LO1 - Task 2 - Social effects of social media products

Facebook - 
Positive : The positive aspects of this product is the fact that it alows instant communication between people and the popularity of this feature is evident through the fact that the messenger app may end up being more popular than the Facebbok app. Another positive aspect of Facebook is that it allows important issues to be circulated around a specific community easily. Facebook also allows users to stay up to date with almost anyhting, from politics to celebrities, films and music to video games. One of the biggest benefits of Facebook to my life has been the messenger feature. As any time im trying to organise anything with family or friends it's almost always done on Facebook Messenger.

Negative: Facebook had also had a ngative impact socially as people are not actually metting eeach other anymore, instead they are choosing to speak to each other over the internet. In some cases this is not a bad thing for example, as a said earlier, I use it to arrange going out with friends and so do a lot of other people I know, but this is not hre case universally. Another negative aspect is not directly caused by Facebook itself but some Facebook users who decide that their anonymity on the internet is the perfect excuse to torment people. While some people may ignore potentially hurtful comments, it is not so simple for someone who may already have a low self-esteem. 'Trolling' is also a mojor issue that plagues all social media, not just Facebook. 'Trolls' post hurtful, often extreme, comments directed at people that are meant only to hurt and upset a person Like cyber-bullying Trolls use internet anonymity to protect themeselves.

Twitter -
Positive : Twitter does have a direct messaging feature but it is not as much of a focus as it is on Facebook. Twitter focuses more on the news aspect in that recent updates from people you follow on your news feed. Another positve of twitter is that it so big that even a small niche business can find an audience. Twitter allows information to be communicated more directly as it limits the user to a maximum of 140 characters. Another positive of twitter is that Twitter allows much more direct communication between people, for example if someone tweets at a celebrity there is a much higher chance of them getting a response than on Facebook or other platforms.

Negative : As I said before when talking about the negatives of Facebook, Trolling and cyber-bullying are still very much present on Twitter. Twitter also isn't very good if you aren't good at expressing your thoughts in a small amount of characters as you are limited to 140 characters, the 140 character limit is both a positive and a negative depending on how you look at it. Social media is often claimed to be the cause of some peoples obsession with technology, while this is not true for everyone for some social media like Twitter and Facebook is definitely the cause of some if not most of the obsession with technology.