Disadvantages of Social Media

Social media has lately been an integrated part of everyone’s life. According to a survey by a company, people were asked to live without there smartphones for 48 hours. 23% of the total people failed to do so. Out of the remaining 77% who survived, 46% logged in to one social network or the other when then were handed over their cell phone after 48 hours. Social networks have clutched the wrists of the common man so hard that they have inadvertently become addicted to it. People have been using social networks to pour out every emotion of theirs, which can be annoying sometimes as well. Whining over a break up, having a new sibling, child, getting a new gadget are some of the billion examples people use the social networks for. Also there can be some unexpected cases of abuse of social media where the giants like Facebook, LinkedIn, sell our private database to the telemarketing sites. Recently we came across the case where a girl was arrested to write an offensive status against Mr. Raj Thackery. Such instances were not in the scene a few years ago. All in all we can say that social networking has some pros and some cons but the cons are currently overshadowing the so called pros.