can cause death: Social media is not only a reason for use, but you can also face death by doing the crazy activities that are shared on the internet.

10. Glamour, drugs and alcohol: The biggest problem with social media is that many people follow some rich and addicted people on the internet. As a result, they are encouraged to have negative thoughts and activities.