How Social Media, web sharing, and/or similar trends in the internet will affect social and personal behaviors

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This Research Paper discusses the positive as well as negative impacts of social media on social and personal behavior of individuals. Social networking websites have their pros and cons associated with them. On one hand, social media helps one to improve his social and cognitive skills. On the other, it can cause anxiety and frustration to people who get addicted to it and use it either excessively or for wrong intentions.

How Social Media, web sharing, and/or similar trends in the internet will affect social and personal behaviors

Introduction

Social Media is considered as a tool to assist social interaction between people in their busy life schedules. It allows one to find and connect with anyone on the internet. There are many platforms of social media that are used worldwide. Social Media Web sites provide various opportunities for connection with one's friends, classmates, and people having common interests. Social media comes with its pros and cons. It has different types of impact on a person's behavior. A large portion of the people's emotional and social development is taking place while on the internet. Social media has positive as well as negative effects on the social and personal behaviors of people.

Positive Impacts of Social Media

Sociable

Social media does not only enable communication between friends, but also enables a person to meet new individuals. Common friends and similarities can help in creation of new bonds between people. In turn, this enables the expansion of a person's social circle (Fischer & Reuber, 2011). People can stay in touch with more people by having an expansion in their social circles on the platform of social media. Social networking websites have become a modernized way of making new friends. Social media helps the otherwise socially awkward people to learn to communicate with other people. It can help the introverts to become expressive and communicative. It makes people come out of their shells and have their social skills developed. The people who are shy enough to face others in face-to-face contacts learn communication skills through social networking websites (Trio Projects, n.d.). Social mobility has become easier for the users of social networking websites. Through social mobility, a person is able to change his social group in order to move horizontally or vertically up in the social hierarchy.

Expressive

On social media sites, our religious views, political perspectives, likes, and dislikes are always on the display for everyone to view. People share the news they find intriguing, state how they feel, like anybody's status on social networking websites. Consequently, people get to know what the other is thinking about (Park et.al, 2009). These days, people are so much addicted to connectivity that they cannot imagine any hour or any moment of theirs spent without having online connectivity. If one is not able to share his thoughts on a social networking website due to non-connectivity then he starts to enter initial stages of ...