University Of Education
Faisalabad Campus
Department Of Economics and Business Administration
Mini Project_
Personality Development Workshop
Topic:
Effects Of Social Networking
Submitted To:
Dr. Muhammad Usman
Submitted By:
Muhammad Zubair
Roll NO:
Bsf1702543
BBA(Hons)-Evening
2017-21
Social Networking
The use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar
interests to one's own.
A social network is a website that allows people with similar interests to come together and share
information, photos and videos. ... The most popular social networks for this type of familiar interaction
include Face book, Google+ and Twitter.
Social networking revolves allows like-minded individuals to be in touch with each other using websites and
web-based applications.
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn are examples of social networking sites. ... Moreover, these sites
have grown to accommodate a multitude of users.
Examples Of Social Network
1 – Facebook. This is easily the largest social networking site in the world and one of the most widely
used. ...
2 – WhatsApp. ...
4 – WeChat. ...
5 – QZone. ...
6 – Tumblr. ...
7 – Instagram. ...
8 – Twitter. ...
9 – Google
Complete History of Social Media: Then And Now
The roots of social media stretch far deeper than you might imagine. Although it seems like a new trend,
sites like Facebook are the natural outcome of many centuries of social media development.
Social Media Before 1900
The earliest methods of communicating across great distances used written correspondence delivered by
hand from one person to another. In other words, letters. The earliest form of postal service dates back to
550 B.C., and this primitive delivery system would become more widespread and streamlined in future
centuries.
In 1792, the telegraph was invented. This allowed messages to be delivered over a long distance far faster
than a horse and rider could carry them. Although telegraph messages were short, they were a revolutionary
way to convey news and information.
Although no longer popular outside of drive-through banking, the pneumatic post, developed in 1865,
created another way for letters to be delivered quickly between recipients. A pneumatic post utilizes
underground pressurized air tubes to carry capsules from one area to another.
Two important discoveries happened in the last decade of the 1800s: The telephone in 1890 and the
radio in 1891.
Both technologies are still in use today, although the modern versions are much more sophisticated than
their predecessors. Telephone lines and radio signals enabled people to communicate across great distances
instantaneously, something that mankind had never experienced before.
Social Media in the 20th Century
Technology began to change very rapidly in the 20th Century. After the first super computers were created
in the 1940s, scientists and engineers began to develop ways to create networks between those computers,
and this would later lead to the birth of the Internet The earliest forms of the Internet, such as CompuServe,
were developed in the 1960s. Primitive forms of email were also developed during this time. By the 70s,
networking technology had improved, and 1979’s UseNet allowed users to communicate through a virtual
newsletter.
By the 1980s, home computers were becoming more common and social media was becoming more
sophisticated. Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the
1990’s.
The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a
profile and make friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social
media sensation that’s still popular today
Social Media Today
After the invention of blogging, social media began to explode in popularity. Sites like MySpace and
LinkedIn gained prominence in the early 2000s, and sites like Photobucket and Flickr facilitated online
photo sharing. YouTube came out in 2005, creating an entirely new way for people to communicate and
share with each other across great distances.
By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to users throughout the world. These sites remain
some of the most popular social networks on the Internet. Other sites like Tumblr, Spotify, Foursquare and
Pinterest began popping up to fill specific social networking niches.
Today, there is a tremendous variety of social networking sites, and many of them can be linked to allow
cross-posting. This creates an environment where users can reach the maximum number of people without
sacrificing the intimacy of person-to-person communication. We can only speculate about what the future of
social networking may look in the next decade or even 100 years from now, but it seems clear that it will
exist in some form for as long as humans are alive.
A Study on Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media
Social media is a platform for public around the World to discuss their issues and opinions. Before knowing
the actual aspects of social media people must have to know what does social media mean? Social media is a
term used to describe the interaction between groups or individuals in which they produce, share, and
sometimes exchange ideas, images, videos and many more over the internet and in virtual communities.
