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 impact of social media on our lives is a highly debated topic. Majority of people argues the effects of using these sites are dangerous. I utterly agree with

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statement,

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essay will delve into reasons and opine my opinions with relative illustrations.

To begin

with, Social Media

websites

is the biggest threat to our personal and social life.

For instance

, a person spends hours on these

websites

communicating is so engrossed in the web world that he prefers to stay and communicate via a website

instead

of going out with friends, spending time one on one.

This

means their social circle is limited to their online world, in real life they are left with no-one.

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, recent studies

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, a person who spends the majority of his time over

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nternet are more likely to feel lonely.

Secondly

, these

websites

sell their user personal information to the marketing firms.

For example

, Facebook was penalized by the US government in regards to selling

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ersonal information of its millions of user to Cambridge Analytica.

This

company used

this

information to sabotage the 2016's presidential election.

This

is a huge crime, selling personal data about its user for monetary gain.

Lastly

,

websites

likes are designed in a way that users get hooked to it, it can easily define as border-line addiction. Social media addiction exists, people spending hours and hours on it without realizing the repercussion of it.

For example

, A student wasting hours of his time on

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nternet,

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of studying will result in bad grades in

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inal. To sum up, if not used in moderation social platforms can harmful effects on us and our society. It has impacted all our social interactions, we rather speak to people online than a person

next

to us.

This

habit needs to be monitored on an individual level, we should begin understanding our addiction and try to break away from it.