Social Media: Harnessing Its Power in Communication and Business

Social Media is internet-based software which empower individuals interact with one another. It is a form of communicating and giving information to people such as professional information, personal photos, thoughts and ideas, news articles and many more. In business, social media is used to reach out customers in informing them of sales, offering special discounts, advertising product, etc. Anyone can interact with millions of people online. That is why we have these social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Snapchat, Youtube, etc to make an interaction to people. It is not necessary to be a journalist, a blogger or a news anchor to be able to share thoughts or ideas to an enormous audience. Social Media has

It has a better and worse view to people. Many say it is a form of distraction especially to teens and/or students and many reprehend its public nature. Yet, despite of its issues, modern life would be very different if social media was not introduced or if it is taken out. Social Media allows social interaction. Remember when Facebook was introduced to mass? Many, or should I say, All of us opened an account and it helped us to get back in touch with our old friends we had drifted away from and catch up. For now, we use facebook to communicate with our friends, teachers, group mates since it is not hard to communicate because most of us have an access to internet. Social media is not just for getting back in touch with people we already know but also for getting to meet and getting to know new people. Social media or the social networking sites are great platform to get in touch and start new friendship. I, as a student and a fan girl, social media is really a big help to interact with people from different races. In twitter, I had friends from other countries since we have common interest (a fan of a kpop group). I learned how to treasure online friendship. Of course, not only in interacting, a social media is good with. Social media helps an individual to keep up with trending topics. Every minute, news is being updated. News reaches the farthest corners of the world through social media, making world a

Using social media can make a person more vulnerable to cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is the common case of a misuse of social media. People tend to just say their opinions and thoughts without filtering their words. Cyber bullying is an emotional wound which leads to an emotional scar and can possibly result to death. It is more painful that a wound on our knees. Social media can cause to people to have hard time with face-to-face or personal interaction. It may also lead to addiction especially to students or teenagers. They get involved extensively where they forgot their main priorities. Social media also leads to plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking someone’s thoughts or ideas without recognizing the owner of the idea. It is not appropriate to take someone’s thoughts. It is much heavy than taking someone’s personal