निबंध स्पर्धा (वयोगट १३ ते १८) - द्वितीय क्रमांक - कुमारी विधी संतोष राक्षे.

Social media: a boon or bane
Social media is a huge platform containing various services like Youtube,
instagram, twitter, etc. Like anything in this world, social media also has its pros
and cons. To list the pros, there will be many whether it be communication or
expressing creativity. Social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest,
etc. are used for uploading ideas, pictures to show and inspire others. The pros of
these platforms would be that they let each and everyone to express their ideas to
the world. There are many people who have become famous because of these
platforms like makeup artist James Charles, magician Zach king and many more.
Now for the cons, many of these platforms have been hacked and hackers have
been taking the information of accounts and misusing the pictures and videos that
are posted. Many children have also been cyber bullied by these hackers. But still
many of these websites are safe and secure. Let's move back to pros, take up a
situation in which you have to encourage people to stop global warming, to do so
you have to use your Twitter and Instagram accounts. A few days later many
people having been taking steps to stop global warming and you have a very
positive response. Let’s take another situation, you want to make a special
breakfast for your mother and you look up on Youtube for ideas and make a very
special breakfast and your mom loves it. Now let's take a similar situation, you
want to make the same special breakfast for your dad and without even trying to
make something on your own creative ideas you just check something out on
Pinterest and copy what an original creator has done. Now that would be copying.
Now for another boon of social media you can get inspired by many creators on
this huge platform and become one too and inspire others. But some platforms like
Twitch, a gaming media, many children and even adults spend hours sitting on
their phones l watching livestreams of people playing games and get nothing
productive out of it. Many children don't go outside in fresh air to play and don't
even enjoy reading paperback books because they read ebooks on a screen. But
getting back to pros, you can meet so many different people like your old friends
from school, etc., to recommunicate with them. But another bane would be that

supposedly there is a person near a waterfall who has slipped off the rocks nearby
and fallen and is badly injured. Instead of calling the ambulance or even going
there to help the person, people have been taking pictures and videos of that
struggling and posting it on YouTube, Twitter etc. These act just shows that
humanity is no more on the earth. But a really good pro would be that creator on
the YouTube like Liza Koshi etc. are expressing their stress and anxiety with their
subscribers to make themselves more happy. Also many YouTubers have been
taking a break from posting for their suggested period of time to be more mentally
and physically happy. To list these would be so many more but I think that social
media is a boon and bane on the public. But to compare, these would not be any more or less of a boon or bane. I think that it is completely your choice of weather to be active on any social media platform or not.