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A Study on Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Society

B Narasimha Rao, V David, V Kalyani

Associate Professor 1,2,3

Department of ECE

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Anurag Engineering College, Kodada, Telangana

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B Narasimha Rao, V David, V Kalyani, A Study on Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Society ” Journal of

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Received: 21-11-2022 Revised: 8-12-2022 Accepted: 20-12-2022 Published: 30-12-2022

Abstract- Social media is a platform for public around the World to discuss their issues and opinions. Before knowing the actual

aspects of social media people must have to know what does social media mean? Social media is a term used to describe the

interaction between groups or individuals in which they produce, share, and sometimes exchange ideas, images, videos and many

more over the internet and in virtual communities. Children are growing up surrounded by mobile devices and interactive social

networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, Orkut which has made the social media a vital aspect of their life.

Social network is transforming the behavior in which youthful people relate with their parents, peers, as well as how they make use

of technology. The effects of social networking are twofold.[1] On the positive side, social networks can act as invaluable tools for

professionals. They achieve this by assisting young professionals to market their skills and seek business opportunities. Social

networking sites may also be used to network efficiently. On the negative side, the internet is laden with a number of risks

associated with online communities. Cyber bullying, which means a type of harassment that is perpetrated using electronic

technology, is one of the risks. In this paper we cover every aspect of social media with its positive and negative effects. Focus is on

the particular field like health, business, education, society and youth. During this paper we explain how these media will influence

the society in a broad way.

keywords: Social Media, Business, Society, Mobile Devices, Education, Cyber Bullying.

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INTRODUCTION

A social media is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar

personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. The impact of social networks on young people is significant.

It is becoming increasingly clear that social networks have become part of people‘s lives. Many adolescent people are using their laptops,

tablet computers and smart phones to check Tweets and status updates from their friends and family. Due to the advancement in

technology, people are pressured to accept different lifestyles. Social networking sites can assist young people to become more socially

capable. Social media is a web-based form of data communication. Social media platforms allow users to have conversations, share

information and create web content. Social media has different forms, together with blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, social networking sites,

photo-sharing sites, instant messaging, video-sharing sites, podcasts, widgets, virtual worlds, and more. Billions of people around the

world use social media to share information and make connections.[2] On an individual level, social media allow us to communicate with

our friends and relatives, gain knowledge of new things, develop your interests, and be entertained. On a professional level, we can make

use of social media to

expand or broaden our knowledge in a particular field and build our professional network by connecting with other professionals in our

industry. At the business level, social media allows us to have a conversation with our audience, gain customer feedback, and elevate

your brand.

Social Media is a innovative idea with a very brilliant opportunity with additional scope for advancements. With the advancement of

social media many organizations are making use of this medium to better their practices. With the use of social networking we can

advertise or communicate in a more efficient way. Likewise people don‘t have to rely on the media or TV to get their daily dose of news

it can all be obtained from a social networking site. People can track or get information from all over the world.

The introduction of the paper is given in Section I and Section II contains the Literature review and research methodology used, Section

III contains various popular sites which comes under social media, Section IV contains the Impact of Social Media on Medical and

Health, Section V contains the Impact of Social Media on Business, Section VI contains the Impact of Social Media on Education,

Section VII contains the Impact of Social Media on Society, Section VIII contains the Impact of Social Media on Kids and Teens, Section

IX describes How to handle the Social Media issues and Section X contains the Conclusion.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

As Youth and Teens are the builder of nation, and in this era they are grown up as part of the Net Generation. They can easily use

the latest technology in various forms, including smart phones, mp3 players, digital cameras, video games, iPads, electronic

readers, and personal computers. Social Media has its both positive and negative effects.

This research paper is based on secondary data collected from the online sources, different research papers and from the Google

search engine. We also used some data gathering tools (On Site Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires) for gathering

information about the usage of social media in general.

In this paper we study various social networking sites, various areas (Business and Commerce, Education, Health and medical

Education etc) in which social media is extensively used in these days with its positive and negatives aspects and guidelines for

handling the negative effects of social media on society.

POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES: Facebook

This is the largest social media network on the Internet, both in terms of total number of users and name recognition. Facebook

came into existence on February 4, 2004, Facebook has within 12 years managed to collect more than 1.59 billion monthly

active users and this automatically makes it one of the best mediums for connecting people from all over the world with your

business.[3] It is predictable that more than 1 million small and medium-sized businesses use the platform to advertise their

business.

