About 49% of people in the world population uses social media. The number of potential users is increasing day by day. Different people use different social media platforms for liking, commenting, sharing, and viewing the content. But spending this much time on social media affects social life in different aspects. The excessive use of social media in our society has a huge impact in different ways upon us. We become lazy and using an excess of social media has an impact on our brain and we are mentally tired after spending time on social media. Like any other thing using social media can have many pros and cons.

Negative aspects of Social Media

• Excess use of social media will send people into depressing and create anxiety. They become possessive about little things and compare everything with themselves, for example, seeing glamour, perfect body, perfect skin, they want to be exactly the same traits in their personality and ended up with stress.
• There is a lot of disturbing content and thoughts were uploaded on social media which creates a bad impact on the mind. People spread hatred about a specific sector community.
• Social media made a person alone and socially awkward. He/she is not further interested in any activities and family. Those who are habitual of using Social Media cut off with other social activities and gatherings. They stop sharing their thoughts with family and friends.
• Inappropriate relations among the youngsters will put the family in trouble. Every day a new harassment story is on social media and private content shared among youngsters will, later on, destroy the life and career of family and also of themselves.
• Personal information and security issues are so common. Scam cases are increasing with every passing day.
• Fraud cases and scams on social media affected social life badly and have affected the person a lot. Many websites take the personal information of people while signing in process and latterly they sell the personal data of the individuals.
• Everything on social media is glamourous, this creates the inferiority complexes among people regarding physical appearances and financial status too.

Positive aspects of Social Media

There are so many positive points that support the usage of social media. It is a great source of information and knowledge.

• There are so many people in the family who are foreign to support their families. Through social media, they can contact family and have 24/7 communication
• There is so much facility for students and teachers as well in this pandemic as social media is the only source to flow the information.
• Online businesses have improved the lifestyle of many people. People are earning through different social media platforms by doing advertisements. Online Shopping becomes the biggest trend in these days. We can order anything from daily life essentials to luxurious products.
• Many officials float the information through social media. Most authentic information is traveled through twitter which is also a social media handle.
• Social media is also an emerging platform to gain justice. Many issues are resolved through social media platforms and get resolved.
• We can also get the virtual assistant from social media and get our tasks done in minutes.

It is up to a person how he/she used social media. If someone is positive, he/she will go towards positive. The Internet is our biggest need in these days. Without the Internet, the growth of the economy and an individual is not possible.