Positive and Negative Effect of Social Media

Akmal Ali Aliuddin

UNIPMA

Email: aliakmar97@gmail.com 

In the current era of globalization, there is a lot of social media. It can not be denied that almost everyone from teenagers, children to parents certainly know the social media name facebook, twitter, instagram and many others. In my opinion for users we should be able to choose not to let social media can we fall.

And then the following are the positive and negative impacts of social media or internet:

• Positive impact of social media.

• As a medium of information storage. Which is very easy to spread through social networking sites. In just a few minutes after the incident, we have been able to see and watch the news information. Whet her it is politics, religion, breaking news and so on.
• Make it easier to spend. Such as selling goods on social media, online shops, men and women, it is very easy to do, and this allows small entrepreneurs to promote their products and services without spending a lot of money. Especially for students who need money with a fairly easy side job. They are enough to capitalize on mobile phones and quotas enough to be able to promote it, ranging from friends to friends, neighbors, marketplaces even in e-commerce stores such as (shopee, lazada, tokopedia, And others).
• Social media can connect the ropes and make it easier for us or people who have distant relatives and families, this social network is very useful and serves to reunite families and relatives who are far from us, and who are far from us, and who are far from the old who have not met. This can be done through social media such as video call.
• Social networking sites become a very easy way for us to get acquainted with everyone, even get acquainted with strangers by relying on the internet.
• Moreover, we are still in the situation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, well with the social media we can use the internet as a medium for online learning to reduce the rate of spread of the COVID-19 virus. not even a few workers / students who prefer to choose their work or online learning.

• The negative effects of social media:

• Starting from social media there are often crimes such as fraud, murder, rape, kidnapping, And others.
• It's hard to socialize with your people around. Because the use of social media makes addiction and users lazy to communicate with the real world. This I think is very true, has a friend who is very active in social media, he always posts whatever he does. But it's a lot different from reality. People who are active on social media are in fact quiet people and do not get along much.
• Because the use of social media more often uses informal language in everyday life so that the formal language becomes forgotten, if not good at controlling, otherwise we will fall into promiscuity, because we cannot keep speech.
• media social sites will make a person more selfish, they become unaware of the surrounding environment because they spend too much of their time using the internet.
• Social media can make children and teenagers become negligent and also can not divide the time because it is too cool with the virtual world, which does not know how it looks like. Especially for a student, if already addicted then they are more momenting it than necessary, even willing to set aside pocket money if it really needs internet quota and top up online games.

Therefore, there is no need to be too significant to follow the times, what we need is to be clever in choosing ways in association on social media lest we fall into negative internet things then on the contrary we are the ones who have to use internet media as well as possible.