{"id":7109,"date":"2017-01-07T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T09:25:51","slug":"essay-made-easy-social-media-a-source-of-connecting-people-or-disconnecting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/css-exclusive\/css-special\/essay-made-easy-social-media-a-source-of-connecting-people-or-disconnecting-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay Made Easy: Social Media, A SOURCE OF CONNECTING PEOPLE OR DISCONNECTING THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Essay<\/a><\/h3>\n

Introduction<\/span><\/h3>\n

Different types of media<\/span><\/h4>\n
    \n
  • Print media<\/li>\n
  • Electronic media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Social media and its types<\/span><\/h4>\n
      \n
    • Blogs and micro-blogs (Twitter)<\/li>\n
    • Social networking sites (Facebook)<\/li>\n
    • Social commerce (Amazon, Alibaba)<\/li>\n
    • Social media news (Digg)<\/li>\n
    • VolP Software (Skype, MSN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Social Media as a source of connecting people<\/span><\/h4>\n
        \n
      • Connecting with unknown people belonging to other nations and states<\/li>\n
      • Connecting with the people one already knows, irrespective of their location(s)<\/li>\n
      • Possibility of staying connected with others round the clock<\/li>\n
      • Little cost of maintaining connection<\/li>\n
      • Fast and speedy connectivity<\/li>\n
      • Easy tracing of lost contacts<\/li>\n
      • Benefits of connectivity through social media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Social benefits<\/span><\/h4>\n
          \n
        • Shares information<\/li>\n
        • Upgrades living standards<\/li>\n
        • Serves as a source of education<\/li>\n
        • Eliminates social biases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          <\/p>\n

          Political benefits<\/span><\/h4>\n
            \n
          • Spreads political awareness<\/li>\n
          • Assists in political decision-making
            \no Arab Spring 2011
            \no General Elections 2013 in Pakistan<\/li>\n
          • Highlights public issues and grievances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Economic benefits<\/span><\/h4>\n
              \n
            • Gives information on economic opportunities<\/li>\n
            • Provides platform for economic activities<\/li>\n
            • Renders assistance in economic decision- making<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Religious benefits<\/span><\/h4>\n
                \n
              • Imparts religious education<\/li>\n
              • Eliminates religious biases<\/li>\n
              • Serves as a platform for religious preaching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Administrative benefits<\/span><\/h4>\n
                  \n
                • Serves as source of information-sharing<\/li>\n
                • Assists in quick decision-making<\/li>\n
                • Helps in ensuring better governance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  Social media as a source of disconnect of the people<\/span><\/h3>\n
                    \n
                  • Weakening of family bonds<\/li>\n
                  • Decrease in traditional get together<\/li>\n
                  • Decline in sports activities<\/li>\n
                  • Scarcity of time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    A glimpse over some other evils of social media<\/span><\/h4>\n
                      \n
                    • Spoil of moral values<\/li>\n
                    • Wastage of time<\/li>\n
                    • Acts of cheating and fraud<\/li>\n
                    • Deleterious impacts on health<\/li>\n
                    • Promotion of hatred and antagonism<\/li>\n
                    • Unreliability of information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      Causes of evils of social media<\/span><\/h4>\n
                        \n
                      • Absence of proper control mechanism<\/li>\n
                      • Poor performance of regulatory authorities<\/li>\n
                      • No focus on character-building in educational institutes<\/li>\n
                      • Absence of other recreational facilities<\/li>\n
                      • Easy availability of technology<\/li>\n
                      • Cheaper\u00a0 access to social media sites<\/li>\n
                      • Incognito access to social media sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                        Recommendations for eliminating the harmful impacts of social media<\/span><\/h4>\n
                          \n
                        • Application of some mandatory filters and controls
                          \no At national level
                          \no At local level<\/li>\n
                        • Launching of awareness campaigns<\/li>\n
                        • Enactment of stringent laws<\/li>\n
                        • Effective role of regulatory authorities<\/li>\n
                        • Effective role of education sector in character-building<\/li>\n
                        • Provision of better sports and recreational facilities<\/li>\n
                        • Enhancement of service cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                          Introduction Different types of media Print media Electronic media Social media and its types Blogs and micro-blogs (Twitter) Social networking sites (Facebook) Social commerce (Amazon, Alibaba) Social media news (Digg) VolP Software (Skype, MSN) Social Media as a source of connecting people Connecting with unknown people belonging to other nations and states Connecting with the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":7110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,6330],"tags":[6535,6534,5962,5193,6541,6537,6538,6536,6540,6539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}