Social media has assumed such a role in our everyday lives that it has now become almost impossible to do anything without it. From the private lives to business and politics, social media has now become indispensable. Social networking is affecting our lives in many ways.
Effect on Personal Life
Personal life has been affected the most by social networking. Services like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace have connected people very effectively around the globe. People now feel very convenient to send messages of happy birthdays, congratulations, felicitations and condolence to each other. These services have reduced the distances and now people need not meet physically to express their feelings. Apart, this is now the fastest and most reliable means of communication available to society. These networking websites have rendered the institutions of postal services and telephonic services as obsolete. People now cannot afford to wait for hours and days to communicate rather would take few seconds to contact others on the internet.
Easy Dating and Marriages
Online dating and chatting services have made it easy for all the contenders of making new and suitable relationship. Most of the information can now be shared on the internet and hence lot of time, effort and money is saved. Moreover one has lot of variety and flexibility in selecting a suitable match. Though a number of online dating frauds have also surfaced but this cannot be taken as a general rule.
Business and Careers
Social networking services have gone a long way in promoting businesses. Apart from advertisement and e-shopping, these services have enhanced the concepts of online marketing and affiliate marketing. This has enabled many people to earn handsome money while working from home.
Career counseling services and job opportunities have increased manifold due to the advent of social networking websites. One can now visit a large number of companies and organizations all over the world and send CV to get the jobs. A large number of educated people have managed to get good jobs with handsome salaries with just one click on the internet.
Awareness and Education
Social media is playing active role in enhancing education and awareness level in society. Today people, particularly the youth, are very well aware about the social, political and economic problems in the society and are better placed to help out the persons in destitute. Social media has been instrumental in bringing political changes. The Arab spring is a glaring example of an effective use of social media networks services.