Over the past few years, the impact of social media has been dramatic and exponential. In this intensity and speed of growth, many unintended consequences were overlooked or maybe not thought of. I will try to cover some of the unintended consequences of social media which were good, bad and ugly.
World wide web being the game changer in the early 90’s. People got a new way to communicate wirelessly from any corner to any corner in the world. Started with email, then instant messaging. And then combining many features at once, social media became a common platform for a huge population over the word. For e.g., Facebook has 1.7 billion currently active users.
Good:
With the growing pace of social media, people all over the world are able …show more content…
https://www.cs.duke.edu/forbes/papers/sigcse2006.pdf
Communication with businesses are effective. People can now tell the companies what they really want and the companies can tailor their products accordingly. Social media also collects our likes and dislikes to target us with advertisements which we might find good and helpful. This indirectly creates many jobs alongside.
Also social media helps in connecting like minded people to connect with each other and talk/discuss about issues. Cause of this, many NGO’s get known and we are able to give back to the world by helping and providing support to the people in need.
Bad:
Sites like Craigslist allow users to create non-verified accounts and post anonymously to sell goods and services online which can be very risky. To compete this issue, recently, Facebook introduced a new feature called Marketplace where the users can buy and sell stuff from friends or strangers. This lead to people doing illegal activities such as selling drugs, sexual services, baby hedgehogs …show more content…
This leads to people using It every now and then in their phones, tablets and personal computers. Studies have shown that excessive use of social media, which is inevitable for most of the people have drowned our attention span from twelve minutes to five minutes in 10 years. http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/attention-spans-have-dropped-from-12-minutes-to-5-seconds-how-social-media-is-ruining-our-minds-infographic/87484
Researchers have found that the more you use social media, the more you are prone to depression. This makes sense because, the more a person spends time in social media, the more he is consuming information about others. The life of others might seem more interesting and fun than of our own. And constantly comparing their lives with our own might stir up sad emotions leading to to depression. http://theheartysoul.com/mental-health-risks-of-social-media/
Another social anxiety triggered by online media is the fear of missing out. Also called as FOMO in short. Pictures of a party where the user was not invited, or yet another wedding they weren 't able to attend cause of their demanding work schedule can take a toll on self-esteem. https://www.anxiety.org/social-media-causes-anxiety
Compared to the good side of spreading information and news with our peers and friends, On the contrary social media can also help as a catalyst for false information over the world wide
World wide web being the game changer in the early 90’s. People got a new way to communicate wirelessly from any corner to any corner in the world. Started with email, then instant messaging. And then combining many features at once, social media became a common platform for a huge population over the word. For e.g., Facebook has 1.7 billion currently active users.
Good:
With the growing pace of social media, people all over the world are able …show more content…
https://www.cs.duke.edu/forbes/papers/sigcse2006.pdf
Communication with businesses are effective. People can now tell the companies what they really want and the companies can tailor their products accordingly. Social media also collects our likes and dislikes to target us with advertisements which we might find good and helpful. This indirectly creates many jobs alongside.
Also social media helps in connecting like minded people to connect with each other and talk/discuss about issues. Cause of this, many NGO’s get known and we are able to give back to the world by helping and providing support to the people in need.
Bad:
Sites like Craigslist allow users to create non-verified accounts and post anonymously to sell goods and services online which can be very risky. To compete this issue, recently, Facebook introduced a new feature called Marketplace where the users can buy and sell stuff from friends or strangers. This lead to people doing illegal activities such as selling drugs, sexual services, baby hedgehogs …show more content…
This leads to people using It every now and then in their phones, tablets and personal computers. Studies have shown that excessive use of social media, which is inevitable for most of the people have drowned our attention span from twelve minutes to five minutes in 10 years. http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/attention-spans-have-dropped-from-12-minutes-to-5-seconds-how-social-media-is-ruining-our-minds-infographic/87484
Researchers have found that the more you use social media, the more you are prone to depression. This makes sense because, the more a person spends time in social media, the more he is consuming information about others. The life of others might seem more interesting and fun than of our own. And constantly comparing their lives with our own might stir up sad emotions leading to to depression. http://theheartysoul.com/mental-health-risks-of-social-media/
Another social anxiety triggered by online media is the fear of missing out. Also called as FOMO in short. Pictures of a party where the user was not invited, or yet another wedding they weren 't able to attend cause of their demanding work schedule can take a toll on self-esteem. https://www.anxiety.org/social-media-causes-anxiety
Compared to the good side of spreading information and news with our peers and friends, On the contrary social media can also help as a catalyst for false information over the world wide