Disadvantages in using social Media

Disadvantages In using Social Media

Nowadays, People are able to share their thoughts and opinion about certain things via social media. Social media was created around 1997 and it is still commonly used today. Social Media allows people to share things with their friends from all around the globe. Although it may seem good but there are actually disadvantages in using Social Media. Here are some of the disadvantages of using social media

1. "it gives people license to be hurtful"

       Since Social media allows people to express ideas, therefore there are no restrictions as to what you can say. Although it sounds good but all the time. There are cases wherein the writer of the post can say bad things about a certain person which might hurt the person. So if you are that type to get hurt easily, I recommend that you stay away from social media.

On the other hand, you can always ignore posts that you might find offensive. Anyways, this is a disadvantage because it can lead to cyber bullying which is a kind of bullying that is done by any social media platform.

2. "Decreases Face-to-Face communication skills"

        In social media you could also talk to people, but sometimes, not face-to-face. Most of the time, people talk to them by text. when you use text in communicating with people, you won't see them face-to-face and you won't know their true emotions unless you talk to them in person. This of course, becomes much of a disadvantage because you might get anxiety when you talk to a person in real time.

3. "facilitates laziness"

       When you are doing something and you enjoy it, you don't want to stop doing it right? Well, mostly people today spend too much time on social media to the point where they don't want to stop from using it. Turns out, this makes them lazy to do simple things for example, instead of running to your friend's house to talk, you will just send them messages. This becomes a disadvantage because we also need to do some physical activity in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

4."Causes Distractions" 

         According to this site(https://habitgrowth.com/social-media-distraction/), an average person spends a quarter of his workday browsing social media which lessens productivity. Imagine, you come home from school with homework to do. After eating dinner, you go up to your room and open up your social media account. After two hours, you are still doing the same thing. In this situation, the person fails to do his homework because he was using social media. Moral lesson: Do your homework first before opening social media.

So those are some of the disadvantages in using social media. Which of these are you currently facing? Can you relate to some of these? Kindly leave a comment and make sure to tell your friends.