The Downsides of Social Media

Social media is defined as computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. In other words it is a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. However, simultaneous to the advancement of technology is also the propagation of corrupt human minds. With that, social media becomes an avenue for:

Cyber bullying

Cyber bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person. By definition, it occurs among young people. And as a result, many teenage-committed suicides become prevalent.

Pornography

Pornography (often abbreviated as "porn" or "porno" in informal usage) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purpose of sexual arousal. Pornography may be presented in a variety of media, including books, magazines, postcards, photographs, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, and video games. On the other hand, pornography is also presented through social media; corrupting the minds of teenagers by exposing them with the said lascivious pornographic acts.

Unproductivity

It is the quality, state, or fact of not being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services. This is one of the effects of social media to people who utilize it, especially with the teenagers. Through the use of social media, users tend to do unproductive things in order to kill time (e.g. playing games and watching videos).