SocialMedia

 

Nepal Open University

Sub: E- pedagogy

Submitted by: Jharana Shahi                Submitted to: Mr. Karna Rana

Social media are the modern tools for communication. There are the platforms like Facebook, instgram, twitter etc., which gives chance to connect people in long distance, also gives platform to keep idea thought and opinion. Simply whole world is at our finger tips. Social media are being quit popular these days because of its user friendly feature.

In today’s world it is undeniable that social media play an important role in impacting our culture, our economy and overall view of world. It is new forum that brings people to exchange idea, connect with related. Social media not only gives facilitates as communicator but also as advance officer. Social media give confidence which we may not have in real life. It is quite beneficiary for introvert people to share their thoughts. It is helpful in education field too.

During pandemic social media not only keeps us in touch with our family and friends but also help in our professional life too. Many official unofficial meeting are attended by social media. Our school college classes are also conducted via a social media.

Social media platform are making it possible classroom more interesting and is improving the ability to do work. Many educational institutions and educationalist utilize social media page as medium for student to give notices and to empower their student connection with their teacher/ principal/ authorized person via a Facebook. Social media make people socialized which help in learning that individual will self-initiate, regulate learning and behavior pattern (Social learning theory).

Social media is not only used as way of communication or platform to share ideas and lifestyle but is also using business platform. It creates job opportunity for technical people like media handling, vlog making, online selling, online teaching/ counseling. Even people like us who are unable to take regular classes are able to continue our study via a social medial. There is no doubt, social media have enormous advantage and we cannot deny today’s world without social media at the same time social media have lots of negative impact on young minds.  Social media cannot consider safe for all age group. Small kids comes to expose content which are not good for their age group psychology like double meaning content, violence video,  adult content etc.. At the same time too much use of social media creating anxiety, depression. People post adoring videos, good lifestyle etc. and whatever other people see on social media they believe it as real only other peoples are enjoying, they compare their boring life with other’s colorful life and became sad. Excessive use of social media also increase problem of addiction for internet as well as some physical problems like headache, redness of eyes, sightedness of eyes, back pain, obesity, distraction from real world and sink into virtual world.

Social media itself is neither good nor bad but depends on how you handle it because it comes with lots of advantage and disadvantage. We cannot imagine our life without social media. Thus we have to manage its disadvantage by careful handling by making strong rules and regulation for problems like stocking, blackmailing. Violence online gaming is another serious problem are increasing people’s physical, verbal and antisocial aggression, so this should monitor by proper legislation.