Children are growing up surrounded by mobile devices and interactive social networking sites such as
Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, Orkut which has made the social media a vital aspect of their life. Social
network is transforming the behavior in which youthful people relate with their parents, peers, as well as
how they make use of technology. The effects of social networking are twofold.On the positive side, social
networks can act as invaluable tools for professionals. They achieve this by assisting young professionals to
market their skills and seek business opportunities. Social networking sites may also be used to network
efficiently. On the negative side, the internet is laden with a number of risks associated with online
communities. Cyber bullying, which means a type of harassment that is perpetrated using electronic
technology, is one of the risks. In this paper we cover every aspect of social media with its positive and
negative effects. Focus is on the particular field like health, business, education, society and youth. During
this paper we explain how these media will influence the society in a broad way.
Health
A. Positive Effects of Social Media on Health
Sharing of Doctors prescriptions to friends, relatives and colleagues.
Consulting Doctors online anywhere and anytime.
Sharing Suggestions among friends, relatives and Colleagues about various diseases and its
symptoms.
Access to information in developing regions.
Support and mutual accountability on online health Forms .
Support for health-related causes.
Helping health services to prioritize critical cases.
Increased accountability to consumers.
More data available to health researchers.
B. Negative Effects of Social Media on Health
Incorrect self-diagnosis
Potential breach of privacy
Business
A. Positive Effect of Social Media on Business
With the use of Social Media, It is better to understand the customer requirements.
Social Media helps in promoting the Business all over the World.
Social Media builds deals and client maintenance through standard connection and auspicious
client benefit.
Social Media provides rich customer experiences.
With Social media monitoring you can gain key information about your competitors.
With the help of social media, Sharing contents about the Business faster and easier.
Social networking sites helps to make new customers by providing various facilities.
It helps to increase market insight and expand out beyond your rivals with online networking.
It also helps to increase awareness among customers for better understanding of products.
B. Negative Effect of Social Media on Business
In business, Social Media isn't totally hazard free in light of the fact that a significant number of
the fans and supporters are allowed to post their feeling on a specific association; the negative
remark can lead the association to disappointment.
Negative customer reviews are harmful.
Highly time consuming.
The web is crowded with more and more content.
A mistake made on social media is hard to rectify.
Many of the substantial association have succumbed to the programmers.
The wrong online brand system can fate an organization, and put at a tremendous viral social
Draw back.
Getting included with Social Media is extremely time consuming. As an association you ought to
appoint a man to dependably support your pages and profile with noteworthy substance.
Most organizations experience issues measuring the consequences of web-based social
networking promoting.
Education
A. Positive Effect of Social Media on Education
One can adopt its benefits to gain positive results in education.
Socializing:
An important part of growing up, is to socialize and make friends. Why this is important? It is because, it
allows the children to exchange ideas and learn new things. This will invariably result in them becoming
more confident in life.
Sharing knowledge:
It provides an easy and an effective way in which students can share knowledge. Students can simply access
the information, study, transform (if needed) and share. Hence, the flow of knowledge becomes smooth.
Updating oneself:
hey will have the capacity to know new things as and when it happens. This causes them refresh their own
particular information base.
Learning from various sources:
The long range interpersonal communication advances are worked in such a way, to the point that
understudies will have the capacity to pick the gathering, movement or the individual they would need to
take after for every day refreshes. The ways of learning is plenty.
Being Prepared:
The social networking technologies are all about showcasing the trends that run around the world. Students
can setup a plan of what might be expected out of them in the future by observing the changes that are being
updated, shared, discussed or spoken about on the social networking sites.
Sharing what they feel or think:
Students frequently don't get the right stage to share their feelings. Through social networking technologies
they are given an option to sound their thoughts. If students were permitted to share what they think and
feel, it becomes simple for them to decide what is good and what is bad.
Social media gives a path to the understudies to adequately achieve each other with respect to class
wanders, group assignments or for help on homework assignments.
Many of the understudies who don't take an intrigue reliably in class may feel that they can express
their musings effectively via web-based networking media.
Teachers may post via web-based networking media about class exercises, school occasions, and
homework assignments which will be exceptionally valuable to them.
It is seen that web-based social networking advertising has been developing in profession
alternative. Web based social networking advertising plans youthful specialists to end up noticeably
fruitful advertisers.
