Social Networking (Part-V)- Cons Of Social Media Badly Affecting Human Lifestyle

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Know About The Cons Of Social Networking Sites Affecting Our Normal LifeStyle

Here we continue with the last part of our blog on social networking. Those who have missed our fourth blog can read it from Here. It will help to connect with the last part of the blog discussing about the cons of social networking sites which in turn is affecting the normal lifestyle of mankind. Let us explore the blog to find out in more details. 

Technological advancements have gifted mankind with numerous products for the betterment of their lifestyle but everything has its own pros and cons. The same theory is also applicable to social networking sites or social media but it is entirely in our hand whether we adopt its positive or negative side. We often become victims of the negative sides unconsciously which lead to disastrous consequences in our normal and happy life. In our previous blog we emphasized on the positive sides of social networks which have opened a new doorway for advertisement or promotion of any profession and business, now popularly known as Social Promotion. Social promotion has emerged to be one of the leading marketing strategy which can provide huge boost to any profession or business as it helps to reach the most preferred and targeted audience for your business or profession very easily with few clicks. But on the other hand the negative sides of social media is badly affecting the normal lifestyle of mankind. The curse of technology is that now even a kid is handling mobile, computers and tabs with internet facilities and they are diving deep into the world of social media without even consent of their parents. Not only to blame the kids, but teenager, young and adult of every age have more or less become addicted to social media and it is an undeniable fact that social networking is badly addictive. Once people fall for this addiction, they are wasting maximum time of their day spending in different social media sites thus hampering their daily life and normal lifestyle. Making friendship with  completely unknown people and talking with them gives an exciting feeling as well as fun but sometimes these so-called social friendships are proving fatal for many people. People of all age are becoming victims with the kids and teenagers worse affected. An open social networking platform invites many rogue, fake and ill-minded people with dirty intentions and it is really impossible to judge someone just by talking and seeing some pictures of that person over social media. They will present themselves in the best way to avoid any doubt in our mind about them and with time compelling us to meet face to face. Many people fall in love over social media just by talking and seeing pictures and mostly end up with disastrous consequences like cheat, fraud, launder, harassment and abuse. Social networks is increasing depression, anxiety and loneliness among people as they are more inclined to their social friends rather than their real-life friends. People are becoming mechanized and unsocial and they prefer to stick to social networking friends sitting at home rather than going out and spending some time with real-life friends. This in turn is increasing the distance among close people, friends and families. The work output of people of all age is greatly deteriorating as people are spending more time in social media even while they are in their workplaces. Social media is gradually increasing the distance among real friends, colleagues and families in exchange of the peoples whom you have never met and are trying to represent their best personality and image in social sites to deceive others. Family and relationship problems are in great rise for the people who spend their maximum time over social media. Kinds and teenagers are getting wrong ideology from social media as they have become more a platform of hatred, abuse, discrimination and many other anti-social things rather than for which it was created. Some ill minded people are making money from social media in different ways like by downloading pictures from different social media profiles and selling them to pornographic sites without even the knowledge of the individual whose images have been misused or by deceiving individual with false promises and looting them. Some people are using social media to spread hatred, abuse, riots and violence by misguiding other people, hiding in their own home and sometimes faking their identity or putting the blame on others. Thus the current scenario is that social media are causing great turbulence in our normal and happy lifestyle by filling them more with negativity rather than a single bit of positive attitude. The cyber-security cells of all country have become greatly active to prevent such negativity and any misuse of social networking sites.

These things do not indicate that we should completely stop using social media. In many cases social media is helping to reunite with long lost friends, families and relationships which have discontinued because of increasing distances. Everything will have its negative side but it solely depends on us whether we want to accept its positive or negative side. Social media is a great source of refreshment and fun now-a-days but it should be used wisely and cautiously. Kids and teenagers should strictly be not allowed to get in touch with social media before they turned 18 years of age. For adults using social media. they are quite mature and sensible enough not to get addicted to such things. Our mature thinking, analysis, cautious and responsible use can make social media a fun, interesting and better place than it is now. We cannot control the negativity but we must be aware enough to keep a huge distance from those negativity and be a responsible social media user for normal and happy lifestyle.