The first advantage is that social media offers opportunities for professional online networking, and it is a valuable business tool. LinkedIn for instance, it is a tool that allows users to put an online resume and their CVs on their profile so that they stay connected with business people and get job offers by only looking through their profile. Moreover, instead of going through your business cards and remembering each person, you can easily look up their names and check their profile.
Furthermore, new media is accessible anytime and anywhere. It is considered as a news tool, you can check the news as soon as it happens and not have to wait for the morning newspaper every day. Twitter, Facebook, and online news serve in publishing the news in the same minute or even the same second. You can also spread news that happened around you and share it with friends and other users, while in newspaper or TV you cannot do so.
Another advantage is that you can always stay connected with people all over the world. Old friends, families who live far away, or colleagues. It has been easier for people to communicate with others, sharing the moments, sending pictures and videos through the social networking. This has made long distances between people, shorter.
On the other hand, new media is not always a reliable source to get news from, because everyone can be posting wrong news just for fun and grabbing attention. There is no publisher to check whether the information written is wrong or right unlike newspaper, TV, or radio there is always an editor and publisher that insures that information published to the audience is right.
Although social media has connected us with people all over the world, but this has affected our face to face communication. Now a days, people are preferring communicating through social media rather than face to face and this have increased the online relationships. Wherever you go now, you can realize how people are sitting together physically, but using their smart -phones communicating with others, so eventually they are mentally not together. This will affect our lives in a way or another, for instance, in business life you will not be able and not have the experience to communicate with employers and consumers and this will obviously affect your job.
Moreover, it has hacked our lives and privacy. For example, now a days through the social media you can know details about a person just by entering their account in any application. Seeing pictures where he/she has went, what have they done, and etc. You can't anymore have privacy like before and have your own life, you always feel like you to share it with others.
In conclusion, people are easily engaging with technology and you can rarely find people who do not use any type of the new media. It is been a trend, a useful one, and will always be, however people should always know that everything needs limits and so the new media.