Social Media EFL

Fabian Gallegos

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Does social media affect people's self-esteem and self-image?

Introduction

A social media is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. The impact of social networks on young people is significant and increasing over time.

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Social Media Platforms

Social media platforms allow users to have conversations, share information and create web content. Social media has different forms, together with blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, social networking sites, photo-sharing sites, instant messaging, video-sharing sites, podcasts, widgets, virtual worlds, and more. Billions of people around the world use social media to share information and make connections

LEER MÁS

Popular Social Media Sites

App intelligence from data.ai suggests that YouTube has the greatest number of active users today, giving the platform an index of 100 [note that the top platform in this ranking will always have an index of 100]. WhatsApp and Facebook rank second and third (respectively), with this data suggesting that Meta’s top messaging platform has a greater number of active app users than its top social network.

Hard Data

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Positive Effects

Social media provide Health Care Professionals with tools to share information and to promote health behaviors, to engage with the public, and to educate and interact with patients, students, and colleagues.

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Negative Effects

Person to person communication destinations render the opportunities for individuals to reconnect with their old companions, partners and mates. Itadditionally causes individuals to influence new companions, to share content, pictures, sounds, recordings among them. Web-based social networking moreover changes the life style of society.

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• SnapChat
• TikTok
• WhatsApp
• Pinterest
• Flickr
• Patreon
• Google Services
• Adult Platforms

• LinkedIn

• Youtube
• Facebook
• X (previously Twitter)
• Instagram
• Tumblr

This research is based on secondary data collected from the online sources, different research papers and from the Google search engine. It was also used some data gathering tools (On Site Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires) for gathering information about the usage ofsocial media in general.

Users in each

Platform.

 Sharing of Doctors prescriptions to friends, relativesand colleagues. Sharing Suggestions among friends, relatives and colleagues about various diseases and its symptoms.  Access to information in developing regions. Social Media helps in promoting the Business allover the World.  Social Media builds deals and client maintenance through standard connection and auspicious client benefit.  Social Media provides rich customer experiences.  With Social media monitoring you can gain key information about your competitors.

• Sharing knowledge: It provides an easy and an effective way in which students can share knowledge. Students can simply access the information, study, transform (if needed) and share. Hence, the flow of knowledge becomes smooth.

 Incorrect self-diagnosis  Potential breach of privacyNegative customer reviews are harmful.  Highly time consuming.  The web is crowded with more and more content.  A mistake made on social media is hard to rectify. Loss of motivation in students: The student‘s motivational level lessens because of the utilization of these long range interpersonal communication locales. They depend on the virtual condition as opposed to increasing reasonable learning from this present reality.

• Hacking – Personal information and security can be hacked and shared on the Internet. Some twitter and Facebook accounts have been hacked in the past and the programmer had posted materials that have influenced the person's lives.