The Effect of Social Media on Human Behavior

How Has Social Media Affected Human Behavior and Thinking? In this modern age in which you can be completely disconnected from the world by not having access to the endless information provided by the Internet, it is imperative to have Internet access to be able to be as efficient as possible and be able to create your own network. This is made possible in part to the availability of social media. One can interact with others around the world to either create new friendships on a recreational level, or develop job-related relationships at a professional level. All too often, we hear questions relating as to how social media plays a role in our manner of thinking and interaction. This has been a concern with the general population currently using social media, but most particularly with the younger generations. The role social media plays in how the younger age groups of today think and interact with other people and how much their academic performance can change has proven to be pretty significant over the years. Therefore, it is important to look more in depth into this matter of the pros and cons of social media: how it has been able to benefit some by networking with other people and the negative effects it can have on the adolescents of today in terms of their behavior and mentality. In recent years, new websites such as Facebook and Twitter were created and served as a means of communicating and networking with other people. The network one could create could expand all throughout the world if they wanted to, thus providing an effective and efficient means of communicating with other people without the dilemma of needing to physically be with someone or make a costly international call to simply talk to someone. Such web pages with the capacity to connect people have come to be known as social media. Their primary purpose was to allow people to interact with one another in an efficient and easy manner. The website had a concentrated population using

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