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? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.

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Nowadays, many people believe that social media has many advantages, but some people say that social media has a
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of disadvantages, and that help criminal to do bad things. I agree that social media has advantages and disadvantages to the users.
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, in my opinion, the benefits that social media brings about are
trendmendous
extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
tremendous
and exceed its negative effects.
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, social media can help people connect to the whole world, people can chat, and even meet a person through chat video on social media.
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, on some well-known social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,..., there are some education channel and that page share a
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of useful thing that help pupil to increase their knowledge. Just sitting at home, people can connect and explore the world through their foreign friends and some pages.
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, through video chat, a student can
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learn
online, ask what they don’t know with their teacher and maybe exchange
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about learning with their friends from different schools in the world. Fourthly, people can advertise about their company so that a
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of people would know, and that
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helps
the manager to get more money.
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social media has a
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of advantages, it
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has some disadvantages.
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, some people, especially children at a very young age, don’t know what to do with social media, so they connect with bad people and those bad people lead children to bad things. There are people who might not have the intention to harm us,
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, introduce games and other toxic materials, like pornography, trends, memes, etc.
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That
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makes
us addicted or mentally harmed.
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, uploading our own
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on social media is not safe, some people call ‘hacker’ can see our
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and do bad things.
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, they can use our
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to make a new nick on our
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and they can even steal money from the bank thanks to that
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. To conclude, social media has a
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of advantages, but
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also has
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also have
some disadvantages. But those disadvantages are really rare, so I believe that we can overcome that and make the social media, a great and safe place to entertain and study.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Social media platforms
  • Connectivity
  • Self-expression
  • Creativity
  • Global communication
  • Instantaneous communication
  • Personal growth
  • Career advancement
  • Privacy concerns
  • Identity theft
  • Cyberbullying
  • Addiction
  • Productivity
  • Misinformation
  • Crisis
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