B. Negative effect of Social Media on Education
Reduced learning and research capabilities
Students are depending more on the information reachable easily on these social networking sites and the
web. This reduces their learning and research capabilities.
Reduction in real human contact
The additional time the students spend on these online networking destinations, the less time they will go
through associating face to face with others. This decreases their relational abilities. They won't have the
capacity to convey and mingle adequately face to face with others. The businesses are getting
increasingly unsatisfied with the relational abilities of the new graduates because of this reason.The
compelling relational abilities are critical to achievement in reality.
Reduces command over language use age and creative writing skills
Students generally utilize slang words or abbreviated types of words on long range interpersonal
communication locales. They begin depending on the PC language structure and spelling check
highlights. This decreases their charge over the dialect and their experimental writing abilities.
Time wastage
Students, while seeking and concentrate on the web, get pulled in to utilizing online networking locales
and once in a while they overlook why they are using internet. Sometimes students are not able to deliver
their work in the specified time frame as their time wastes.
Low grades
Students get low evaluations in school because of absence of the coveted data and composing abilities.
Loss of motivation in students
The student’s motivational level lessens because of the utilization of these long range interpersonal
communication locales. They depend on the virtual condition as opposed to increasing reasonable
learning from this present reality.
Effect on health
The unnecessary use of these sites has an effect on the mental as well as physical health. Students do not
take their meals on time and take proper rest. The abuse of these destinations once a day has many
adverse impacts on the physical and psychological wellness of students making them lazy and
unmotivated to make contact with the general population face to face.
Society
A. Positive Effect of Social Media on Society
Connectivity
The first and foremost benefit of the social media is connectivity. People from anywhere can connect
with anyone. Regardless of the location and religion. The prettiness of social media is that you can attach
with anyone to learn and share your thoughts.
Education
Social networking provide various benefits to the students and teachers. It is very easy to educate from
others who are experts and professionals via the social media. One can follow anyone to learn from
him/her and enhance his knowledge about any field. Regardless of our location and education
background we can educate ourself, without paying for it.
Help
You can impart your issues to the group to get help and energy. Regardless of whether it is helping in
term of cash or in term of advices, you can get it from the group you are associated with.
Information and Updates
The primary favorable position of the web-based social networking is that you refresh yourself from the
most recent happenings around on the planet. More often than not, Television and print media
nowadays are one-sided and does not pass on the genuine message. With the assistance of web-based
social networking you can get the actualities and genuine data by doing some exploration.
Advertising
We can promote our business to the largest audience. The whole world is open for you, and can promote
to them. It will help in increase the profits and achieves the targets of Business.
Noble Cause
Social media can also be used for the noble causes.The public is making use of social media for
contribution for needy people and it can be a quick way to help such people.
Helps in Building Communities
Since our world has different religions and beliefs, so people of different communities can connect to
discuss and share related stuffs.
B. Negative Effect of Social Media on Society
Cyber Harassing
According to a report distributed by PewCenter.org the greater part of the youngsters have progressed
toward becoming casualties of the digital bulling over the past. Since anyone can make a phony record and
do anything without being tailed, it has ended up being exceptionally straightforward for anyone to spook on
the Internet. Dangers, terrorizing messages and bits of gossip can be sent to the majority to make
inconvenience and uproar in the general public.
Hacking
Personal information and security can be hacked and shared on the Internet. Some twitter and Facebook
accounts have been hacked in the past and the programmer had posted materials that have influenced the
person's lives.
Addiction
The addictive piece of the online networking is awful and can exasperate individual lives also. It can
likewise squander individual’s time that could have been used by profitable tasks and exercises.
Fraud and Scams
Several cases are available where people have committed fraud and scams through the online networking.
Reputation
Social media can without much of a stretch destroy somebody's notoriety just by making a false story and
spreading over the online networking.
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON KID AND TEENS
Media today has a huge influence on teenagers. Be it television, computers, video games, social networking
sites it hugely impacts all aspects of a teen’s life. Everything is not bad with the media. If used in right way,
media can transform lives of the youth from good to better. This post highlights both positive and negative
media influence on teens.