Twitter

We might be thinking that restrictive our posts to 140 characters is no way to advertise our business, but we will be shocked to

know that this social media stage has more than 320 million active monthly users who can build use of the 140 character limit to

pass on information.[3] Businesses can use Twitter to interact with prospective clients, answer questions, release latest news and at

the same time use the targeted ads with specific audiences. Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006, and has its headquarters in

San Francisco, California.

Google+

Google+ is one of the popular social media sites in these days. Its SEO value alone makes it a must-use tool for any small business.

Google+ was propelled on December 15, 2011, and has joined the major alliances enlisting 418 dynamic million clients as of

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December 2015.

YouTube

YouTube : the biggest and most well known video-based online networking site — was established on February 14, 2005, by three

previous PayPal workers. It was laterpurchased by Google in November 2006 for $1.65 billion. YouTube has more than 1 billion

site guests for every month and is the second most well known internet searcher behind Google.[4]

Pinterest

Pinterest is commonly a beginner in the online networking field. This stage comprises of computerized announcement sheets

where organizations can stick their substance. Pinterest reported September 2015 that it had obtained 100 million clients.[3]

Private ventures whose intended interest group is for the most part comprised of ladies should put resources into Pinterest as

the greater parts of its guests are ladies.

Instagram

Instagram is a visual online networking stage. The site has more than 400 million dynamic clients and is possessed by

Facebook. A significant number of its clients utilize it to post data about travel, form, sustenance, workmanship and

comparable subjects.[2] The stage is likewise recognized by its remarkable channels together with video and photograph

altering highlights. Right around 95 percent of Instagram clients additionally utilize Facebook.

Tumblr

Tumblr is a standout amongst the most hard to utilize informal communication stages, but at the same time it's a standout

amongst the most fascinating locales. The stage permits a few diverse post groups, including cite posts, talk posts, video and

photograph posts and in addition sound posts, so you are never constrained in the kind of substance that you can share.[4] Like

Twitter, reblogging, which is more similar to retweeting, is speedy and simple. The long range informal communication site

was established by David Karp in February 2007 and at present has more than 200 million sites.

Flickr

Flickr, articulated "Glint," is an online picture and video facilitating stage that was made by the then Vancouver- construct

Ludicorp in light of February 10, 2004, and later obtained by Yahoo in 2005. The stage is well known with clients who share

and install photos.[5] Flickr had more than 112 million clients and had its impression in more than 63 nations. Million of

photographs are shared day by day on Flickr.

This is social news and excitement organizing site where enlisted clients can submit substance, for example, coordinate

connections and content posts. Clients are likewise ready to arrange and decide their position on the site's pages by voting

entries up or down. Entries with the best votes show up in the best classification or primary page.

Snapchat

Snapchat is a image informing application training item that was made by Reggie Brown, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy when

they were understudies at Stanford University.[5] The application was authoritatively discharged in September 2011, and inside a

limited ability to focus time they have become hugely enrolling a normal of 100 million every day dynamic clients as of May

2015. More than 18 percent of every social medium client utilizes Snapchat.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones, PCs and tablets. This application needs Internet

connection to send images, texts, documents, audio and video messages to other users that have the app installed on their

devices.[5] Launched in January 2010, WhatsApp Inc. was purchased by Facebook on February 19, 2004, for about $19.3 billion.

Today, more than 1 billion persons make use of the administration to speak with their companions, friends and family and even

clients.

BizSugar

BizSugar is a person to person communication stage and specialty asset for entrepreneurs, business visionaries and directors. The

site was made in 2007 by DBH Communications, Inc., a supplier of honor winning business distributions, and later obtained by

Small Business Trends LLC, in 2009.[4] The stage enables clients to share recordings, articles, blog entries, podcast among other

substance. It additionally enables clients to view and vote on entries by different individuals.

Delicious

This site was established by Peter Gadjokov and Joshua Schachter in 2003 and obtained in 2005 by Yahoo. Before the finish of

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2008, Delicious guaranteed that it had bookmarked 180 million URLs and procured more than 5.3 million clients. In January this

year, Delicious Media said that it had obtained the administration.

I. IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MEDICAL

AND HEALTH

Social media provide Health Care Professionals with tools to share information and to promote health behaviors, to engage with

the public, and to educate and interact with patients, students, and colleagues. HCPs can use social media to potentially improve

health outcomes, develop a professional network, increase personal awareness of news and discoveries, motivate patients, and

provide health information to the community.

