Is Social Media Actually Connecting People?

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Pravesh kumar Bachaliya said:   2 years ago
I believe that social media is shaped by how we use it and has both positive and negative aspects. On the positive side, social media is essential for maintaining connections with family and friends.

Platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp allow us to stay in touch and engage with our loved ones, making them an important part of our everyday lives.

However, there is a negative side, particularly for people, who can easily fall victim to scams on social media.
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Bovaz said:   2 years ago
Hello everyone,

In my opinion, nowadays it is not essential for us if we use it wisely it plays a major role or else if we use it for entertainment purposes it shorts videos scrolling should be addicted by everyone that thing makes our brain addicted to short-term happiness and one more point nowadays social media platform like Instagram, Facebook has many negative contents if we saw those contents that make us feelings stress and depression so in my point of view use social media platform as a knowledge purpose, not for entertainment.
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Sahana M M said:   2 years ago
Good evening friends I would like to introduce the topic first topic goes like this is social media connecting people?

For this, my opinion be yes. In today's technological world, we can connect with people easily through online. We can connect with people through WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram and the people who do not use these apps are also connected through the video call in normal or just by making a normal call. As technology upgrades we need to upgrade our lives with technology otherwise we are just living like how our ancestors lived and how tribes lived. For us everything in hand we can do connect with people by texting, calling, and video calling but can't physically.

We can easily connect with our loved ones and also social media is somewhat everything in nowadays situation because I never see anyone without a phone, if they have a phone means they will know how to use it I'm not saying it is wrong. Social media is helping in every step of payment, ordering food, ordering the dress paying the current bill and so on things can be done in the place we are sitting. But the thing is how much we are mentally addicted to that even small kids are addicted so much. If it continues they will lose their life and also they will get so many diseases because of social media.

I'm not saying it is wrong but the thing is how we are using it, for what purpose we are using it and how much time we are spending in social media everything matters. It is in our hands only how we are going to make use of the things and how much we are benefiting from this upgrading technology this makes sense in life. We should be aware of all the things and make use of the things correctly.

At last, I would like to conclude this by saying everything has its own advantages and disadvantages before that it is our responsibility to make use of things in the right way.
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Krisha said:   2 years ago
In my opinion, social media can connect people like facebook, Instagram, and twitter, where we can meet people around the world and interact with them. But there is important concern about the person's other side. Like nowadays it is very easy to make a fake profile of anyone and use it. We really can't tell the intention of the other person.

Thus making an icreasse in number of cyber crime cases.
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Pratik khade said:   2 years ago
Hello everyone,
My name is Pratik.

First, I want to introduce our topic "is social media connecting people?".
I think social media is connecting people because in this era all know how to use social media.
Some people use using for only for entertainment some using for study
Some share their photos in social media when they go on trips or purchase new things like cars, bikes etc.

And talk about education:
We got all the information about the college and schools what would happen in tomorrow and if any meetings in the college they informed us through WhatsApp. This is not only for education this is for all other fields.
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Noel said:   2 years ago
Hi, I am Vignesh.

In this generation, social media plays a pivotal role in everyone's life. But regarding the question of whether people are getting connected, my opinion is NO. The people I see want to be on social media for entertainment and comfort.
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SRI JYO said:   2 years ago
Hello! this is Sri Jyothi.

As per the topic of social media.

It's impacting today's generation and there are a lot of pros and cons.

In my opinion, the way of using social media is very important but there is a lot of distracting content available due to that content people are addicted.

Adult content is also available in social media due to this content it's impacting relationships and bonds.

That's why India is in first position which country is using social media the most.

People are attracted to unwanted content hence they are wasting they are most of their time in social media.
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Sanjay said:   2 years ago
Hello everyone,

I am Sanjay. I want to share my thoughts about social media connecting people. In my opinion, connecting people through social media is very easy, especially for students.

For example, LinkedIn is a very helpful platform for students to connect with successful people in their careers. Thirty years ago, it was very difficult to reach people, but now networking with people around the world is very easy.

However, on the other hand, it is also ruining real-life relationship bonds.
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Anil said:   2 years ago
As you said, There are lot of pros and cons to using social media,

I'm going with the positive side by using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter we can connect with the people whom we know in real time it makes our relationship more strong. We get the information within a fraction of a second by using social media platforms.

And the other side of the coin, it has times we lose the connection due to some reasons, and we get invalid or fake information. Most of the cyber crimes are happening by using social media platforms by clicking links and saying OTPs to unknown candidates. Sometimes we spend an of time on social media platforms as a result of this we don't get time to our family, our loved ones and our parents and children.

So, by using this platform we must have care, responsibility and balanced time.
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Anonymous said:   2 years ago
It won't be wrong to say that social media does "connect people". You get to know more about the lives of your loved ones. Distance does feel very small with the introduction of new technologies and social media platforms.

But something that it also does is disconnect you from the surroundings and the people around you. It gets difficult to distinguish a thin line between the virtual and the real world. The chances of this happening are bleak if you know how and when to use social media platforms.

In my opinion, technology can never be proved wrong if used with precautions and good motives.
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