Social media is changing our lives day by day as it becoming more popular. Platforms of social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, and even Tiktok are giving people a chance of being connected regardless the distance so the world is becoming at our fingertip. It is a beneficial in many ways as it is nightmare in many ways too. For example, Facebook is considered the second most downloaded application having 2.74 billion users. As Instagram has around one billion users monthly and WhatsApp has around 2 billion users as more than 100 billion messages are sent daily. 


    Looking at the positive side of social media, we can see numbers of advantages. The first advantage is all information one need can find it by click on any social media. By using Google anything needed can be learned so it is beneficial for education. And you can attend any meeting or any lectures you like no matter where it’s happening. Another advantage is it keep you updated by everything happening in the world. People are staying aside from newspapers and are depending more on social media. If something happens it takes time to be written and posted in a newspaper as it is issued once a day. So, by the use of social media, you will be able to know directly everything happening. Moreover, distance isn’t a block anymore for anyone. If you need to travel for education or work reasons you won’t be lonely like long ago since you’ll be able to chat with your family and friends all the time and see them through video calls. Also, it’s a free platform to show your talent where you can get opportunities to be employed. And now days it’s being used for marketing, it is a great opportunity for your business, where more people are able to see your product or service and not in country you are living in but also worldwide. According to Pew Research Center, the percentage of people uses social media in United States are listed as the following YouTube 73%, Facebook 68%, Instagram 35%.  The ability to reach large audiences is really a big advantage. As you will get to know your target audience more you will be able to know what they like and what they don’t as it helps to provide better customer services. And not to forget you will be able to build your brand and what is important is that you can join social media for free. 



    On the other side, social media has a negative and dark side. To start it takes much of your time where you will be spending all your time on useful and useless things. Especially if you are trying to present work on platforms of social media you have to stay all the time checking if everything is going right and searching for what customers like and what they don’t. Another negative effect is that people will be sharing everything you are doing thus no more privacy. Especially teenagers will always be active to share the small and the big things. Some people use social media are rich so they will be going and going to  expensive places as other are poor and will feel sad when others are always having fun they can’t. Never forget that social media is a big lie and we should never trust everything we see. Moreover, it has negative effect on education where kids or anyone study will be staying on social media for playing and having fun and not studying and gaining information and experience or anything useful. 

       In conclusion, the best way is to control how much you use social media and for what you use it in order to get the positive effects. As  it is more recommended for parents to keep their eyes on their kids using social media.