SOCIAL MEDIA

          Social media is an application that can help people to interact with the other people in everywhere and every time. As we know that technology information develops now a day so we can access social media by phone, laptop, computer, tablet and etc.

          There is a lot of kind of social media such as Twitter, path, tumbler, Instagram, Facebook, and etc. Facebook and twitter are the most used in Indonesia. However Indonesian prefers to use Facebook rather than using twitter. It may be because Facebook created earlier than Twitter, Facebook easier to access and may be because Facebook gives us much benefit so we can share photos, videos, create profile, chatting online, playing games online and etc.

          I think everything in this world has positive and negative impacts as well as social media. There is a lot of positive impact by using social media. Such as human gets easier to get information, job, make an online shop. And by using Facebook we can make a friend, share photos, videos, play games online, share file, make a group chatting, make fan page and etc.

          The social media also have some negative impacts. The negative effects of social media for teenagers such as cyberbullying, online harassment, depression, lower school grades, sexting and etc. The other impacts of social media are human being tends to be more individualistic, arrogant, imperious, porn, frauds, trafficking and terrorism rise too high lately. Social media also can eliminate the culture values and make Indonesian lose their identity and the other impacts of social media.

          That’s right if the social media can help people to connect and interact with everyone, in every time and everywhere. But needs to be aware that social media gives much of negative impacts for ourselves and people around us. Of course we should avoid for these impacts. There are some ways to avoid the negative impacts of social media such as we should set the time to use social media, don’t waste many times in social media. Next way is being a selective person and always be aware of the social media sites, use the social media to get information and everything that useful.