Role of social media in my life

SOCIAL media is now an important part of many people’s lives. In fact, a study suggests that half of the children aged between eight and 17 years have social networking profiles like Facebook, Instagram etc. Not only the young people, but people of all ages, and all profession are using social networking sites as a means of communication. Social media, as per recently observed fact, is playing an important part of any platform. It plays a dominant role in our day to day life. It creates a wide range of impact on people when it is shared on social media. To stay in touch with your loved ones is the most beautiful thing in our lives and social media has done its influence in doing this thing positively.

Instant messaging, images, status updates, image- sharing, video- sharing are few of the major elements that play a role in the recognition of social media.

It is not only connecting your loved ones, but also it provides a wide range of information to the people.

Non- governmental organisations have started websites like ‘ change. org’, where people or media start campaigns to derive solutions.

They can be shared on social media like Facebook, Twitter etc., where the people who are in favour of the petition are supposed t o sign and encourage the campaign.

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Below i s how social media has impacted some of our readers;

BY MMELI MKHWANAZI