Impacts of Social Networks

Impacts of Social Networks: A Comprehensive Study on Positive and Negative Effects on Different Age Groups in a Society

Social Networks have undergone an intense evolution in recent years. Such networks provide an extremely suitable space to instantly share text or multimedia information between two persons or their neighbours in the social graph. Social networks give us a powerful reflection of the structure and dynamics of the society of the 21st century and the interaction of the Internet generation with both technology and various other people. Indeed, the dramatic growth of social multimedia and user generated content is revolutionising all phases of the content value chain including production, processing, distribution and consumption. It also originated and brought to the multimedia sector a new underestimated and now critical aspect of science and technology: social interaction and networking. The social area networks have both merits and demerits. In the present paper, the authors have tried to explore both merits and demerits of social networks.

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