The Influence of Social Networks on Human Society

TL;DR

This paper reviews the origin and impact of social networks, especially online social media, highlighting their societal effects and proposing data science as a tool to address challenges and enable future progress.

Contribution

It provides an overview of social networks' evolution and discusses how data science can be used to tackle challenges and advance social media applications.

Findings

OSNs have significant positive societal impacts.

OSNs also pose negative societal challenges.

Data science offers solutions for social media challenges.

Abstract

This report gives a brief overview of the origin of social networks and their most popular manifestation in the modern era - the Online Social Networks (OSNs) or social media. It further discusses the positive and negative implications of OSNs on human society. The coupling of Data Science and social media (social media mining) is then put forward as a powerful tool to overcome the current challenges and pave the path for futuristic advancements