Post on 17-Feb-2023
1 Hijary Dr. Omar Baqabas
Research Method LANE 331
Date: 22 / 7 / 1435 H.
Benefits of Social Media
Nowadays, media is considered in a
technological ear as the most popular in the
media networks. Dabbagh & Reo said that Social
media is a 21st century term used widely to
identify a variety of network tools, or
technologies that emphasize the social aspects of
the Internet as a channel for communication,
collaboration, and creative expression, which is
often interchangeable with the terms Web 2.0 and
social software. (Dabbagh & Reo, 2011a)
2 Hijary People care more about technology because it
is easy to use it without having to think about
the limits of time and space. They can use it
anywhere and in different ways to accept their
needs in various fields.
Technological advances have increased
dramatically later on; therefore it was the
reason for the popularity of using media within
societies. Media can be in different forms such
as Television, Internet, Newspaper, and so on.
There is no much longer following up the news
through newspapers or even television. Social
media became the facilities for individuals
wherever they are. There is no doubt that social
3 Hijary media managed to be very important for many
aspects of people's lives.
Social media dominated the world and has
become an innovative way to communicate with each
other, to improve education, and to develop work
in different fields. Social media can be in
different software programs such as Facebook,
Twitter, Skype, YouTube, etc.
There have been efforts to develop
technologies in social media, to reach and create
a huge number of people who use social media to
communicate with each other, to enhance their
studying, and to improve their work.
4 Hijary Social media has both positive and negative
impacts on society and the behavior of
individuals. For example, people positively and
actively use social media in to keep in touch
with their family and friends, to improve their
studying, and to develop their work. However,
social media can affect the society negatively;
for example, the overuse of social media may lead
to addiction to Internet, and that can cause many
problems in people's lives. Social networks will
keep people isolated from the society and lead to
psychological conditions.
This research has shown a huge number of
people using social media. Even with its negative
5 Hijary and positive effects, they still are using social
media because it is so important to their lives.
The aim of this research is to enlighten the
benefits of social media. Social network services
have become one of the most useful means to
handle the needs of individuals in different
aspects.
There are many benefits of social media, and
this research will explain three aspects of them
through communication, studying and working.
6 Hijary Social Media in Communication
Over the last years social media quickly
became used into many aspects of our daily lives.
In other words, it became as the complement of
many parts of our lives. We can load it on
Smartphone's and use it continuously at anytime
and anywhere.
According to Anne Osterrieder '' Social media
is the ability of share content with other.'' It
allows users to share and interact online and to
connect with each other, especially like-minded
people. Recently, social media become the most
popular networks among young people.
7 Hijary Social media has different websites like
Facebook and YouTube that make it easy to keep in
touch with family and friends. It is used to
share information about what is happening and
why. Then you can decide how best to use the
available tools, including social media, to
achieve your improvements and communication.
Social media provides powerful communication
tools to engage a whole community. Researchers
think that social media has an important role but
there are concerns about the information that
some people share and the way they use it. For
example, they post details of their holidays on
Facebook, saying where they are going to and how
8 Hijary long they will be away. As a result, they give
the impression of what they do, what they feel,
and what they experienced in their lives or get
interested in. In this case, Facebook provides a
really useful source of information and to keep
you closely to your family and friends.
Social media adds a range of very powerful
tools to know the experiences of other people and
their stories. We all need to use and manage them
wisely. Communicating through social media can
help you to use it as a communication tool. It
gives you a chance to meet new people, to connect
with your family and friends, to show more about
their experiences and stories they shared, and to
9 Hijary know more about their cultures in different
countries around the world.
Some people use social media to make a
friendly relationship with other people.
Friendship means an informal relationship without
clear boundaries or mutual responsibilities. It
affects the culture of the these sites. However,
it is not limited to be friends only on these
sites as well as they can be friends in other
contexts. It is constructed in a way that
requires people to indicate relationship or
friendship with other participants. In contrast,
there are some people do not use social media
because there are common reasons to not engage
10 Hijary with it, including fear to appear
unprofessional, posting something wrong or being
misunderstood, or lack of confidence in computer
skills. On the other hand, this does not mean
that social media is not important for them, but
they can overcome those reasons mentioned earlier
to join it, and find out how easy to access it to
take advice, to learn how to use it, and to
take advantage of the multiple benefits.
