School of Education, Arts and Sciences

General Education Area

Name: Francess Thea T. Pascua Course and Year: BSN-1

Examine how the use of internet and social media influences various aspects of the life of an individual.
Complete the table by listing theiradvantages and disadvantages. Explain your answer to ensure
substantiality.Write in complete statements.

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Social media has given humans the ability to Social media could lead to a distance in relationships,
instantly connect with others and share their lives infidelity, or even social media addiction. It
RELATIONSHIPS

through photos, videos, and status updates. We decreases face to face communication with your
describe these platforms as a key tool for friends or loved ones that could lead to how long your
connecting and maintaining relationships, being time would be spent on your phones rather than your
creative, and learning more about the world. For partners or family. When social media and social
example, it increases your visibility because it is not lives intertwine, it creates jealousy and cheating in
just about pushing content, however, you also need relationships. Social media makes people manipulate
to engage with other people's content. It can also easier emotionally because they are reliant on the
be a great tool to network with people. LinkedIn, for concept of vanity. It conveys your inauthentic
example, is a site used to connect people in the expression of your feelings to other people that would
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information, to connect with learning groups and and the teachers will have no option of knowing
ACADEMICS

other educational systems that make education which student pays attention. This is one of the major
convenient. Social media is also useful for students reasons social media is not permitted in schools
when doing homework from the comfort of their own because there is always a possibility that the
homes and can enable students to easily contact students will not use social media for educational
each other with regard to school projects and purposes. A student can post inapt content that
assignments. would be distracting and harmful to students that can
be a weapon of malevolent behavior that lead to
It also helps students and institutions multiple cyberbullying.
People with low self-esteem use social media sites Social media has indeed been linked to higher levels
to express themselves in what seems like a safe of loneliness, envy, anxiety, depression, stress, and
environment. They have found that social media hindered social skills. It can make people feel
SELF-ESTEEM

may also help improve mental health by boosting depressed and isolated. The responses other people
self-esteem and providing a source of emotional provide through comments or “likes” may be a factor
support. They could get into a vicious cycle of that can lead to low self-esteem which they can feel
receiving some social support but also being you cut out of their social interactions and feel
exposed to constant upward social comparison, judged. In fact, people who visit social media sites to
which may impair their self-esteem further. feel connected to friends may end up caught in online
drama, or even cyber-bullying. Not to mention,
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SOCIAL ISSUES AND

creative outlet to market businesses, spread media include where individuals have scammed
important messages, stay up-to-date with news, or and committed fraud through social media. Social
simply express yourself on a public platform. The media can easily ruin someone’s reputation just by
TRENDS

main advantage of social media is that you update creating a false story and spreading it across
yourself on the latest happenings around the world. social media. Similarly, businesses can also suffer
Most of the time, Television and print media these losses due to bad reputation being conveyed over
days are biased and do not convey the true social media. Social media has become really
message. With the help of social media, you can
complex and social trends successfully attract you
get the facts and true information by doing some
that you will become addicted. The addictive part
research. Social media also create awareness and
of social media is very bad and can disturb

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