Social Media Communication

Average student spend three hours on Facebook alone… I am guilty of sometimes spending more than three hours on Facebook. Other social media users don’t just read, they participate and write something weather it is about personal experience or events. Social media let us collaborate with people around the world and let us set aside or learn cultural differences, take Youtube for example, this social media makes it possible for us to share ideas and thoughts, this is truly a powerful medium of communication, it creates new forms of expression, new forms of identity and new forms of creativity.

There are countless advantages and uses of social media in communication and there is no doubt that it revolutionizes the way we communicate and interact with people and our audience. But however on the other hand there are a lot of disadvantages and danger in this new medium, one of the The major problem with social media is that users tend to communicate informally, this can impair their writing skills and it makes face-to-face communication and interaction not important. Most of the articles that are posted online are due to impulse and emotions thus; users got carried away with their emotions and posted some inappropriate articles without proofreading them. Another one is plagiarism that I discuss on my other blog post, the material or ideas that are posted online might not be authentic.