Social Media and Living

Social Media is websites or apps that connecting people in different places or counties. We can use it to comprehend a person more through visiting his or her profile and status. Also, we can text or phone others via social media like Whatsapp or Facebook messenger. Likewise, social media provides information such as news or reviews.

‘Making new friends through social media’, ‘Posting photos on Facebook’… These phrases are no stranger to us. Without a shadow of doubt, social media is a indispensable part of our life in this day and age. Therefore, have you ever thought about the effect of social media? Will it make a better place for us to live? In my point of view, to a large extent I agree that social media have made the world a better place to live. A better place to live means it improves the interpersonal relationship and daily life of people. And which I reckon that social media can make such improvement to us.

Social networking ameliorates our interpersonal relationship. Making friends from distinct countries is possible in the online world. Amanda Lenhart suggested that 57% teens have met friends from online. It reveals that social media can effectively widen people’s social circle. People can also communicate with others, texting, phoning and even FaceTime are available. Way of communication is not only face to face but also ‘online to online’ via social media. It gives a convenient path for communication. It also provides an opportunity for us to keep contact with old friends including primary and secondary schoolmates or even the kindergarten one. As it is so easy to find out an old friend in social networking like Facebook and instagram.

Quality of daily life can also be enhanced. Work and leisure are the two most essential elements in daily routine. For work, social media has not only provided information but also given a platform for them to hold meetings for project discussion or ask for others’ opinions. Social media is a new way to advertising too. It helps to promote various brandname. A finding shows that 91% marketers are using Facebook for advertisement. Social media improves the working efficiency and methods. On the other hand, leisure can be improved. Recently, a trend on social networking, called ‘Foodie’, has been sought-after. Users will post the information and reviews of the restaurant on his or her account. Many teenagers will follow what they recommended or ate. It gives ideas for people to do in the leisure time.

It was alleged that criminals were happened on social networking. Undoubtedly, criminals arise in everywhere. Even countries that have well public security have cases of crime so we can’t counter on social media only. Moreover, the government had already taken action on controlling online activities. There are professionals from the police to surf different social media time to time in order