Thank you krub K. Piranun. Here is what she posted.
Advantages of social media:
It enables people to exchange info that they are mutually interested in. It serves as a small information warehouse where we can express our opinions and our viewpoints, exchange information, or ask questions about various topics to people who are interested in the same topics or know the topics to provide answers, i.e. Pantip.com.
It is economic, saves money in communicating with other people, convenient, quick, and provide easy access to info.
It serves as a conduit for showing our work such as writing, pictures, video. It allows other people to view our work and comment on them.
We can use it to deliver messages, and for public relation.
It can help to release stress for people who want to chat with friends about pleasant topics or to entertain ourselves.
It builds good relationship between friends.
Disadvantages of social media:
Some websites may disclose too much personal information. If users are not careful when providing information, malevolent persons could use the information negatively or violate privacy right of the person.
Social network is a wide spread society. If the users are naive or lack of common sense, they can be deceived.
It can be a channel for right violation, stealing other people’s work, or false claim or imposter because social media is a channel that allows us to share our work, our pictures with others and allows them to comment on them.
The information that members have to fill in is difficult to verify. This can be problematic for websites that have age stipulation. Or it can be deceived by people who do not really exist.
People who use social media too much or spend many hours in front of a computer may ruin their eyesights. If a person is too occupied with social media, his/her job or education could be badly affected.
Thus researchers have to be very careful in using social media to conduct research because social media is comparable to a two-sided coin – positive and negative.
