The Impact of the Internet on

Social behavior

JUNE 14

P R E PA R E D B Y: YA S M I N S A M Y F O U A D

ID No. : 4D190084

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Introduction:

Majority of people owns a smartphone, accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and you have
probably found yourself on more than one occasion ignoring a friend - or a member of your family -
sitting with you in the same room because you are completely involved in your own social technology
world. This technology will never make us feel lonely or bored, but - unfortunately - it can make us
less attentive to our closest people, and it may make it difficult for us to evacuate ourselves a little, and
many of us are afraid to admit it. "We are still in a romantic relationship with this technology," said
Sherry Turkle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We are like young lovers who are afraid
to spoil their emotional relationships by talking about them." Turkel interviewed hundreds of people of
all ages and asked them about their uses of smartphones, tablets, social media, avatars, and robots.
Unlike previous inventions that brought about a boom, such as a printing or television machine, Turkel
sees this technology as "constantly connected, self-centered" that threatens to undermine some of the
fundamental strengths that people have and that they need to thrive. In this article, we will discuss the
risks and opportunities we face as a result of our increasing use of advanced communications
technology via the Internet and also our concerns, as well as its cautious optimism that the current
generation will overcome these challenges.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Social media technology on our social
relationships and social behaviour.

There are many advantages and disadvantages of social relationships, within this article we’ll discuss
the advantages and disadvantages of the social media as a communication tools for communication
with our social networking.

First, the advantages of Social media is :

 to be able to stay connected to friends and families in today’s fast paced and ever-changing
worlds.
 You are able to rekindle old friendships.
 We can interact with many peoples and we can make new friends and sometimes those people
become a part of your life.

 Increased criminal prosecution because of social media, The NYC police department began
using Twitter back in 2011 to track criminals foolish enough to brag about their crimes online.
When the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup in 2011, their Vancouver fans took to the
streets and rioted, but local authorities used social media to track and tag the people involved,
and they caught people who were stealing during the riot.

 Social networking creates new social connections

 Statistics show that 70% of adults have used social media sites to connect with relatives in
other states, and 57% of teens have reported making new friendships on social media sites.

 Students are doing better in school.

 This is an interesting statistic about the pros and cons of social media and its effect on students
doing well in school. Students with internet access at a rate of 50% have reported using social
networking sites to discuss school work, and another 59% talk about instructive topics.

 Better quality of life.

 The support groups on Facebook. Members of these groups discuss their health conditions,
share important information, and resources relevant to their conditions while creating strong
support networks.
 Social media as a source of employment. Job sourcing has gone modern thanks to social media.
Sites such as LinkedIn are a major resource that 89% of job recruiters take advantage of when
looking to hire potential employees.

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Now, we will discuss some disadvantages like:
 Having access to people’s lives at all times is not always a good thing.
 A new trend of cyber bullying is wreaking havoc all across the world.
 One of the biggest problems with the social media craze is that people are becoming more and
more addicted to using it but it depends on how much you use it.

 Much of the news information that people read about comes from social media websites, and
that figure estimate is around 27.8 %. This figure ranks just under print newspapers at 28.8%,
greater than radio’s figure of 18.8% and far outpaces the figure for other print publications at
just 6%.

 Too much misinformation. With the advent of the web, people started to create their own
websites and blogs. While many of those blogs were just basic diaries, a few of them were
about topics like health and politics. Many blogs have turned into rumour mills, spreading
misinformation that people tend to believe just because it’s on the web.

 Pupils spending too much time on social media sites have lower academic grades.

 Statistics show that pupils using social media too often tend to have GPA’s of 3.06 compared to
GPA’s of 3.82 for pupils who don’t use social media. An even scarier fact is that students who
use social media tend to score 20 % lower on their test scores then their counterparts.

 Social media sites to blame for lost productivity. Social media platforms like Facebook and
Twitter are a direct cause for lost productivity at the workplace. In a survey 36 % of people said
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 that social networking was the biggest waste of time in comparison to activities like fantasy
football, shopping, and watching television.
 Social media is the cause for less face to face communication. One last discussion about the
pros and cons of social media is a lack of one on one communication. In a 2012 study families
who reported spending less time with one another rose from a level of 8% in 2000 to 32% in
2011.The study also reported that 32 % of the people in the survey either were texting or were
on social media sites instead of communicating with each other during family gatherings.

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Summary .
The Internet is a double-edged sword that can be used well by the individual and brings great benefits
to him, or be misused and used to harm him badly, just as technology and people are the basis of
development and development in our present era, in the absence of the Internet and technology many
people cannot Of upgrading and achieving their aspirations for a better life. The Internet is a means of
serving the community according to its needs, which may be positive as research or negative as non-
targeted sites. As for the negative effects of the Internet, it may contribute to breaking the moral
immunity of its users when entering pornographic and non-targeted sites, and also contributes to
weakening social communication Among family members, which leads to the weakness of society as a
whole, where the individual spends great times on social networking sites such as Facebook,
Messenger and WhatsApp and does not perform his family duties in the fullest way, and the frequent
use by the individual makes him live in the world of imagination, and pushes him to learn Aggressive
behaviour, and this affects his academic and social performance, and this negatively affects society and
family life. As for the positive effects of the Internet, it is educationally leading to great benefits,
because it contains a tremendous amount of valuable and valuable information, as it contributes to
sharing information between people and exchanging opinions, in addition to the learner getting the
latest updates in the educational curricula, and helps the disabled at ease Learn and reach their goals.
Also, caution must be taken by parents, especially when adolescents use the various internet networks,
and constantly monitor them to avoid them in error at this sensitive stage, and they must also be
directed and given different advice by the school and various educational institutions, in order to rise
and use their minds active in Useful actions and things that society promotes and develops.

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