Have Practice in Writing
Write a for-and-against essay about pros and cons of social networking.
- state the topic in your introduction
- define points for social networking
- define points against social networking
- sum up the advantages and disadvantages of social networking
Student’s essay Pros and Cons of Social Networking
Hi, I’m Dasha and I am a user of some social networks as well as my friends and relatives. Every morning we check our social networks to watch news, to communicate with friends and family, to search for information, follow other people’s lives. During our day we use them for work and for personal needs. Social networking is very useful in today’s world, but it has some disadvantages.
I want to begin with some positive sides and speak about the advantages of social networking. In the first place, social media is the best way to communicate with people online. You can chat with your family and friends, find new friends from other countries and develop foreign language skills.
Secondly, you can start your own business. A lot of people earn money in social networks. Some people have online shops. The others share their opinions on different topics for a target audience and get money from advertisers. In addition, there are bloggers, who earn money by recommending products and that helps the owners of online shops to increase their income.
Thirdly, you can have a new hobby and change your lifestyle. There are a lot of people on YouTube, who are motivating others to keep to a healthy diet and do sports. Having an interesting hobby is important too. Watching videos about make up, fashion, photography, traveling or something else will be motivating for you to find new interests and make your life more exciting because having an interesting hobby is important for a good and happy life.
Now I’d like to say some words about disadvantages of social networks. The worst disadvantage of social networking is
cyber bullying. Every year a lot of teenagers become victims of hatered. People write bad comments about their appearance. As a result, teens don’t love themselves. In the worst case they commit suicide.
Moreover, people can know everything about you: where you live, work, etc. and can rob your house easily. So, you need to be careful and post right information about yourself to be in safe.
Next, there are billions of fake accounts and fake news on various social networking sites.
In conclusion, I’d like to say, that in my point of view, social networking has more advantages, than disadvantages. You can communicate, find new friends and hobbies, develop skills. If you ignore bad comments, don’t post too much information about yourself and have a difficult password, you won’t beome a victim of cyber bullies.
Nowadays social networking is a very popular way of communication. Social networking has changed our life. Now we can do things, that our ancesterscouldn’t imagine. We have the possibilities of speaking with the family at a long distance. We can study at home, learn new languages with e-friends at home, watch films at home etc. That’s why many people use them. Social networking is very useful in today’s world, but it has some advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages
Firstly, in my opinion the main argument for social networking sites is communication. You can chat with your family or friends in different parts of the world. Secondly, you can start your business online and have contacts with your customers which is helpful for your business promotion and marketing. Thirdly, you can share your pictures, lifehacks, impressions with other people on account. Furthermore, you can learn a lot which helps your self-education.
Disadvantages
But there are also some negative things in social media. So I’d like to say some words about disadvantages. The most important drawback for me is – cyberbullying. In my opinion it’s a very big problem. Some users of social networking sites like hating other people just for fun. And it’s very bad, because thereafter, people may have mental health problems and have depression symptoms. One more negative aspect of social networking is very bad security, so your account can be stolen or broken. What is kore there is lots of fake information.
As far as I am concerned, I can say that social networking is amazing but you should be more careful while using such sites.