Research on "Do social networking sites such as Face book and Twitter cause more harm than good?"

Social  networking  sites  act  as  a  social  medium  to connect  billions  of  social networking users with each other. A social networking site such as Face book, Twitter, MySpace and Bebo has dominated world in this modern era. These sites have flourished in the world of the internet and it offers a platform to keep in touch with friends. A social networking site has more negative impact than positive impact.  Therefore, social networking sites has negative effect such as  cyber bullying in our society, getting addicted to social network, affect on human health, wastage of individual time and not able to contact in reality in course of chatting.

Increase in social networking sites had lead to cyber bullying in our society. Due to increase in access of social networking sites such as Face book and Twitter, the risk of being victim of cyber bullying is increasing over the decades. For example, sharing of images of others is a common problem. According to the Bullying statistics report (2010), “93 % of teens use the social networking sites, of that 63% of teens are using it daily”. As reported in Kuensel (2013) image of two minor girls has been used as a fashion page on a Face book in order to fetch benefit without permission from rightful person. One of the prominent issues related to bullying has caused suicide among the youth. Such type of problem might arise in future if users do not remain conscious.

Immense use of Social networking had lead to addiction among huge users especially, youth. Youth normally get influenced by social networking sites because these sites provide opportunity for youth to share photos, comment, play game, chat and watch video clips. In turn, youths become addicted to social networking sites due to active use of Face book and Twitter. According to Mandal (2012) it has been seen that Face book and Twitter are more difficult to resist than cigarettes or alcohol. It shows how youth gets addicted to social networking sites.

Another important problem related to Social networking sites is that it cause harm on human biological system. Social networking causes problems such as depression, anxiety and stress of the users. According to Rosen, frequent young people used Facebook and Twitter as a chances to develop an antisocial personality disorder and to suffer from paranoia, anxiety and alcohol abuse (2011). Such type of problem may lead to tension among users. Other side effect of Social networking sites is that it harms human eye and brain due to excessive use of Facebook or Twitter. Not only that the social networking sites affect the children but also affect the adult both in physical and mental health. 

 Wastage of the time by social networker users is one of the negative effects of such networks. Youth waste their time by posting images, commenting and writing status and such type of problem is increasing day by day. According Performancing (2012) youths are forgetting what they should do, and waste their precious time, chatting and commenting in nonsense images.  For example, approximately 50% of Royal Thimphu College student waste their time on Facebook, game and video. This has resulted in low grade to student in college. More time is wasted in uploading picture and doing some kind of sites work.

Social networking sites help to contact through online but are not able to provide contact in reality in course of chatting. The Face book and Twitter account holder chat, share information and they never get an opportunity to meet in reality. Majority of people communicate though Face book and Twitter which isolate the people and this create more gaps between users. According to Performancing (2012) it shows that more time the students spend on these sites, the less time they will spend socializing with people around the world, without facing in reality.

In this tantalizing era, the world is marked by scientific development and made world different from past decades. In doing so the social networking sites posses both positive and negative effects. A social networking site has more harm than good. Including youth and adults are affected by social networking sites and it is becoming prominent, worldwide. The urgent solution to solve the problems can be traced by remaining more conscious to such sites. Firstly step can be followed by developing our own self esteem and control from addiction. Secondly, government has to frame rules and regulation to help to curb the problem related to social network. Thirdly, it is responsible for the parent to give advice to their child in order to prevent various problem related to social networking. In this rapidly developing world, people should be conscious enough about the negative impacts of Social networking sites. Therefore, all the users should be aware of such sites to prevent various effect of social networking to make life effective and efficient one.

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