Navigating the Pros and Cons of Social Media’s Influence

Social Media is a collection of online communication channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content sharing, and collaboration.

Some commonly known communication websites are:

• Facebook.
• Instagram.
• Twitter.
• WeChat.

The emergence of social media has created a new avenue for facilitating daily information and communication. As technology expands and grows, our range of communication and social media is becoming a vital tools for daily interaction. It creates an opportunity for people to interact with each other in a way that is helpful and essential to motivate people socially. The rapid-fire quick communication style that captivates the millennials and other generations has shifted our conversation from “face-to-face” instances to “through-the-screen” ones.

Language:

Language is simply the way of communicating one person with another person. According to a very rough estimate, about 6900 languages are spoken throughout the world today. Social networks have become the central facilitator for daily communication with peers, family, and acquaintances. It affects our relationships and decreases the quality of interpersonal communication. Another impairment of communication skills caused by the extensive use of social media platforms is the impoverishment of language. Using messenger, people often use shortened versions of words in order to type and deliver their messages as quickly as possible.

Shortened versions like

“K,” “btw,” “tc,” “gr8,” “da,” and so on completely ruins the grammar and syntax. It also develops the use of slang terms, and sometimes people tend to forget that they are neglecting the beauty of language when they are busy online with social media. Slang has been added to this language, and we use this in our daily life too. We express our emotions in the form of emojis. It is also a very simple way to express your feelings.

Social media and social life:

Social media plays a very important role in our social life, and social media has become a very important part of our social life. We use social media for many things like we use social media for finding and sharing the same information, shopping, for entertainment. There are a few ways that social media can improve people’s lives. And through a rough estimate of mine, about 80% of people are regularly active on social media through different applications like WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, and so on. On the other hand, social media may begin to have a negative impact on our social life.

We prefer to buy things online instead of going to the market. It effects our social relationships. Social media and online communication are believed to be having an adverse effect on social skills and communication among adolescents. Long ago, the time when social media did not exist, and social communication and interaction were the only way of communication. In the era of technology, social media interactions now dominate both online and offline conversation. In a society where interacting and over-sharing are the norm, you are probably more likely to speak to friends and family through electronic devices than face-to-face. Often at events or parties, guests are attached to their mobile phones. As more generations are born into the social age, social media will continue to be favored communication among young people. However, this shift may begin to affect their ability to communicate properly in person with the press.

Physical and Mental health:

Social Media provide us with a lot of information about fitness and good health and how we can maintain our health and figure. By subscribing to different fitness pages, we can see their post in which the trainers show us different exercises step by step. Yoga is the best exercise for physical as well as mental health. We can learn about yoga only by subscribing to different pages on YouTube and Instagram, and other pages that are about health show us different remedies for skin care, hair growth, and others. We can learn many things about our health through Social Media. Also, social media provide a lot of entertainment to a person that free time a person can use to relax his mind.

On the other hand, social media also affect our physical and mental health due to overuse of social media can disturb our physical health like

• People are becoming obese.
• Joints pain.
• Laziness.

And mental health like

• Depression.
• Brain cancer due to high rays of the phone.
• Nervous breakdown.
• Eye disorders.

Economy:

Social media plays a very vital role in maintaining or increasing the economic level of a country. That there are a lot of positive effects of social media on the Economy.

Brand systems have been a major change on the demand side with increased clear customer engagement and also an overall change in customer behaviors. Social media also introduced different and unique technology to companies through which they can increase their economic situation. Social media also provide new opportunities and connect people, brands, and businesses more efficiently. Through online business, we can easily make money at home. Today there are thousands of people who earn money through social media Tiktok is the best example that those people who have more than 5M followers can easily earn two lacs rupees from a social media platform.

But sometimes customers complain about the products and services you offer directly on Social media. We can buy clothes, jewelry, makeup product, and decoration pieces through our favorite shops like Daraz, etc. You offer directly on Social Media without even getting in touch with them at first. The negative posts keep piling up on Social Media company profiles which creates a general distaste among your followers.

Culture:

Social media has a great effect on our culture. Social media has been a major part of our daily lives. It totally affected our culture in positive and negative ways. Social media improves creativity and social awareness of our society by interacting with other people and sharing new ideas and opinions. Our Islam is a complete religion and teaches us that we have to spend simple life, and it is not allowed in Islam to spend a lot of money on stupid events that are created by man or other countries. For example, we have to do a simple nikkah and then after it a simple reception that is according to our Islam, but nowadays people are spending their money on stupid events just to tell others that we are very rich and modern, but actually that is just waste of money and time that’s it. Also, Allah doesn’t like such kind of things.

Another example is that Social Media is influenced by Western culture. Many useless posts on social media have become a trend, and the youth of today try to follow that trend without thinking that is this trend suit on them or not. Today peoples spend their lives according to Western-style that on weddings, girls wear vulgar dresses that are totally not allowed in Islam and then post it on Social media so that they can gain some fame, but in return, this acts some backward peoples make bad comments and use rough language that is not good. Instead of promoting our culture, social media promote Western culture. That is why social media destroy our culture by almost 90%.

Spiritual connection of user:

Social media provides a lot of information about the world. Social media provide us with every kind of fun, about the latest trends, we can watch the people who are very far away from us. Due to the overuse of Social Media maximum amount of people are facing depression which is now a major issue in the world. Social Media has turned society into non-serious content, for example, glamour, style, fashion, etc. Peoples waste whole days using Social media, and because of overuse of Social Media, they lose their peace of mind. Most people try to gain whatever they see on the screen, and if they can’t find it, they cry out to God. And some go into depression when their desires are not fulfilled, and they start blamed to God for such things. Because of these things, the spiritual connection of a person with God becomes very week and bygone.

Social media is a vast platform of unlimited knowledge. As a student, we can collect a lot of information about our field. We should use Social Media for studies, for online business, and for other important purposes, but shouldn’t it make it live? We should try to have a positive and happy life. We shouldn’t try to destroy our life and values through social media.

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