Author: Vlada Meniailenko

Nowadays, in the 21st century, computer technologies make huge steps in improving our life, so programs and our interests have changed. Now we have social networks which can help and destroy our life.

On the one hand, firstly, we can find new friends and important communication from another country. Can you imagine, how our ancestors spoke with people who lived, for example, in nowadays America? They have never known about them while we can call or write to our friends from another mainland in a few seconds.

Secondly, social networks can become a great solution for people with disabilities or those who for some reason have to stay at home all the time. In some situations, they can completely substitute real-life communication and help such people not to feel lonely or socially isolated. Numerous special interest groups let them find friends and interesting dialogue partners.

Thirdly, sometimes social networking sites help to find really precious and useful information. In different groups, people from all over the world discuss various issues, share their personal experiences, provide useful links, write comments and reviews for goods and services. You in turn can ask any question and get answers from different people. Also, social networks give a great opportunity to distribute any information within the shortest possible time. Many people today learn news from SNS. If something really important happened, the best way to inform people of this is to post the information in some popular Facebook groups.

However, on the other hand, by social networks we lost real communication, we forget about going walking with friends and family. Personally I, try to find time for the evening with my friends and relatives. Now communication on the internet takes away from us the opportunity to live in real life.

Secondly, another major problem associated with social networking sites is the leakage of information. Posting any personal information, you can never know for sure where it will reemerge. Anyone can use your personal photos, and in most cases, you cannot prevent it. Even if you think that your personal page is protected with a safe password, you are mistaken, because good hackers can break it at one stroke.

Moreover, apart from useful content, any social network contains tons of useless, hazardous and dangerous information, which is easily accessible to children. Violence, erotic, propaganda of drugs and other forbidden content is regularly deleted by moderators, but it appears again too quickly for them to cope with it.

To sum up, taking all the above-mentioned into consideration, despite disadvantages I suppose, social networks influence our life without them.

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