Social media is a combination of websites, platforms, and applications that enable users to create and share content, drop vital information that needs to round or participate in social networking. The ability to share amazing and exotic photos, posterity, wide opinions and glamorous events, etc in real-time has transformed the way we live and run our daily activities, also, the way we do business.

### The Good Effects of Social Media (SM)

• SM helps you to know more things outside your knowledge.

• SM widens and enhances your intellect on how to behave outdoors and indoors.

• SM gives the latest updates or information on what happens recently and also spread the news.

• SM reminds us of certain events that are meant to occur at a specific time.

• SM helps us in advertising our business and products and also lets us connect with different people from different places.

• SM also helps us know the ways to curb the spread of Coronavirus and prevent it.

### ​The Bad Effects of Social Media (SM)

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• SM also can spread false rumors about an organization or the government and preventing the actual truth to be exposed.

• SM exposes us to desire unlimited wants or needs with little resources.

• SM induces immorality and desperation in one way or another.

• SM makes an individual unworthy of themselves.

• SM causes us to imitate the celebrities and their luxurious life, therefore, sending us to compete with what we have been contented with.

• SM makes one spending too much time on it thereby giving rise to one disconnecting from their loved ones making them less valuable.

• SM if not strongly controlled can lead to a break up in marriage and relationships.

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