an overview of the pros and cons of social networking
Pros and Cons of Social Networking
Social networking sites are rapidly gaining popularity among the youth today. The basic purpose of these sites is to bring families and friends together. Along with the clear purpose of these sites, many people have also misused this medium. This article will give you some positives and negatives of social networking.
- The role and future of social networking sites is to maintain simple and easy interaction among people. Friends who have lost touch can again connect with each other and always stay in touch. Also, with the various privacy settings, one can customize their profiles and categorize their friends and family accordingly, and make groups to make chatting easy. These sites always help people to stay connected most of the time, and makes sharing and talking easy.
- Other than only connecting with friends, many people can even meet and talk to other people who come from different countries, and get to know their culture and way of living. It is good platform for getting to know different people.
- Also, it provides us with cheaper communication. Through these websites, promoting your business idea is simple, as one can find potential clients by just sitting at home.
- Sharing pictures and videos is also possible through these sites. They give the opportunity to create your albums and videos, and post them in your profile.
- With the facility of sharing pictures and also chatting, the distance between people has reduced too.
- These sites require people to create their own profile on the site. These profiles are created out of revealing one's personal details, which could be misused by other unknown people.
- The profile demands the certain interests and contact details that could cause a problem for youngsters.
- There are certain sites that provide privacy settings, by which one can hide all their personal information to strangers, and keep it visible to only known friends. However, many are not aware of these privacy settings and do not use them correctly.
- Also, some youngsters are willing to abuse someone's space or privacy, and even create a fake profile to cause them problems. In this case, the person must immediately block such a profile, which will stop such kind of disturbances to their privacy.
- Online scams, stalking, identity theft, etc., are other huge and stressful problems that are caused under these sites.
- There is also a possibility of your account being hacked. This could be a huge problem as the hacker might tend to forward obscene pictures or send messages through your account to your social network. To avoid this, one must keep a check on the privacy settings, and the password must be renewed from time to time.
- Last but not the least, millions of people around the world are addicted to these networking mediums, and for no constructive purposes, which results in a lot of waste of productive time that could be used for something better.