What are cons of social networking sites?

Answer 1

When using any social media platform, take responsibility for your own safety and never join a group just because it is trendy or all your friends are doing it. In evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of social networking, it's best to err on the side of caution and protect your privacy. Be careful with what you post and treat others as if you were in a face-to-face situation.

Disadvantages of Social Networking:

1. Lacks Emotional Connection

2. Backlash

3. Decreases Face-to-Face Communication Skills

4. Conveys Inauthentic Expression of Feelings

5. Diminishes Understanding and Thoughtfulness

6. Cyberbullying and Crimes Against Children

7. Facilitates Laziness

8. Creates a Skewed Self-Image

9. Reduces Family Closeness

10. Fake News

11. Causes Distractions

Answer 2

Among other things: invasion of privacy, farming of users' data to advertisers, potential to lure child predators and other criminals, wasting time (often why schools/governments block access)

Here's a fairly good list of criticisms leveled against Facebook:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

Answer 3

One disadvantages of Social Media includes the difficulty to do damage control when you have to do with it (social media) and your name or the name of your property can be soaked in a few hours.

There are as many gains that come with social media and it is undeniable. But what many forget is the negative side, the disadvantages.

Answer 4

1. Your exposing yourself

2. People are seeing what you are doing.

3. Cyber stalking/bullying

4. You may post info that you didn't mean to

5. Easier to be misunderstood

Answer 5

Social networking sites allow people to become connected with potentially an ever expanding group of people, many or most of whom they have never actually met and may never meet. This can be very time consuming, and time spent on virtual friendship can detract from time spent on actual friendship. Networking can easily become too much of a good thing. In addition, people sometimes make errors by revealing too much of themselves, and information or photographs can fall into the hands of people for whom it was not intended. Potential employers, for example, may review a candidate's facebook page, and sometimes do not like what they find.

Answer 6

Your computer will be more vulnerable to hacking, malware and virus since unknown websites abound on social network sites.

Answer 7

their are many disadvantages such as Bullying, Perverts and Pedos and also organised crime. I wrote an essay about it for english

Answer 8

students neglect their studies