Pros and Cons of Social Media

Nowadays everyone uses social media; it became nearly the only way of communication and interacting with on another by sharing our ideas and experience especially between our new generations. But while using social media, have you ever thought about the pros and cons of it? And before this have you ever thought of what is social media in the first place?

The exact meaning of social media is, a group of internet-based applications that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content, moreover, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content.

There are many pros for using social media.
1. Ease of access since all you need is a computer or mobile phone with an Internet connection, and then you can easily use any kind of social media.
2. It helps us to keep in touch with all our relatives and friends from any place around the world in an easier and faster way than we used to do before we start using social media, for example, Facebook, Twitter, and Skype all these are social networking that allow us to communicate and interact with other people.
3. It is perfect for anyone to express their opinion on any issue they want without restrictions, and interact with people sharing the same opinion or even different opinion.
4. It is a good place for advertising, since there are a large number of people using it. It is even easier if you are non-profit organization to advertise your product, because your product will be seen and shared by millions who are using social media everyday and all this is for free. So now this is the easiest way to promote your product or even sometimes for a company to improve its reputation by advertising.
5. Gathering information is much easier now. You have many social networking that you can easily find on it any kind of information you’re looking for.
6. For those who are searching for local or abroad jobs, social networking is a powerful search engines


Like any other thing, social media has its cons.
1. While using any kind of social networking it can take a lot from your time. You find that you have wasted a lot of time without doing any other activity or without spending time with your family.
2. Lack of face-to-face communication. Since all our communication nowadays with our friend or relatives is through any kind of social networking, for example sometimes we feel that there is no need to go and see any of our relatives because we can already talk with each other through social media.
3. Opens up the possibility for hackers to commit virus attacks.
4. On social networks you might lose some privacy.
5. Some people make fake accounts on Facebook for example, so information provided on some accounts isn’t always true. So you must pay attention not to add anyone you don’t know.


Social media has its cons like it has its pros, but we cannot say that we won’t use it because it has cons. What we are suppose to do as users we must put in mind the cons before being so excited by all the pros that social media offers. We must know its entire cons and know how to deal with it and take many advantage of using it as possible as we can.