Analysis: What Harm Does Social Media Bring?

What Harm Can Social Media Bring? Social Media is used in every aspect of the average American’s life, to include business, personal, or even religious purposes. The use of social media has been around for years, starting with such companies as AOL and has increased over the years. In 2004, the face of social media changed with the creation of Facebook and just a few years after going public in 2006 the use of social media has expanded to other companies such as Twitter, and Instagram. With the companies beginning to merge and adjust to smartphones the apps created become an important part of life to be "socially accepted". As seen in many companies and also public institutions utilize the use of social media to better themselves, but what impacts is social media having in the workplace or public institutions? When discussing social media it is important for companies and institutions to consider the effects on social skills, a limitation and loss of privacy, and the use of social media leading to a lack of productivity. Are social skills important while pursing a career or when studying to receive a degree? What if there was …show more content…
Bond talks about friendships that occur over the internet and the lack of close friends that human beings once had. When Facebook was created, its sole purpose was to better the lives of college students, which was achieved through finding people that will flirt, gossip, support emotionally, and just "be there for you". There was a study from 2006 to 2009 explaining the amount of online friends and if it had increased or decreased over a three year period. For an average college student in 2006 they had 137 friends on social media, which increased drastically in 2009 to 440 friends. Was the increase of friends over those three years because of being social in a college atmosphere? Or did they just recognize them on Facebook and decided that they could be "high-tech"