A. Positive Effect of Social Media on Kid and Teens Help Develop Awareness:
Most teens live a sheltered life. But with exposure to various media outlets, they can develop awareness
about society and the world. With news channels, magazines, social networking sites blaring about world
happenings, youth can understand that there is more to the world than just what is happening in the ‘hood.
Help Develop Social Skills:
Many teens are socially awkward. Social Media also gives them the probability to develop their social circle
and develop new friendships.Other benefits include social confidence, heightened literacy in the media, and
more social support. Social media diversifies teen’s social skills, which in turn helps them navigate
successfully through modern society.
Inspire Them:
When our teen watches an action flick, don’t just despair about the violence. With a minute control on teens,
they can use the movie as encouragement, motivation and inspiration! Maybe our teen will decide to take up
martial arts training, all thanks to a Bruce Lee movie! Mostly youngsters give the impression of being
celebrities, and when a celebrity tells them to stay off drugs, they just might listen.
Help Develop Reading And Writing Skills:
When a celebrity talks of her favorite book, a teenager might be tempted to grab a book too.
B. Positive Effect of Social Media on Kid and Teens
Distorted Body Image:
The world is full of perfect people today. With the use of Photoshop the images are everywhere and lead to
distorted body image among a number of teenagers. Anorexia and bulimia are a fall out of this body image
crisis.
Risky Sexual Behavior:
Young people are simply finding their sexuality. It is exceptionally typical for them to be occupied with
everything sexual. However, the measure of sex in media today can make an adolescent befuddled. Sex
without duty –that is by all accounts the message being radiated at adolescents. This can prompt
untrustworthy sexual conduct and undesirable pregnancies.
Score Low In School:
Teens who watch too much television have lower scores in exams. During a study it is mentioned that
persons with high degree scores watch less television in their childhood and teenage. Another study reveals
that different media affects school work differently.The media today is powerful and omnipresent. You just
can’t escape its tentacles. And you don’t need to! Retain this information in mind, media is presently a tool
and like any other tool, how you use it depends on you.
HANDLING INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUTH AND TEENS:
Here are some ways to handle the influence of social media on teenagers:
Check out the music, movies, TV shows, games and celebrities your child likes. Once we know
what is interesting to them, we can spot the pictures and messages that are influencing them.
It is quite easy for our teens to watch YouTube videos on mobiles so that we may not know what he
is watching. Parents must try monitoring the teenager on what he is watching on TV or the internet
and try to discuss some limits and rules.
One of the best ways to help the teens navigate the influences on media is to talk about messages.[4]
For instance, if the teen love girls, we can talk to them about female friendships, life choices, self-
esteem and sexuality.
Monitoring teen’s choices does not mean we ban them from watching media. It is just making them
aware of the negative influences.
We should also choose to ban some apps, shows and games. Explain why we are doing so.
We can also encourage our teen to interpret media by putting forward some questions they can ask.
Pick out a TV ad or a magazine and ask the teen: who’s behind it, what is their motivation, how does
it make them feel, what they needs from it, and so on.
We can do the same with our teen’s role model. Encourage our teen to ask him like why does they
like that celebrity, does they follow him in real life, what values of the celebrity interest our teens
and so on.
CONCLUSION
As the technology is developing, the web-based social networking has turned into the routine for every last
individual, people; groups are seen dependent with this technology consistently. Online networking has
expanded the quality and rate of coordinated effort for students. Business uses online networking to upgrade
an organizations execution in different courses, for example, to fulfill business goals, expanding yearly
offers of the organization. Youths are found in contact with these media every day .Social media has
different merits yet it likewise has a few faults which influence individuals contrarily. False data can lead the
training framework to disappointment, in organizations wrong promotion will influence the productivity,
online networking can manhandle the general public by attacking on individuals' security, some pointless
sites can impact youth that can end up plainly savage and can take a few wrong activities. Last but not least ,
all the citizens are advised to adopt the positive aspects of social media and avoid negative effects So that
we can avail the benefits of these latest and emerging technologies.
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