Social Media: Its Impact and Consequences

The Effects of Social Media Social media is a phrase that’s popular these days, usually to describe what we post on websites or application like facebook, twitter, line, instagram, snapchat and others. The word “social” is refers to interacting and communicating with other people by sharing and receiving information. While “media” is refers to an instrument of communication, like internet, TV, hand phone, radio and newspaper. If we combine these two words, we can conclude that social media is communication tools that enable people to interact with each other by sharing and receiving information. Social media have both negative and positive effect for its users. First negative effect is social media makes people emotional and mentally unstable. Most of people agree that social media made them envy of others. They usually get upset after viewed their friend’s photos that having a better life than their own. I also often get envy after viewing photos on my friend’s instagram that showing expensive things, went to a concert, and went to other country to celebrate holiday. Beside makes people jealous and envious, social media also makes people become stressful, anxiety and depression. Nowadays, people use social media to bully others. Cyber bullying is growing concern in this day. They use social media to write hateful messages to harass

Nowadays, many people’s eyes are glued to their phones while they are walking and their phones screens are displaying social media pages. If this occurs every time, it will lead them to become anti social behavior. This behavior is very worrisome in our life. They prefer to talk with their virtual friends in social media rather talk to people around them, have a lack of sympathetic and don’t care about things around them. People who are involved in anti social behavior can cause a great risk to their mental and physical