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

Trend
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The trend
of using social media,
specially
to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common
especially
Facebook, is increasing nowadays.
However
, a big portion of society propagates that it has very detrimental effects on
community
Suggestion
the community
along with individuals. I partially disagree with given statement, as its contrary aspects cannot be ignored as well. Let us discuss both aspects in the coming paragraphs. On one hand, social sites provide many benefits to both society and
individual person
Suggestion
individual persons
individual people
the individual person
. On individuals -
First
of all, it helps one to do group studies online with experts. Many English coaching groups are there on Facebook which helps individuals to learn with overseas tutors and interact with native speakers without any hesitation.
Next
is, people can expand their business by advertising about their products and details on Facebook. By
this
, many people will see their products which in turn do marketing and give profits to them
.
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.
On community- social media
provides
Suggestion
provide
information around the globe and make people aware with their surroundings. To illustrate, nowadays, outburst of COVID-19 made people home
arrest but
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arrest, but
with
help
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the help
of social sites people can get news about
surroundings
Suggestion
the surroundings
. On
other hand
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the other hand
, it imposes negativities
also
. Primarily, it promotes fake news. Sometimes narcissistic people spread
rumors
gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
rumours
about debating issues which creates riots in society.
For example
, in Feb- 2020, wrong news was posted regarding NRC /
CAA which
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CAA, which
created problems on roads in Delhi.
Second point
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The second point
is health problems due to over usage in certain individuals
.
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.
Most youngsters glued to
screen
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the screen
screens
a screen
and using media
all the
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all, the
day which causes issues
such
as depression, weight gain, eye damage, isolation so on.
For instance
, WHO reported, 40% of people suffered from depression due to constant use of social media. To conclude,
although
social networking sites have many negatives globally, positives are
also
many in very profitable ways
.
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.
If proper awareness provided,
such
disadvantages could be ameliorated.
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