Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media

      Last March 4, 2013 the Colegio De Los Baños conducted a seminar entitled"Advantages and Disadvantages of Social media." The information below this paragraph  are the content of the seminar.

    What is Social Media?

     The first thing that comes to our mind when we hear the word social media is internet (international networking). Social media is anything we can used in socialization, interaction or communication, education and even in business transaction by means of technology and mass media. The social media which is being used  here in the Philippines are facebook, youtube, twitter, tumbler, linkedin, instgram, and flipboard.

        Today almost all of us rely on the use of internet, people of all ages even young kids have an access in using internet services. Internet makes our lives easier and better.


The following are the purposes of social media:

1. Publishing
2. Recommending 
3. Sharing
4. Collaborating

Advantage of Social Media

         Social media has done a lot of changes  on the lifestyle of mankind. It has different  features which  can provide benefits to us in order to live with convenience. According to the speaker the advantages of social media are:

1. Facilities open communication, leading to enhance information discovery and delivery
2. Improves business reputation
3. Expand market research/campaign

Disadvantages of Social Media

            It is clear that social media bring up convenience in our daily lives. The task and other chores  are accomplished easily,we can also find solution to our problem in just a short period of time. All we have to do is to click the mouse of our computer.But all of this had a drawback. According to the speaker the disadvantages of social media are:

1. Provide more distraction for the teachers and learners due to many different content of source
2. Opens up possibility for hackers to commit fraud and launch spam and virus attack
3. Increase the risk of people falling prey to online scam that seems genuine, resulting into data or identity theft

             Social media has a huge contribution in our lives. Maybe most of us can't live without it because we consider it as part of our lives. But always remember, everything in this world has a limit, just know the limitations in using social media. Don't just look on the advantages and benefits that we can get on it, also look and consider the disadvantages in using social media so that we can prevent conflicts. 

Just like what the speaker said. "Think first before you post."