Has Social Media Made Society More Informed or More Divided?

[Ab de villiers]

Social media has its own positive and negative sides. The good side is that it keeps you updated about current affairs and happening around the world and it has made things easier as in if you want to start a business on small scale, you can easily promote on social media platform. You learn a lot of new things on social media but one main negative thing about it is privacy concerns. Social media has opened up different kind of cyber crimes, bullying, harassment and more stuff like that. There is a need to check and limit your use of social media in order to save yourself from such problems.

It is a good way to get information and share news with others. One of the major advantages of social media is that education and information can be obtained through it. Students can easily access various educational materials lectures and useful information. Similarly business people can easily advertise their business services and services through social media. Spending too much time on social media can affect education and daily work so it should be used wisely and carefully. You should not believe every news but rather verify it You should not share your personal information with anyone else.

[Nasdel4]

Social media has it's own advantages and disadvantages on society. News don't take time to circulate anymore because of the help of social media but sometimes these informations that are being spread could be false. Social media has made us informed in so many areas of life ranging from economics, politics, education and entertainment generally. It's benefits can not be overlooked but inability to control what goes out usually is the downside and everyone has access.

[Zaka1221]

Social media allowed people to share their views and opinions in a more open way, so people got more exposed to each other. At same time, the modern world brought a sense of frustration and emptiness which got personified in human relationships. Such frustrations were manifestated on political ideologies, which is also a common topic on social medias which cause division.

So I guess social media is just the tool, but the cause of division is deeper than that mechanism.

Fact is that humans hate each other now and avoid having contact the maximum as possible, and that is mainly due to past negative experiences with other people. Anyway, social media can't be blamed for that.

Social divisions exist and the causes are way deeper than social media. But social media can not be completely removed from the equation. It is a tool that influences how people behave. Social media is not simply reflecting the existing frustration in our society; sometimes it can amplify negativity as well. Sometimes algorithms behave in such a way that it pushes emotional and controversial content because it attracts more audience, gives more views, attention and engagement. The people who already have a negative experience of something /situation can easily find thousands of similar opinions on social media that can strengthen their existing negative remarks and they don't want to challenge them. I think just saying that people hate each other is not okay because of the past negative experiences. In today's time, people still cooperate, they also build good relationships, friendships, and help each other and strangers every other day.