POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
von Farah M.Paisal
1. THE POSITIVE IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
1.1. Bring users a closer relationship and a broader social range
1.2. Promote social capital and reduce the degree of social isolation
1.3. Contribute to maintain the existing relationships with relatives and friends also can broaden people's social network
1.4. Serve as an appropriate platform for interaction
1.5. Breaks the constraint of space and time allowing individuals interact anywhere and anytime
1.6. Users can conveniently participate in a variety of social activities such as text messaging, vision sharing, content generation and so forth
2. THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
2.1. User will receive more social requests which may lead to the emergence of social overload
2.2. Individuals tend to present their living conditions in the online community which call for other users praise or assistance
2.3. Individuals experiencing the stress, exhaustion, leading to a series of adverse effects on living, working, depression, social anxiety, jealousy and so on
2.4. Decreased task performance, communication overload, decreased self-esteem, psychological distress, likely to compare their lives with others and perceive a low life satisfaction
2.5. Induces take time, strain and behaviours-based work or life conflict as it complicates rather than aids role transitions
3. DISCUSSIONS
3.1. Form of relationship will present a whole new phase challenge
3.2. Social media use can pressure that produce negative spillover effects leading to increased emotional exhaustion
3.3. Improving social media policies to better address the challenges employees
3.4. To prevent user's discontinuance, service providers should take measures to reduce the condition of social overload
4. CONCLUSIONS
4.1. Organizations should develop social media policies to effectively deal with the potential risks from employee’s social media use
4.2. Our life became more comfortable because social media is a very useful platform for us nowadays
5. INTRODUCTION
5.1. Social media refers to websites and applications that are designed to allow people to share content quickly, efficiently and in real-time
5.2. The presence of social media has deeply changed peoples life style thus may change their attitude and judgment about life
6. CATEGORIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
6.1. Social networking (SNS)
6.1.1. Badoo, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Orkut
6.2. Micro-blogging
6.2.1. Twitter and Branch
6.3. Video and photo sharing websites
6.3.1. Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube
6.4. Blogs hosted by media outlets
6.4.1. Blogger, Tumblr and Wordpress
6.5. Blogs (including personal corporate blogs and podcast)
6.5.1. Comment Is Free (The Guardian newspaper)
6.6. Wikis and online collaborative spaces
6.6.1. Wikipedia
6.7. Forums, discussion boards and groups
6.7.1. Google Groups and Yahoo Groups
6.8. Online multiplayer gaming platforms
6.8.1. Second Life and World of Warcraft
6.9. Instant messaging
6.9.1. SMS (text messaging)
6.10. Geo-spatial tagging
6.10.1. Facebook and Foursquare