Role of Social Media in Education

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gmails and Google are the best example of social media. Aside from cellphones, social medias are now the newest way of sending message, communicating your friends and love ones, storing information, sharing ideas, disseminating news and most of all posting pictures together with the caption on it describing or sharing the happenings in the life of an individual. The real question is thus social media helpful or not when it comes to education. Well, if I am to be ask by this question, I would really say "Yes" because as a student right now social media is very big help to me. Nowadays that modern technology is invading the whole wide world. Social media is the very best tool to educate an individual. All question that bothering to us in just one click answers are all appeared in the monitor. In this generation, social media are been using as a classroom because teachers and students interaction are through social media. Maybe they do not meet personally but the goal and eagerness of a teacher to educate somebody is still remain.

Social media was very important to us but what we never know is it has its advantages and disadvantages depending on how we used it. Social media nowadays the source or where some crimes happened on our country.  Liers and those person taking advantage to others are just some examples of  person using social media on a wrong way that makes social media not in good terms. As we used social media we should always remember that it has a positive (advantage) and negative (disadvantages) to be consider. Here are some advantages and disadvantages of social media mentioned by Marz Fuentz :

ADVANTAGES:

1. Bringing people togetherWe all know that social media facilitates open communication and enhancing information discovery and delivery. Everyone can find new people, meet their friends and communicate to their love ones all over the world. When promoting campaigns and ideas, it allows people from the different geographical location to express and share their views and meet in a single point as well as promoting global products.

2. Breadth of knowledgePeople can experience the broadness of knowledge and connectedness through social media use. It is easier for them to know or find out different information or something about almost anything in the world through a connected media. For students, who are also engaged to this activities, it can give them the benefit of being exposed to technology and can be connected to a broader base of opinions and world views through global connections. Social media provides tools for helping students to work together to create their own meaning in work environments, social contexts and especially academic subjects.

3. Technological literacyOne cannot be engaged in deep and meaningful uses of technology without developing some sorts of simple skills. All social media relies on advanced information and communication technologies that work to build and support technological literacy for people. This can help learners to connect in an economy and become a valuable contributor.

4. Opportunity to widen businessIt could always be a fun and creative method of doing your business because it not just allows employees to discuss and share ideas, ask questions, post news and share links but it minimize the use of advertising to businesses and also improves business reputation. It also creates a more competent and reliable business.

5. Attracts attentionAside from building loyalty and long-term relations to your audience, social media can attract attention to your site, product or services.

DISADVANTAGES:

1. Understanding on how it worksYou need to understand how social media works, when and how to use it and which channels to focus on depending on your end goal of using social media in order to get its full effects.2. Commits illegal crime

Social media may open possibility for hackers to commit illegal crime such as fraud, spam and virus attacks. People falling prey to online scam may also increase, resulting in data or identity theft.

3. Viral social disadvantageThis may damage one’s reputation. The wrong online brand strategy could put you on this.

4. Negative effects on worker productivityResults in lost productivity and employees may use social media to attack the company’s reputation. Instead of working in their time of work, they can waste such valuable time using social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook. This may result in negative comments from employees about the company or potential legal consequences if employees use these sites to view objectionable, illicit or offensive material.

5. DistractionMost people who suffer from this are students. Instead of doing their homeworks they tend to fail their academic endeavors because of using social media in the wrong way.

6. Serious detrimental outcomes on individual’s healthWhen social media is used in a wrong way, it may have a negative effect on both mental and physical health of individual.

Use social media in a better way!