The pros and cons of social media in today's society (part 1) Nowadays social media takes an integral part of the modern world, and it is hard to overrate its significant role. Of course, there are many advantages and drawbacks of using social media in our daily life. In my point of view, social media might give us numerous pros so that it would be silly not to use them. The main advantages are listed down below. The biggest and the most important advantage of social media is connectivity, the opportunity to connect with anyone and anywhere, if you have an internet connection. For example, today we don't need to travel in order to speak with a foreiner and we’re able to do it without much effort sitting on the chair, learning or sharing our opinion or thoughts. Another crucial benefit is the ability to be connected with your beloved, your family, so it becomes much easier to live in a distance with them, because we don’t feel this distance when we’re able to interact with them anytime. Another important advantage is promoting your services or goods using social media. Local businesses can save a lot of money by not buying expensive advertisements on TV and contact their audience without intermediaries. As well as blogers, for whom social media became a place to work and earn money by giving people interesting or useful content. Social media actually is a reason for the appearance of a new stratum of people - videoblogers. Another big advantage which I can’t miss is using social media for being updated on actual news. While news on TV and web sites are biased, using social media can show us real facts and existent situations without interpretation. Thanks a lot!