THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON EDUCATION AND SOCIETY

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to assess the impact of social media on education and society. Social media is a platform for people to discuss their issues and opinion. Before knowing the aspects of social media people must have to know what is social media? Social media are computer mediated technologies that facilitates the creation and sharing of information, ideas, opinion, issues, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and network. Social media services are web-based services which can be used via Desktop computers, laptops, and mobile (Smartphone) & tablet computers. Using these services people can have highly interactive platform where they can also share images, videos, information’s and even more with each other through a particular network. This paper presents the impact of social media on education and society with its positive and negative effect.