[IELTS] Using social media on daily basis

IELTS Writing Task 2

(Question)

People are using social media on daily basis to keep in touch with others and for news updates.

Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Planning:

Advantages

1. Can share news rapidly to numerous people in a convenient way.
2. Not real friends no updates about them
3. Sell something to
4. Advertisement

Disadvantages

1. Do not know whether the source is credible or not
2. Wasting vast amount of time in using social media
3. Superficiality, psychological problem, envious.

These days, social media is prevalent among people in order to get to know people’s life and learn about current affairs. I believe that the disadvantages are more significant than the advantages.

To begin with, there are several reasons why spending time on social media is unfavorable. First and foremost, the credibility of the source on social media is relatively at a lower level compared to the source on news from official broadcasting station. It is because all of people have free access to social media via Internet. In addition, not requiring any qualification but just registering an account allows users to write posts freely and share them rapidly even if the contents of them are false. For example, such as Facebook, one of the famous social media with open platform, that is being accessible to everyone,  does not demand reliability of information when users post it.

Secondly, it is commonly observed that the vast amount of time can be wasted by using social media. Obviously, a variety of entertainments are contained on social media mainly as a form of video, so that the possibility of spending time on videos is significantly high. From this reason, it impedes scheduled tasks like delaying the appointed time with an important person or skipping assignments, which results in inducing inefficient life. Last but not least, due to the fabulous experiences of friends, one can suffer self-pity about not having those activities in their life. From others’ superficial and envious experiences, people are vulnerable to have mental problems such as psychology of competition that people are striving to have better experience than others.

In conclusion, all things considered, I entirely believe that avoiding social media is recommendable as it deteriorates people’s quality of life and misleads them from inauthentic news sources.