Bad Impacts of Using Social Media

Social media are online media which makes the users can easily do communication to other users. The social media use internet connection. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein defined that social media are “a group which basically on internet which building based on ideology and technology, and make possibility to create and exchange the users-generated-content. According to Cohen ( 2015) : Social media are the platforms that enables the interactive web by engaging users to participate in, comment on and create content as means of communicating with their social graph, other users and the public.

          Social media have many kinds of different characteristics, have different surplus, have different minus, etc. The example of social media are blogspot, blackberry messenger, instagram, path, we heart it, snap chat, periscope, facebook, twitter, and so on. The most users of social media are teenagers. According the statistics use of social media are almost unavoidable and 73% of teens 12–17 are using face book. But workers sometimes also have account of social media, but maybe they are not too rarely use their account.

          Social media make the users easily to do communication with other peole who far from the users. Social media also make the users easily get the information about what just happening. Not only we can get information, but also social media also can educate about technology. In other hand, social media also create bad impacts for the users. The bad impacts of using social media are pornography, cyber crime, being addicted, being difficult to do communication in the real life, and less the private of the users.

          First, pornography, internet and social media are place which the user can post whatever the likes. Include they can post photos or videos who actually are their private, but they share in public. Sometimes we don’t really recognize them. They maybe can take and save our private collection and whatever they like, they can share to public our private collection. They also can edit our photo with sense of pornography. In social media contain some pornography account which in form photos or videos. As parents, they have to check social media account of their child. When their child has social media, parents also have to have social media account. So, they are can check their children’s social media accounts. When parents get pornography account in children’s social media account, they have to ask to them, then parents can give some advices.

          Second, cyber crime, it means do crimes in the internet, which include in social media, for example : the cases in Indonesia, some teenagers of the users facebook, they are victims of cyber crime. Some of them become victims of deception, kidnapping, killing, moreover raping. Firstly, they suspect become friends of victims’ social media. After that, they chat them by social media, after that they chat them and invite the victims to meet. When they were met, the suspect begin do their crime as they planning. So, the users of social media have to careful chat and become friends with someone who not they recognize in social media. The example of the case occurred on September 2015, a student of junior high school Budi Utomo Depok which have initial name ASS, and she is 14 years old was kidnap by a man who she recognize at social media. A man who kidnap give two hundred thousand rupiahs to the girl. During the victim with kidnapper, he was raped the girl 4 times.

          Third, they are being addicted. Research team headed by Wilhelm Hoffmann of Chicago University concluded in 2012 that twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol. (Source BY ELIZABETH KOIKAI IN CURRENT AFFAIRS & DEBATE — 8 MAY, 2013). Someone who was addicted of social media, make they not optimally doing their duties. For example : when students being addicted of social media, they like to post everything which they do to public. This is make they can’t concentrate to study. They maybe also prefer choose their gadget to post something than to write a book for study. So, a day to a day they can’t live without gadget. They will being addicted and in every time and everywhere, from wake up until go to bed, they always use their gadget.

          Fourth, they are difficult to do communication with people around them. The users of social media usually do communication by internet or not face to face. So, they are who usually do communication by unreal world will difficult when have to do communication in the real world. The users of social media who was addicted of using social media sometimes not care with something around them. They also become egoist, because they are emphasize themselves. People who like online on social media, when meet with their friend they look prefer concentrate on their gadget, so they not communication by face to face.

          Fifth, they are will less their private collection. Because in social media they can post everything. The users of social media without aware publish something which actually we not necessary or not suitable for publish in public. So, the users of social media can know everything about us just by read our timeline. The other users of social media can look arrogant when they share everything about them.

          In conclusion, social media is online media which makes the users can easily do communication to other users. Social media can give good impacts if we use smartly.

          Second also can create bad impacts, such as : pornography, cyber crime, being addicted, difficult to do communication and less private collection. So, the user have to careful when use social media. They also have to balance or not over when use social media. Better the user post something important, informative, educate or entertainment in their social media. So, social media can result good or bad impacts depend the users.