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Name Professor's Name Course Number Date Negative Impacts Social Media in Todays’ Society Introduction In today’s society, social media has increasingly become a popular component that we can’t do away with. Specifically, the teens and young adults seem to be very much preoccupied with the social media. This is probably due to the increased applications and usage demand across the world in communication efficiency, blogging, sharing of knowledge and global interaction irrespective of geographical location. Social media tools commonly used today include; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, google plus, my space, WhatsApp among others. Today, social media cuts across virtually every activity from local and remote business advert to political campaign platform in great states, from healthy behavior and risk factors internet pages to comprehensive online education institutions mandated with information dissemination and award of certifications in various levels. It is due to this growing application and demand that has made nearly 1 billion worldwide users of Facebook alone. About 90% of the one billion users are teens (Abdulahi 10). It is estimated that about 1 in every 7 people uses Facebook. According to Sawyer (27), the numbers of estimated Facebook users were about 500 million by the year 2010. This corresponds to 1 in every 14 users of the 6.8 billion people in the world. From the two studies, it is evident that from 2010 to 2014, the number of people using social media (through Facebook) had doubled. Suggestively, the resulting consequences similarly doubled during the same time interval. Despite the associated benefits that have consequently led to the
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