Students And Social Media- Positive and Negative effects of Social Media

What is Social Media?

•      Social media is basically “The relationship that exist between network of people.”

•      Social Media is known as  ‘Social Space.’ It is a social space for people who want to communicate with each other and want to stay together

Students and Social Media:

•      Social media websites are gaining popularity from the last ten years

•    Students spend a lot of time on social media such as Facebook, Youtube, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc

•      Social media play a positive as well as the negative role in student’s education

Positive effects of Social Media:

•      Social media is attractive. It is a good way to release pressure from a student’s mind

•      It helps students to make connections with other people, relatives, and friends.

•      helps students to stay connected with one another and share opinions and ideas.

•      helps in increasing and modifying creativity in students.

•      Through surfing different websites, students can increase their knowledge and awareness.

•      It saves time to get knowledge about any topic.

•      Through social media, students can do open communication that helps in the discovery and delivery of new ideas.

•      Students can get all information about healthcare

•      students can ask questions, post news and share links of any information.

Negative effects of Social Media:

•      students are getting an addiction to social media.

•      They are spending a lot of time in those social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram etc which are seriously degrading the student’s performance in their studies.

•      Mostly students may addict to use these social networking sites whole day to mid night, which is causing many dangerous effects on their health for example weakening of eye sight

•      Social media definitely effecting students’ efficiencies as well as their grades.

 

Conclusion:

There are both negative and positive pressures of social media on student’s life. But we have to use these social networking sites carefully by keeping in view towards our academics. There is need to better balance the relationship between social media and academics.