What are the benefits of social media? Reflection on social media. Social media, in recent years has provided people with fast,convinient ways to communicate with other people from around the world. People can use social media to do research, communicate with others or do their work online and their services are usually free. However many people believe that there certain downsides to their convenience. Social media has suffered some bad publicity from things like identity thefts, fake profiles, and online predators. Nonetheless, social media is still popular for its great conveniences and features. Specifically for creating a comfortable and entertaining atmosphere, helping people improve their social skills, providing interesting information for users to learn and expand their knowledge and most importantly, build meaningful relationships. The most common form of social media is social networking sites. This sites allow users to connect and share information with others. Some examples of social networking sites are Facebook, Myspace,and Twitter. I think that social networking sites can provide a deeper and more fulfilling web experience. They create a comfortable and entertaining atmosphere for people to interact with each other. They can even be tought of as virtual playgrounds where people can hang out, meet each other, and even play different games with each other. I think the biggest advantage of social networking sites is the ability to maintain and build relationships in whole new way. I also have a chance to connect with new people. It is amazing, because I’ve met some of my best friends through social networking, particularly facebook, instagram, etc.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using social media? Social media is one of the most common ways for people to communicate anywhere and anytime in modern society. Although, many people are starting to see negative effects arise from the use of social media as well. These negative effects are increasing and becoming more problematic everyday. The disadvantages of social media of outweigh the advantages. Social media affects everyone in society, especially teenagers negatively impacting their lives, face to face interactions, and mental health. Social media is causing teenagers to be negatively influenced. This is an issue, because teenager are extremely impressionable and social media is negatively impacting their lives each day whether they are conscious of this or not.