Internet and Social Media Apps: New Horizons To Explore The World
By: Sonia Saba
Tags: Internet, Communication Apps, Social Media, New Techonology, Social Change

Nowadays everyone in this world is well acquainted with terms-Internet and Social Media. The world today has been changed into a global village only due to the internet. It has revolutionized communications-because it is our most preferred medium of communication. It is an age of social change; that means people’s ways of living are going through a swift change by social means i.e Social Media platforms. Internet and Social Media is emerging as a new technology for many people who were literally unaware of the usefulness and applications of this technology in the past. Now they came to know the real importance and utilisations of these sources to benefits their personal affairs. So, old technology has become a new one for many new users!

Rapidly Increasing Medium of Human Communication-Communication Apps

These days the world’s culture is changing due to the rapidly spreading internet and developed technologies. Social media is playing a significant role in changing the cultures and traditions of nations. Social Media is a tool that is becoming more and more popular over time because of its user’s friendly features. Social Media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, and many others giving a chance to people to connect with their loved ones across distances. These apps are also known as Communication Apps; for they are playing a major role by creating a sort of link or communication among peoples living in distant places of the world. We can say that the world is at our fingertips!

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Internet and Social Media has Changed Everyday Life: How?

The use of the internet has turned our existence to a great extent. It has revolutionized communication in the sense that it is a preferred medium of daily communication for everyone. Nowadays, we use the internet for almost everything we do. Whether for Buying a television, sharing a moment with our friends, ordering a Pizza on anything else, we use the internet. The internet is no longer restricted to information exchange alone, it has become a source of online earning for many peoples and a powerful tool through which we can send data to any part of the world in a matter of seconds, make online presentations, use pictures, video, sound, and text to share our real lives. Local issues of people become global and personal stories go public.

Let us have a quick view of the key advantages of prevailing Social Media platforms:

Increase in Knowledge and Awareness

With the help of some growing social media platforms, the levels of knowledge and awareness of the people have remarkably increased. Every person who can use the internet and social media platforms can easily know and understand various issues of any part of the world just at a click. It has become simplified for everyone to build consensus on important issues that our world is facing these days like climate change, global warming, drug addiction, poverty, and many others. It is due to the help of speedy communication that mankind has begun to comprehend and act against the true challenges of life.

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Speedy and Minute Interaction

The fast mode of communication of the world has made feasible the quick and minute interactions among peoples. We can easily communicate and interact with each other quickly for our common purposes and benefits by using some social media apps and the internet.

Increasing Growth of E-Commerce

The economy of the world has touched new dimensions and heights with the advent of Social Media. E-Commerce is especially on the top. It has become easier for people to buy and sell online without involving any physical efforts. It has proved great advantages for the economy of a country.

The leading forum for Political awareness and Collective Voice Against Injustice

Social Media has become an effective tool to raise political awareness among people. People can know and contact easily with their elected representatives. It can help to select the right person to vote for. In previous times, any powerful person can easily suppress the rights of people by suppressing their voices. But these days, with the help of internet and social media apps, people can raise voice against injustice and can stand against any sort of tyranny and injustice. They get united with the online platforms and they can demand collective justice.

Nothing in this world is without any drawback and defect, no one can deny the usefulness and importance of internet and social media apps, but there are few drawbacks as well. Let us now discuss them:

Privacy Issues

The main disadvantage of social media is the lack of privacy and insecurity. We share many things on our social media accounts without taking into notice our privacy, data, and other things related to us. This could be seriously dangerous for us. Our privacy could be manipulated for negative uses.

Internet Addiction And Family issues

Due to the excessive use of the internet, a lot of problems have been created, especially for younger peoples. Youth isolation, lack of interest in real life, individualism, are one of the more disturbing results of social media. Many families are disturbed due to these issues. The family system has been exploited and disturbed by the growing internet culture nowadays.

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Increased chances of Cyber Crimes

Today, online digital crimes have become a new challenge for the world. Fraud, deception, hacking, wrong use of personal and private data are happening rapidly in the online world. The oversharing of information happening on social media can make children an easy target for hackers and predators.

Propaganda and Black Mailing

No doubt, Social Media is a powerful tool to change the ways of thinking, mindset, and approach of people. In this way, it has become an effective tool of propaganda by various groups. People are often misled and are easily made to believe in unreal things for the benefit of others.

In short, both internet and social media apps have opened new horizons for mankind to explore and learn new things. There is no doubt that the internet and social media have both advantages and disadvantages as well. But in the end, it is up to the users how to utilize these platforms for the right purposes. Excessive use of anything can create harm, it is up to the youth to create a balance between their physical activities, academic performances, and social media. We must always struggle to spend a satisfying life with the proper balance.