Social media provides benefits in the Philippines such as being a source of information and enabling e-learning during the pandemic. However, it also has disadvantages like negatively impacting users' mental and physical health by increasing risks of depression, anxiety, and loneliness from prolonged exposure. It can also invade users' privacy as hackers can access and spread private information not meant for public view.
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE PHILIPPINES
Social media provides benefits in the Philippines such as being a source of information and enabling e-learning during the pandemic. However, it also has disadvantages like negatively impacting users' mental and physical health by increasing risks of depression, anxiety, and loneliness from prolonged exposure. It can also invade users' privacy as hackers can access and spread private information not meant for public view.
Social media provides benefits in the Philippines such as being a source of information and enabling e-learning during the pandemic. However, it also has disadvantages like negatively impacting users' mental and physical health by increasing risks of depression, anxiety, and loneliness from prolonged exposure. It can also invade users' privacy as hackers can access and spread private information not meant for public view.
Social Media is a means of interaction among people in which
they can interact, create, share or exchange information and ideas through virtual communities and social networks. It is indeed useful and also fun, and so, here are some of it's positive implications in our country.
Source of Information
Nowadays, news travels like wildfire especially with
the help of social media. With just a few clicks, you can easily access the web and stay updated to the current issues and matters of the Filipino society.
E-Learning
During the new normal, social media served as
the primary mediator in order for the student and the teacher to still interact, despite the distance. Education during the pandemic was done virtually with the aid of social media.
CONS
Contrary to the benefits that social media
provides, it also has it's disadvantages.
Affects the Mental and Physical
Health of the User
Research found out that prolonged exposure to
social media increases the risk of depression, anxiety, loneliness and even suicidal thoughts. This behavior also deprives the user to perform regular physical activities thus, resulting to becoming physically unhealthy.
Invasion of Privacy
Some people possess the skills to access and hack
one's information in social media. Causing the spread of personal matters that are not meant to be publicized resulting to the destruction of a person's image in the society.