Good morning, everyone. Let me start by Introducing myself. I’m Danoo Khongyoo and you can call me “Danny”. My major is Economics. I have a question for you. Suppose you wanted to communicate with someone who lives far away from you, what would be the best way to do it? Of course, it’s through social network! Today, I’m going to talk to you about social networking. I’ve divided my presentation into 3 parts. First, I’ll start by describing what are social networks. Then I’ll move on to the advantages of social networking. Finally, I’d like to talk about its disadvantages. Let’s get started.
I’d like to start by defining social networks. Nowadays, social network comes into our daily life more and more, many people in the world use social network in their everyday lives but, do you know what social network means? OK, I’ll tell you, Social network is a website that brings people together to talk, share ideas and interests, or make new friends. To give you an example of social network service.
Have a look at this chart. As you can see, this bar chart show the most popular social network service in 2015. The vertical axis shows amount of user in million and the horizontal axis shows name of social network service. You’ll see that the most popular social network is without a doubt, Facebook, which has about 1.5 billion users and it means that about 20% of the world’s population are Facebook users. That’s all I want to say about defining a social network.
Let’s move onto the advantages of social networking. We get a lot of benefits from using social networks because it greatly helps in sharing information more quickly. Moreover, people can communicate easily and save time. It like a small area of knowledge, because we can comment, discuss and exchange knowledge or ask questions. For people who are interested or have any questions, they can help to answer each other. This also makes the world more accessible as well because it creates one big society. Another advantage is that it can help generate revenue, for example, monetize your YouTube so that users can make money by joining the YouTube Partner Program and you can earn money from your own channels. Although the social network is a useful technology, but if we used incorrectly it can lead to dangerous.
So next, let’s talk about disadvantages of social networking. Social Network is a wide society. If a user lacks good judgment, the user might try and scam through Internet or meet each other for the bad guys. We may tend to use social networking till midnight or even later which can lead to health problems. It may have negative effect on both mental and physical health of individual. It’s also easy way to infringe copyright because social network service as a media publishing of our work and photo. Thus people can view and comment. This brings me to the end of this part.
To summarize briefly, today I’ve told you that social network is a website that brings people together to talk easily and Social network have both advantages and disadvantages. It brings people together and erases the distance, but on the other hand, people that are actually physically close to you become further away. It's depend on how we use it. Use it the right way and it’s an enriching tool, but use it the wrong way and your life will suffer more than you will gain from it. Finally, don't use too much social network to the point where you forget to care for the people around you. Thank you very much for listening and have a nice day.