social media benifits
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Social media has both positive and negative sides. It can connect people, facilitate information sharing, and provide access to educational resources. However, it can also lead to addiction, mental health issues, spread of misinformation, and privacy concerns.
Here's a more
detailed breakdown:
Positive Aspects:
·
Connectivity:
Social media
platforms allow people to connect with friends, family, and communities across
geographical boundaries.
·
Information
and Education:
Social media
provides quick access to news, information, and educational resources.
·
Community
Building:
It fosters
online communities based on shared interests, hobbies, and experiences.
·
Marketing
and Business:
Social media
is a powerful tool for businesses to reach target audiences and promote their
products or services.
·
Access
to Support:
It can
provide access to support groups and communities for individuals facing various
challenges.
Positive Aspects:
·
Connectivity:
Social media
platforms allow people to connect with friends, family, and communities across
geographical boundaries.
·
Information
and Education:
Social media
provides quick access to news, information, and educational resources.
·
Community
Building:
It fosters
online communities based on shared interests, hobbies, and experiences.
·
Marketing
and Business:
Social media
is a powerful tool for businesses to reach target audiences and promote their
products or services.
·
Access
to Support:
It can
provide access to support groups and communities for individuals facing various
challenges.
The
internet and social media provide young people with a range of benefits, and
opportunities to empower themselves in a variety of ways. Young people can
maintain social connections and support networks that otherwise wouldn't be
possible, and can access more information than ever before. The communities and
social interactions young people form online can be invaluable for bolstering
and developing young people's self-confidence and social skills.
This will help you to:
·
understand some of the benefits of internet and
social media
·
understand why technology is so attractive to young
people
·
understand the positive uses of social media and
online spaces
·
talk to young people about what they use technology
for.
The use of social
media and networking services such as Facebook, Tik Tok, Twitter, Instagram and
Snapchat have become an integral part of Australians’ daily lives.
While
many associate social media with a degradation of young people’s social networks
and communication skills, a literature review published by the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre
found that social networking services actually play a vital role for in young
people’s lives, helping to deliver:
·
educational outcomes
·
facilitating supportive relationships
·
identity formation
·
promoting a sense of belonging and self-esteem.
In collaboration
with young people, we’ve documented some of the positive benefits of internet
and social media for young people.
Young people as social
participants and active citizens
Social networking
services can provide an accessible and powerful toolkit for highlighting and
acting on issues and causes that affect and interest young people.
Social networking
services can be used for organizing activities, events, or groups to showcase
issues and opinions and make a wider audience aware of them. For example,
coordinating band activities, fundraisers, and creating awareness of various causes.
Young people developing a
voice and building trust
Social networking
services can be used to hone debating and discussion skills in a local,
national or international context. This helps users develop public ways of
presenting themselves.
Personal skills are
very important in this context: to make, develop and keep friendships, and to
be regarded as a trusted connection within a network. Social networking
services can provide young people with opportunities to learn how to function
successfully in a community, navigating a public social space and developing
social norms and skills as participants in peer groups.
Young people as content creators,
managers and distributors
Social networking
services rely on active participation: users take part in activities and
discussions on a site, and upload, modify or create content. This supports
creativity and can support discussion about ownership of content and data
management.
Young people who use
social networking services to showcase content – music, film, photography or
writing – need to know what permissions they are giving the host service, so
that they can make informed decisions about how and what they place on the
site.
Users might also
want to explore additional licensing options that may be available to them
within services – for example Creative Commons licensing – to allow them to
share their work with other people in a range of ways.
Young people as collaborators and
team players
Social networking
services are designed to support users working, thinking and acting together.
They also require listening and compromising skills. Young people may need to
ask others for help and advice in using services, or understand how platforms
work by observing others, particularly in complex gaming or virtual environments.
Once users have developed confidence in a new environment, they will also have
gained the experience to help others.
Young
people as explorers and learners
Social networks
encourage discovery. If someone is interested in certain books, bands, recipes
or ideas, it's likely that their interest will be catered for by a social
networking service or group within a service. If users are looking for
something more specific or unusual then they could create their own groups or
social networking sites.
Social networking
services can help young people develop their interests and find other people
who share the same interests. They can help introduce young people to new
things and ideas, and deepen appreciation of existing interests. They can also
help broaden users' horizons by helping them discover how other people live and
think in all parts of the world.
Young
people becoming independent and building resilience
Online spaces are
social spaces, and social networking services offer similar opportunities to
those of offline social spaces: places for young people to be with friends or
to explore alone, building independence and developing the skills they need to recognize
and manage risk, to learn to judge and evaluate situations, and to deal
effectively with a world that can sometimes be dangerous or hostile.
However, such skills
can't be built in isolation, and are more likely to develop if supported. Going
to a social networking service for the first time as a young person alone can
be compared to a young person's first solo trip to a city center, and thus it
is important for a young person to know how to stay safe in this new
environment.
Young people
developing key and real world skills
Managing an online
presence and being able to interact effectively online is becoming an
increasingly important skill in the workplace. Being able to quickly adapt to
new technologies, services and environments is already regarded as a highly
valuable skill by employers, and can facilitate both formal and informal learning.
Most services are text based, which encourages literacy skills, including
interpretation, evaluation and contextualization.
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