Social Media- Facebook & Twitter -A Threat for Youth and Organization
Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter etc..,have reincarnated itself as new avatar in the digital communication era, the world is now more connected which is rampant across the globe. Its penetration is humongous and astonishing to everyone as its being used from all corners of the world, it has become an integral part of human life. It has been used extensively for all the events of a human life cycle and it's palpable on this medium through status updates from users.
Its a fascinating tool for the modern age for all classes of society. Facebook seems to be undisputed King in the Social Media industry toppling every other competitor. Although, it offers multitude of benefits for the users, it isn't free from the pitfalls affecting millions of users.
Facebook has become so inseparable from the users that it has changed their entire life style Dynamics.People would use them to upload their pictures, make comments on their friends status lines, and its a relentless process day in and day out ignoring their productive time. It has been observed that some users have become a victim of addiction and there have been efforts to educate people about its perils and implementation of de-addiction programmes.
Its a fascinating tool for the modern age for all classes of society. Facebook seems to be undisputed King in the Social Media industry toppling every other competitor. Although, it offers multitude of benefits for the users, it isn't free from the pitfalls affecting millions of users.
Facebook has become so inseparable from the users that it has changed their entire life style Dynamics.People would use them to upload their pictures, make comments on their friends status lines, and its a relentless process day in and day out ignoring their productive time. It has been observed that some users have become a victim of addiction and there have been efforts to educate people about its perils and implementation of de-addiction programmes.
It has immensely impacted the school kids and they aren't spending enough time for their education. Their parents are apprehensive about their children as they seem to be becoming reckless in their approach towards their life.
Social Media is being used for personal attack on others which is against cyber laws, trying to polarize people and host of immoral activities. Social Media can potentially become a weapon for wrong doers to communicate their message.
The Employer provides resources such as internet as a business requirement, but employees are abusing it for their personal satiation using Facebook and other social networking portals. Its excruciating to see the employees tend to log-in to social networking tools as opposed to read their emails at the very outset and do not respond to important business communication emails. They fail to prioritize their schedule of tasks ,thus, disrupting their entire workflow, creating chaos for themselves and organization. It has been observed that the productivity and efficiency of the employees have plummeted as individuals and collectively as an organization, thus, exacerbating the cost to the organization as they may probably have to expend for new resources . Besides, It may lead to disastrous impact on the client services.
The organization must have stringent policies on using the internet and must constantly be tracking the perpetrators of misuse of the resources. It must take disciplinary actions, need to educate and enlighten the employees about aftermath of their wrong deeds to themselves as well as to the organization.
Facebook or other social media isn't the objective of an organization, an organization doesn't endure the cost to pay for its employees to allow them to use social Media channels. Every employee must think the organization thrives because of the productive work of employees, if employees fail to recognize this, there would be an imminent threat for an organization doom's day when its under cut-throat competition.
There must be a conscious and concerted pledge from the employees not to misuse the company's resources as it will be help the organization to get the return on investment. This would help the organization to head into the right direction to achieve its objectives.
Social Media is being used for personal attack on others which is against cyber laws, trying to polarize people and host of immoral activities. Social Media can potentially become a weapon for wrong doers to communicate their message.
The Employer provides resources such as internet as a business requirement, but employees are abusing it for their personal satiation using Facebook and other social networking portals. Its excruciating to see the employees tend to log-in to social networking tools as opposed to read their emails at the very outset and do not respond to important business communication emails. They fail to prioritize their schedule of tasks ,thus, disrupting their entire workflow, creating chaos for themselves and organization. It has been observed that the productivity and efficiency of the employees have plummeted as individuals and collectively as an organization, thus, exacerbating the cost to the organization as they may probably have to expend for new resources . Besides, It may lead to disastrous impact on the client services.
The organization must have stringent policies on using the internet and must constantly be tracking the perpetrators of misuse of the resources. It must take disciplinary actions, need to educate and enlighten the employees about aftermath of their wrong deeds to themselves as well as to the organization.
Facebook or other social media isn't the objective of an organization, an organization doesn't endure the cost to pay for its employees to allow them to use social Media channels. Every employee must think the organization thrives because of the productive work of employees, if employees fail to recognize this, there would be an imminent threat for an organization doom's day when its under cut-throat competition.
There must be a conscious and concerted pledge from the employees not to misuse the company's resources as it will be help the organization to get the return on investment. This would help the organization to head into the right direction to achieve its objectives.
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