The negative impacts of social media

Over the period, the human race has adopted social media on the socialization techniques, commerce, and distribution and access to information. The adoption and increased use of social media has revolutionized the way people interact and do business. Basically, social media is turning around lives with new forms of commerce and interaction. However, the use of social media has changed over time. Social media has caused an evolution in the socialization process. LinkedIn developers are yet to feel the pride in numbers as the business page is competing for attention. Social media despite bringing about many admirable impacts to the society is to blame for the propagation of social vices among other detrimental effects. Social media is responsible for the misconceptions about self and others.

Interaction across social media platforms depends on human gadget interaction migrating from the ancient person to person engagement. As such, perceptions about ourselves and others is based on imagination and deducing inferences. (Quan-Haase, 2010) Businesses are reaping big from the development of technology and social media. Social media is providing an important link between producers and consumers through various market platforms. Commerce has successfully incorporated technology to facilitate an end to end configuration making it easy to transact and pay for goods and services over the internet. Despite being meaningful in the world of commerce, so much valuable time for productivity is lost while people engage their gadgets to catch up with current trends. Social media has become a companion for some even leading to addiction.

On the other side, outlawed groups and gangs and recruiting new members over social media. some social media users have become victims of violence, fraud, sexual abuse, as well as threats. Evidently social media has had a big impact on the modern society. While it brings along massive gains and profits with adoption, there are the ugly sides and turn of events following adoption of social media. social media has been a major contributor to the family breakups and marriage dissolution. Other conditions identified to associate with prolonged social media use include depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder. such conditions are triggered by too much concern and worry about perception by others and their reaction towards our posts. Social media is known to cause depression among youths as they develop a comparison attitude.