Many people believe that social networking sites (such as Facebook) have had a huge negative impact on both individuals and society. To what extent do you agree?

The advancement of new technology, especially about the way people interact virtually (

for example

, using Facebook), has brought some side effects either in individuals or societies.

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essay will highlight the drawbacks of these social networking sites. With regard to individuals, the

first

crucial disadvantage of

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as a result

,

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habit can affect their whole nature in real life. Beside doing not proper be

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manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

o get fame in social media, the negative impact of operating the sites is people, especially for the active user, frequently spend excessive time on their gadget screen to look at their social activity. In some cases, Facebook can be so addictive and make people forget that they have been connected to people via these sites for hours. As for Societies, one of the drawbacks of these conditions is the possibility to create a wrong social movement.

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is because few people can initiate to feed and distribute false information to mass people in social media and get an advantage from that situation.

For instance

, in the presidential election, people systematically do Black Campaign in

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candidate's

eputation.

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damaging the reputation, people can harness their Facebook account to make each candidate supporter gr

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group

o hate each other. To sum up, if people might not use social networking sites wisely, it will negatively affect societies and their citizens. To mitigate these issues, a few possible solutions are to make influencing campaigns about how to use social networking sites properly and reinforcing the information & technology law that can keep up in

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