11 Hijary Social Media In Studying
Currently, education has become very
important for many people from different cultures
than ever before. Studying by using social media
has become very common for many fields around the
world. Learning on demand is becoming a type of
lifestyle in modern society ( MaLoughlin & Lee,
2007 ).
The aim of using social media is to enhance
studying, to provide convenient tools for
interaction, and to find aspects of social
network services that motivate students to
actively participate. Also, it helps students in
12 Hijary their studying and to find a reliable sites to
improve themselves in different fields.
When the students use social, media it allows
them to find content relevant to a certain topic
more easily. For example, when they search for a
specific topic, it will appear as search result
with all other data carrying the same topic. In
which researchers can share writing and general
tips of their career or their studying to enable
students to benefit from their expertise, their
advice, and their suggestions on social
networking sites.
In the simplest case, social media can
provide a high quality of relevant contents to
13 Hijary keep up to date with current research, popular
science and broader issues such as science
policy, funding, publishing, or personal career
development.
Besides, people become more interested in
what they will learn in the university for their
future career. In addition, it may be still hard
for students to choose a good university or
institute or college to graduate from and to
ensure the higher education. Likewise, many
people believe that studying abroad has more
advantages. Because when they study abroad, they
become more independent and more Competitive.
“The results of the study indicated that, indeed,
14 Hijary students in the study abroad program had enhanced
cultural awareness and personal development”
(Gullekson, & Tucker, 2012, P. 164).
Also, social media gives students the
opportunity to improve their education, with
advantages, as it is taking into account the
inability of some students who may need to learn
and improve themselves in their life, education,
or their career and can't join into university,
institute, or college for specific circumstances.
So it gives them the chance to attend into
several educational programs, to help them
develop their level of education, and the
acquisition of another language they may need in
15 Hijary various positions in their career lives. In this
case, they are able to overcome barriers of time
and effort.
That means that they should enhance their
studying by using good educational programs by
social media without traveling, without more
efforts, or even without spending a lot of money.
They have many options to complete their studies
or to development themselves. For instance, they
may confuse to find a good way to enhance
studying and learning. In '' Internet and Higher
Education'' Anastasia K. , Nada D. said that
social media is used in higher education :
16 Hijary "Learners constantly seek information to address
a problem at work, school, or to just satisfy a
curiosity. To do so, they take advantage of
digital and networked technologies not only to
seek information, but also to share information.
Thus, learners should not be considered as
passive information consumers; rather, they are
active co-producers of content. Additionally,
learning in the context of social media has
become highly self-motivated, autonomous, and
informal, as well as an integral part of the
college experience" (McGloughlin & Lee, 2010;
Smith, Salaway, & Caruso, 2009; Solomon & Schrum,
2007). ( 6 )
17 Hijary
Using Social Media at Work
First of all most users of social media have
their own aspects to improve their work in
different ways to create successful businesses,
18 Hijary communicate with their customers, gain widespread
renown to improve marketing, and increase their
gains.
Most companies and institutions using social
media to improve and develop their work by
establishing their websites. To view their
products to show the goal of their work, and to
gain a large number of audiences who are
interested in materials they offer through their
own sites . Moreover, to increase and advertise
their products and the specific offers they have,
as social media helps them to appear in high
quality and gives them a chance to post more
19 Hijary about their activities to the audiences and
followers who are interested.
In fact, social media encourages small
projects to get good chances to gain through
using multiple sites to serve their orientation.
One of them is Instagram, a social program for
viewing images and short video clips that has
widespread use. It helps to display their
products in order to gain profit in an easy way.
On the other hand, they often cannot work outside
their home for several reasons. Therefore, social
media allows them to improve their physical
preparation and acquisition of customers who are
21 Hijary Conclusion
In short, social media has a large number of
users. They are using social media in different
ways in their lives. Particularly, social media
becomes the most popular in media networks. This
paper, presents examples of benefits and
effective use of social media within the society,
how it affects the society and the behavior of
individuals. This fact was indicated in many
aspects in this research; when people use social
media in accurate ways, the content will be
useful for the user, as he/she takes it
advantages and informs others about it.
22 Hijary The research revealed numerous motivating
aspects included in communication with each
other, meeting new people, in studying to get a
higher education and enhance it, and in improving
work by using social networking sites. After
all, the quality of a social networking site
depends on the quality of community within.
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