Advantages and disadvantages of social media We all had been fully swallowed up by social media many years ago... It has been started about 10 years ago for me. The distribution of internet grew up from year to year. I had dial-up internet connection on my first PC, it was expensive and so slow. I was using it mostly for my school homework, but it was the first time when I tried to chat with others via chat-sites and forums. Chats and forms were the very first prototype of social media. it wasn't a problem because it was really hard to stack on the chat or form for a long time. We have internet everywhere now, on your PC, phone, TV, watch, it didn't integrate on your mind, but I think it will be soon... It's good to have all the people knowledge always near you, but How we want to use and how are we use it now? Are you prefer hiking with your friends or Instagram surfing? Social activity is good and interesting, but it's not a real life, you can't get so much pleasure from it, instead of real activity, like fishing with your father or playing football with your old friend. You can be involved in some your friend's events via photos, videos, but it's not real again. In another side social media is a good way to learn all that you want via YouTube, for example. I get a lot of information for my English, for my work as a developer. I'm always in touch with my friends, who lives far from me now or with my parents when I'm traveling. I have been involved in 21-day healthy food period on Instagram now, and I like it :) I'm using Twitter to get al the news from different people who're the great developers. So it depends on you, social media is developed to waste your time, but you can control it, just try to do it. I don't want to replace the real life by internet social life. I'm trying to limit my time with social media to save time for my family, for my friends, for my real life.