Social media is becoming increasingly popular amongst all age groups. However, sharing personal information on social media websites does have risks. Do you think that the advantages of social media outweigh the disadvantages?

Since the social media has been

invented it

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invented, it

become a major platform for communication and people can keep themselves up to date with their

live

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lives

life

and about their families and friends lives as well. But many people believe that, positing your personal information has

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potential

risks.

However

, social media has its risks. As people of all ages have access to social media, children are more prone and can easily

exposed

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expose

to adult

content

and approached by strangers with unknown intentions

such

as

pedophiles

an adult who is sexually attracted to children

paedophiles

. Even if children are sure of who they are talking to, still it does not eliminate its dangers.

For instance

, cyber bullying, we heard about it in

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the news

frequently.

In addition

to

this

, parents feel that their children are home and away from their bullies and are in

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the safe

the safest

environment, but still at some point they are still bullied by their bullies on social media which sometimes disturbs the children mentally so badly that they end up committing suicide.

Furthermore

, social media can be problematic for adults as well. Sometimes it affects their jobs as well, the way they are positing and sharing their information on social websites.

For example

, when they post about things which they don’t even do in their real lives. They can indirectly cause a bad impression on other people and as well as on their employers and if in case the employer judges the

content

you post on social media and he/she feels uncomfortable about the

content

might cost you your job or sometimes it is difficult to keep or attain your job if you present yourself as a different person on social media.

However

, if people are more aware while using and sharing their personal information on social media and only post respectful and respectable

content

,

then

definitely the advantages of social media outweighs the disadvantages.

Finally

, children and adults can easily be benefited from

such

technology.