Steemit Engagement Challenge / SEC-S19 / W6 | "How are social media affecting our society in both good and bad ways? "

Social media is a network of people connected for promotion, chatting, and sharing thoughts. Examples of social media include; Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. People are connected through the use of social media; some even work with the aid of social media; they make friends all over the world through social media.

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THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOCIETY

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1. Relief stress: In my country, Nigeria, people would have died of depression without social media; reading funny memes and watching funny videos gives relief from stress; we laugh out our sadness and forget about the economic hardship that is prevalent in my country. Social media helps our youth and society as a whole to be stress-free.

2. Provide Connection: Social media makes it possible for people to be connected around the globe; it provides an avenue to make friends in any country, state, or city of your choice. Social media provide links around the globe and people get connected.

3. Provide awareness: Social media makes information spread fast; when people are online, information can be spread, and everybody will have access to it anywhere at any time; social media makes people aware of the happenings around them. I don't listen to the news, but I get to know about what is happening through social media; I read my news online via social media.

4. Makes family and friends connected: Family and friends get to text each other through social media, and they create family groups to which everybody has access; they drop a message, and everybody reads it; they can even hold a family meeting via social media especially when the family members are not staying together. There are a lot of benefits social media provides to society, but in this contest, I chose to write about the four points above.

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THE EVILS CAUSED BY SOCIAL MEDIA

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1. Corruption: When social media was introduced newly, it was used for learning; a lot of people learned a lot of things from social media, but nowadays, social media promotes corruption, Teens and youth have been exposed to bad things, making it a bad influence in the society. A lot of children have signed in to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc, and are exposed to what they are supposed not to know at their age.

2. Promote Pornographic Content: You can have access to pornographic videos and photos through social media freely; opening your Facebook to check people's posts, you will just see nude pics or videos popping up, and nudity is freely given to the world. At this young age, they are exposed to pornography and, at the end of the day, practice it when they are not supposed to.

3. Social media have made young girls nowadays unable to handle house chores because they spend most of their time on their phones without learning anything; all they care about is fashion and how to be connected to big men. They even lost respect for their parents.

4. Causes death: Young girls are losing their lives because they get connected to men they don't know on social media; they decide to hook up with these men, sometimes with the hope of getting married, getting a job, and ending up losing their lives.

5. Social media is used to cause mockery to some people in society; in a country where the government is bad, people tend to attack them and mock them on social media; even pastors are being mocked on social media.

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SOCIAL MEDIA IS USEFUL FOR COMMON PEOPLE AND CORPORATE COMPANIES

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Social media is useful to both common people and corporate companies; for example, companies can use WhatsApp to hold their company meetings by creating conference calls and members will join.
Common people use social media to advertise their businesses and do some buying and selling there. Common people use social media to connect to people everywhere, corporate companies use social media to promote their services, so in all and all, social media is useful to both common people and corporate companies.

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PERSONAL OPINION ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA

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Social media have positive and negative effects, I use social media too, so I will not advise someone to spend all of his or her time on social media, I will not also advise that someone stay away from it, it is useful in one way or the other, it can also corrupt and post negative influence to someone who is addicted to it, My only humble opinion is that SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD BE USED IN MODERATION.

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CONCLUSION

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Social media is a platform where people meet, interact, connect, and pass information effectively, but at the same time, it promotes corruption, pornographic videos and photos, causes death of our youth when it is not properly used, it causes space among family members because they don't have time to discuss family issues but spent most of their time on their phone, social media should be used moderately, parents should allow their children to be upto the age of differentiating right from wrong before exposing them to gadget that will allow them to use social media, parents should also educate their children on the proper use of social media so that everyone will benefit from it.

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I invite;
@beevicsam
@eliany
@jes88

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BEST REGARDS

@blessedbee