Physicians most frequently join online websites where they can read news articles, listen to experts, research medical

advancements, discuss with colleagues concerning patient issues, and network. They can explore and share ideas,

discuss practice management challenges, make referrals, disseminate their research, market their practices, or engage in health

advocacy.[4] A large number of physicians also use social media to converse directly with patients to enhance clinical care. It

is clear that social media is having a distinct consequence on healthcare systems, and that its impact is relevant both in the

developed and developing worlds.[5] Healthcare consultants provide improved healthcare to a larger number of citizens, while

clients are able to use it to empower themselves, their families and their communities.

A. Positive Effects of Social Media on Health

 Sharing of Doctors prescriptions to friends, relatives and colleagues.

 Consulting Doctors online anywhere and anytime.

 Sharing Suggestions among friends, relatives and colleagues about various diseases and its symptoms.

 Access to information in developing regions.

 Support and mutual accountability on online health forums.[6]

 Support for health-related causes.

 Helping health services to prioritize critical cases.

 Increased accountability to consumers.

 More data available to health researchers.

B. Negative Effects of Social Media on Health

 Incorrect self-diagnosis

 Potential breach of privacy

II. IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON BUSINESS

Social Media is the new buzz sector in promoting that incorporates business, associations and brands which make news,

influence companions, to make relations and make groups. Business utilize web-based social networking to upgrade an

association's execution in different ways, for example, to achieve business targets, expanding yearly offers of the association.

Web-based social networking gives the advantage as a correspondence stage that encourages two way communications

between an organization and their stock holders. Business can be advanced through different long range informal

communication destinations.[6] A considerable group of the organization advances their business by giving promotion on the

online networking with a specific end goal to draw in greatest clients. Clients can associate and collaborate with business on a

more individual level by utilizing online networking. Many organizations with the use of social media can make their strategy

to promote their Business.

A. Positive Effect of Social Media on Business

 With the use of Social Media, It is better to understand the customer requirements.

 Social Media helps in promoting the Business all over the World.

 Social Media builds deals and client maintenance through standard connection and auspicious client benefit.

 Social Media provides rich customer experiences.

 With Social media monitoring you can gain key information about your competitors.

 With the help of social media, Sharing contents about the Business faster and easier.

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 Social networking sites helps to make new customers by providing various facilities.

 It helps to increase market insight and expand out beyond your rivals with online networking.

 It also helps to increase awareness among customers for better understanding of products.

B. Negative Effect of Social Media on Business

 In business, Social Media isn't totally hazard free in light of the fact that a significant number of the fans and supporters are

allowed to post their feeling on a specific association; the negative remark can lead the association to disappointment.

 Negative customer reviews are harmful.

 Highly time consuming.

 The web is crowded with more and more content.

 A mistake made on social media is hard to rectify.

 Many of the substantial association have succumbed to the programmers.

 The wrong online brand system can fate an organization, and put at a tremendous viral social drawback.

 Getting included with Social Media is extremely time consuming. As an association you ought to appoint a man to

dependably support your pages and profile with noteworthy substance.

 Most organizations experience issues measuring the consequences of web-based social networking promoting.

III. IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON EDUCATION

Social networking technologies also allow one to share a thought with anotherIt helps a man toward one side of the world to

interface and trade thoughts with a man at the other side.[2] With the use of social media students can easily communicate or share

information quickly with each other through various social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, and Instagram etc.

A. Positive Effect of Social Media on Education

One can adopt its benefits to gain positive results in education.

Socializing:

An important part of growing up, is to socialize and make friends. Why this is important?[2] It is because, it allows the

children to exchange ideas and learn new things. This will invariably result in them becoming more confident in life.

Sharing knowledge:

It provides an easy and an effective way in which students can share knowledge. Students can simply access the

information, study, transform (if needed) and share. Hence, the flow of knowledge becomes smooth.

Updating oneself:

hey will have the capacity to know new things as and when it happens. This causes them refresh their own particular

information base.

Learning from various sources:

The long range interpersonal communication advances are worked in such a way, to the point that understudies will have the

capacity to pick the gathering, movement or the individual they would need to take after for every day refreshes. The ways of

learning is plenty.

Being Prepared:

The social networking technologies are all about showcasing the trends that run around the world. Students can setup a plan of

what might be expected out of them in the future by observing the changes that are being updated, shared, discussed or spoken

about on the social networking sites.

Sharing what they feel or think:

Students frequently don't get the right stage to share their feelings. Through social networking technologies they are given an

option to sound their thoughts. If students were permitted to share what they think and feel, it becomes simple for them to

decide what is good and what is bad.

 Social media gives a path to the understudies to adequately achieve each other with respect to class wanders, group

assignments or for help on homework assignments.[5]

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