Social networking essay

Advantages and disadvantages of social networking

Nowadays, social networking is a part of everyday life and it brings revolutionary changes in communication between people. Social networking has a lot of advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages are allow us to communicate with our family, friends and relatives, obtain the latest news and help us to do our work easily. However, some disadvantages are teenagers may become addicted to social networking and a lot of unreliable information on the networking. In this way, we must be careful to use social networking and to identify the purpose of social networking that is positives and negatives. Firstly, one of advantages is social networking allows us to communicate with family, friends and relatives easily even though their location are not same. For example, we can use face to face service to communicate in different country by using social networking. We can share our feelings, pictures and a lot of stuffs to people that we are familiar. It can improve our relationship and also know in each other what their expression clearly. Next, we can also concern about their current situation directly.

Secondly, social networking helps us to obtain the latest news. For instance, when we see the accident or special situation from outdoor, we can just capture the photo and post it on the social networking. So, we can obtain the latest news directly. From the news, we can take action to prevent accidents that have been highlighted in the news. That can also reduce the percentage of accidents or the percentage of crimes in Malaysia. That is good news for the world. Furthermore, social networking can help us to do our work easily, especially the students and the employees. Students can discuss the works or projects directly with their group members. It can give different kinds of ideas or suggestions easily. It can also culture teamwork at the same time. Employees can use the social networking as a tool to promote their products to customers. They can post their advertisement easily to attract the customers with their products by using social networking. It also easily gets the transaction successful, if their products are good. A coin has two kinds of faces. However, there are also a lot of disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is teenagers get addicted by using social networking websites. They have a strong desire to do or have something regularly like teenagers just focus what they are fond.

As an instance, teenagers used to spend hours in those social networking sites which can obviously affect their academic performance. Therefore, teenagers may not enough time to do their revision and homework. They may tend to use to these social networking sites till midnight or even more which can lead to health related problems obviously. In addition, fraudsters always make something that very harmful to people. They always cheat ignorant people and share a lot of untrue information by using social networking. Teenagers that do not have alertness, they may provide their personal information to the stranger, especially the girls. A few years ago, had a girl was been raped by a fraudster. It was because of that girl gave the personal information to that fraudster. So that fraudster easy to cheat her and damaged the girl’s life. Therefore, all the girls must be careful by using social networking. Fraudsters also create a fake website to cheat the people and cause them loss their money or something that valuable.

They also post a lot of untrue information to make people to confuse from that information by using social networking. In conclusion, we can use their advantages and disadvantages clearly. It can bring us helpful but it also brings us harmful. We can improve the relationship between family, friends and relatives. We can also take action to prevent accidents that have been highlighted in the news. People can discuss their works with other person or promote something by using social networking. However, teenagers spend hours in those social networking sites which can obviously affect their academic performance. There also a lot of fraudsters cheat the people and cause them loss their money or something that valuable. We must use the social networking carefully and avoid the problems that really damage our life seriously. As a Malaysian, we must concentrate the problems and try to solve it for reduce the percentage of bad news by using the social networking.