Elaborate your thoughts on recent electronic social network

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Social media is responsible for greater communication and a wider range of relationships. Social media is made up of a plethora of forums that people use to connect to each other. Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter are the new wave of communication and are the fastest growing means for meeting people, keeping people updated, and connecting with friends and family. Social media sites remind people of important days and events that they might not have known about otherwise, everything from church events to school closings are communicated via social media. Social media has also revolutionized the way companies and businesses communicate with employees. Employers can even browse social media sites to make decisions about employees by viewing their personal interactions with others. Social media impacts the way our culture interacts.
It is an innate human desire to find companionship, share ideas and even compete with one another. Social media websites were created because people had these desires and they wanted better connections. Social media has opened a broad spectrum of ways for people to fulfill basic and complex communicative needs. Through social media one can stay in touch with family members who do not live nearby. It is a way to watch their cousins, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren as they grow and not just see them sparingly but also get to watch and interact with them. It also allows the human competitive nature to compare itself to others based on their social media profiles. People in recent decades have connected through phones, mail, and more recently email and texting. Presently, people continue to use these avenues to set up face-to-face meetings or connect via technology. However, with time technology has evolved to include the original functions of these devices while improving ways to connect to more than one person at a time and to share visuals for everyone to see.

However, social media may also have some negative effects on our lives and the way people interact. First of all, it is argued that social media may insulate us from the people that surround us. Although these platforms make communication easier and more flexible with those far away, they can have the opposite impact on our relationships with the people we live with. Who has not been in a family or friends\' reunion, where everyone is just looking at their smartphones or tablets rather than speaking to each other?

Social networks serve to disseminate information, but the validity of this information cannot always be verified. Thus, social media can be used to spread rumors, propaganda, and misleading information. Sometimes this information can have negative impact on the lives of people. Apologies and rectifications tend not to reach as many people and travel as fast as flashy erroneous information. Harm is not always undone or compensated.

Social networking distracts us. Social media have become a source of entertainment but also a means of procrastination. With people often checking Facebook, Whatsapp, or Twitter every five minutes, it is likely that their productivity at work diminishes. We are constantly bombarded with notifications from social media. Many of them are of no use to our lives. Worse even, in many cases social media may turn into an addiction or obsession with negative psychological impacts on our lives.

Privacy is also at risk because social media. Pictures and videos of everyone are circulating through the internet. Even if we try to be careful, there is no way we can prevent other people from posting pictures of us or our families on Facebook, Twitter or other social media. How many times have you found yourself removing a tag from a somewhat inappropriate picture taken at a party? Social media are also making it more difficult to separate our professional and social lives. We end up being \"Facebook friends\" with colleagues, and in some cases this may backfire. Police surveillance and social media monitoring by governments may also make you feel uncomfortable.