There are many advantages and disadvantages of social media. One of the advantages are the connections that can be made using social media. Connecting with people all over the world is a luxury that social media allows. Reconnecting with old friends or lost loved ones is also an advantage. Social media is also a great way to search for employment and to connect with potential employers that may not have been available otherwise. Social media also gives one many outlets and ways to launch and advertise a new business. Using one social media site with connections to others allows word of a new business to travel much faster than it would if social media did not exist. There are also disadvantages to social media. The biggest disadvantage is isolation. People can get so engrossed in the world of social media that it becomes an integral part of their lives. Their world revolves around when the next time they will be able to check Facebook, for instance, will be. They make connections with people through social media and forget how to connect with people in the real world. Often times, someone will have a social media life that is much different than their real life. The lies and fabricated stories often cross over into their real life and they forget who they are. It becomes difficult to remember which experiences are part of their actual life and which ones are made up for the social media life. In doing this, the connections they make using social media aren’t real. Knowing these advantages and disadvantages may alter how someone uses social media in both good and bad ways. Someone who knows how much good knowledge of social media can help a new business may decide to start the new business that they have been dreaming about. Knowing how easy it is to connect with employers may help someone to get out of a bad job and look for a better one. Knowing some of the disadvantages may force someone to not go home and check their social media sites, but instead go out and interact with real people. It may also force someone who uses social media in all the wrong ways to examine their actions and try to change themselves. Someone who is unemployed, and possibly depressed, who had been using social media to create a fake lifestyle, may realize the benefits it can offer and give them a whole new outlook on their search for employment. Someone who has experienced the disadvantages of social media may decide to quit using it altogether. They may decide instead to spend time with family and friends, real people, and foster the appropriate types of relationships. Someone who was adopted or has lost contact with family can use social media to help find their lost loved ones. People with illnesses can use social media to announce blood drives or set up a place for people to donate money for medical bills. Social media and all it’s advantages and disadvantages can either help make a life better or make it infinitely worse.