Essay on Social Media   [In titles always capitalize the first, last, and all important words. Do not capitalize a, an, the, in, to, etc. You can use the following web page to paste a title in and see proper capitalization: 'https://capitalizemytitle.com'.] 

In this day and age people all over the world spend a lot of their time surfing the internet and interacting with each other using different social networks such as Facebook, Telegram or WhatsApp. There are certain dangers in uploading information about yourself and your personal data in such websites. This essay supports the opinion that social media have much more advantages that disadvantages. The essay will first look at how social media helps people to find friends or even partners for relationships. Then the essay explains that social media nowadays is very important because this is a very good platform for trustworthy news. After that the essay briefly mentions minuses of social media.

Social media allows people from different parts of the world to interact with each other without any difficulties and to start new relationships. It is much easier to find new friends in the internet then to do so in real life. The reasons are the following. Firstly it's simpler to write messages to an unfamiliar person than to talk with one. Secondly there are a lot of so-called "groups" in social networks where people with the same interests gather, chat and get acquainted. For instance I have become acquainted with one of my best friends in the social network called "Vkontakte" or just "VK" that is very popular in Russian.

Today, social media becomes indispensable in the area of news and social opinion. I believe that lots of people nowadays retrieve all the information about what is happening in the world from their news feeds in Facebook. Almost every newspaper has it's own website or even group in Facebook. For example, one of the most democratic and honest newspapers in Russia, called "Meduza", is fully online: it has a website and a group in "Vkontakte" where news and different interviews are published. I am sure that to be aware of what is happening in Russia it's enough to read Meduza's feed in "VK".

The main disadvantage of social media is the full insecurity of the user's data.
I believe that this problem will be partly solved by inventing a reliable information security system.

Overall, the benefits of social media overbalance the disadvantages because they help a lot people to build new relations and to be aware of what is happening in the world.