Social-economic impacts of social media

                    

 There is not any more important start-up nowadays than social networking. Social media asserted its influence on business, society, entertainment and on much more elements of our lives. However, is this phenomenon worthy for us? 

 It is true that social networks usually have cases of fake profiles, fake news, it can be unhealthy, and it has the ability to pursue adolescents to go into a hyper-connected life. Nevertheless, social media has a huge potential on technology advancements, resolving issues, making stronger ties, aiding people who are fighting with themselves, and the most important, modifying thoughts and teaching some people how to be empathic.

 In a society, the function of social media is nothing more than to help people make acquaintances and stronger bonds, teenagers need to be aided by someone who does not get lost in themselves and have tools to help them.

 You can not disagree that social networks raise the economy to another level, people can buy and sell more easily, and make the economy stronger. Even though these are most notable features of the economic impacts of social media, there are some that need to get more notability, it is called crowdfunding, social networks made it much more easier, philanthropic entrepreneurs and companies had a harder time in the past, but today the repercussion of some crowdfunding objectives on internet made the income of venture capital very big, and made it easy to contact backers, and make a desire become true. 

 Summarizing, social media impacted a lot in the last years, both in economy and society, we need to make these tolls even more practice to utilize, and make a good use of it, it is on our hands, society just have to evolve it more and more, and fortunately we are able to do it. 

Felipe Pereira.