The Use of Social Networking Platforms


5 Advantage and Disadvantage of using social networks.
Advantage:
1.      Connectivity - It is the first and main goal of the social media because you can communicate to your relatives within across countries or people around the world.
2.      Education – Using social media everyone can benefit not just the students and teachers. There are many educational matters around the world that you can learn or share through surfing in the internet. It’s either you can educate everyone or you are the who can learn from them.
3.      Help – Sometimes when we feel down or empty and we thought nobody can comfort us, you can also use the social media to share your problems and get some advices from the community. Remember that there is always a place for everything. In that case at least they can be able to help you.
4.      Information and Updates – Through the social media we can get updated from the latest happenings around the world. We can get facts by doing some research because most of the time the Television and other print media does not convey the true happenings.
5.      Promotion – If you have business or other stuffs, you can share it to public just by posting it to the social media and it will be less expensive because there is nothing to pay for the advertising.

Disadvantage:
1.      Cyberbullying – There are some instances that somebody would create a fake account and they will get your pictures and imitate some of your information to make funny stuffs and they will make fun of it. Cyberbullying is not a joke, sometimes it causes suicide to the victims. They will get trauma from what happened and start to exclude or isolate themselves from the society so their minds would fill out negative thoughts because they cannot able to think properly. So let us utilize the social media to its proper use because you cannot get back the life of every individuals who committed suicide by just one click. 
2.      Addiction – Nowadays, children have exposed to the use of social media at early age. Being addicted to the internet or other online games can isolate them to the society because they are just inside their homes utilizing their selves in the social media. They have no time for some recreational activities that would exercise their whole bodies.
3.      Cheating and Relationship Issues – Through the social media some people found their partners or their ‘Mr. or Ms. Right’ but there are some instances that their relationships get sucks because of the cheating. You will find a lot of temptations on the social media so others got tempted that causes cheating on their relationships.
4.      Health Issues – If you get addicted to it you will get some health issue because you have no time to exercise, you will get lazy because of the thought that it will make your work easier and faster. You should limit yourself on utilizing the internet.
5.      Social Media Causes Death – Sometimes social media causes death because of what others see, they imitate some stunts that they have viewed performed by some professionals or from their idols and they tend to do it without proper practice. They think that they could do it so they follow what they have just see.


5 Precautionary measures when using social media.

  1. Never use the same passwords use different passwords on each of your social networking site. Use a strong password, the longer it is, the more secure it will be.
  2. Do not log in your social network page/accounts from public computers because someone could get on to it and might have installed a key logger and could get access to your credentials. Always make sure that you log out after using the public computers.
  3. Do not send confidential information through a social networking site even if someone who has legitimate access to that information asks you to. Because he might blackmail you and use it against you. He can use screenshots as a proof. So think before you click.
  4. Always be skeptical. Limit your friend requests and be selective. If you are not familiar with the name then do not accept it because it could be a fake account, check first his profile. Also about the offers or prizes saying that you won, they might actually a scam or phishing attacks.
  5. Make sure that your computer is up to date and installed good antivirus protection; because most of the time social networking sites are frequent targets of malware attacks.

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