One of the many benefits of social media data which was mentioned in the text (What you can, can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t do with social media\u00a0data) by Rachael taxman was how it made making specific studies and statistics much more manageable. What used to take years and sometimes decades can now be done in days and with a fraction of the number of workers. The benefits of social media data are more; it turned out that because of physiological reasons the data collected from social media platforms is more honest and accurate. That is because the information is obtained without any direct contact. Turning to the things that you cannot get from social media data, in the text it mentions that the data collected from the social media will defiantly be biased since you are just examining a particular group and not the whole population of a place. Also, you do not know about whom you are collecting data from. Moreover, there are certain privacy agreements that you have to abide that restricts you. And in the end of course it talked about the ethical aspect of collecting data from social media sites which were mainly about making sure that who ever\u2019s data was taken it should be under all the ethical rules.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think I agree with HC opinion on how \u201cthis should just be another tool researchers use, and not replace all forms of data collection.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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