Steemit Engagement Challenge / S13W2 - "Protect your Mental Health from Social media Dangers"
Hi steemit family,
I am delighted to participate in another week season 13 week 2 engagement challenge hosting in the healthy steem community. This contest come up at the right time and I hope every participants will share meaningful thoughts.
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Social media is the social network where different people around the world connect with their friends and family with the aim to share idea and information. Social media include Facebook, X platform, Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Many users sign in to their social media account to publish latest information on what is currently happen in the whole world.
Big company in Nigeria like Dangote, Golden penny, flour mills of Nigeria etc. They make use of social media platform to promote their products to a large number of people (consumers).
I log in to my social media account on a daily basis, in facts I spent more than 2 hours to read different stories published by the active users, I comment and like any post or picture I find interesting.
Social media technology is very effective that update their users on any issue. Here are the five (5) negative impact of social media in our life.
• Misinformation
• Addiction
• Lack of Privacy
• Sleep problems
• Isolation
• Misinformation: In today world many users use the opportunity of social media handle such as Facebook and Twitter to spread fake news, dissemination of fake news have lead to chaos or violence in different countries of the world.
• Addiction: Many users have already used to social platform to the extent that they do not have time to plan or monitoring their own life. So they spend most of their whole day on Facebook, users who stay much longer on social platform forget how to set their target goals.
• Lack of Privacy: Their is no room for privacy and all your data is not safe as well. Once you post on Facebook all your information expose to third party and people begin to know all your achievement you have build for a long time.
• Sleep problems: Users who use social platform frequently experience difficult in sleeping, poor sleeping habits affect our mental health and if care is not taken it may result to other psychological disorder.
• Isolation: Many people prefer to stay alone, get connect with new people which lead to social isolation. This is bad idea because such people will not participate in any social activities.
• Be motivated: We should not compare our self to other people lifestyle when they post their achievement in social platform instead for us to be happy and work hard toward achieving our own gaols. We must continue to read good post that will encourage us to do more good in the society.
• Limit users usage: Users must try as much as possible to limit their amount of time they are likely to spend in social media platform, spending a lot of time on social media can result into unproductivity.
• Promote social justice through social media: Youths between the age of 16 and 30 effectively use social media to fight injustice, every citizens have the right to change society for better in which citizens have the equal right to freedom of speech.
• Connect responsibly: Good users influence our life positively, social media create community where different from around the world meet to discuss some major issue that's affecting our environment.
• Taking break from social media: staying longer on social media affect our psychological thinking. So users must take a break so that our mind can be relax from social media activities.
Conclusion
One of the advantage of social media is that it helps us to exchange some conversation with friends, family and new people in order to create mutual relationship. I would like to invite @emmy01, @ridwant and @josepha to participate.
Best regards
@akareen
Misinformation is really common in social media today, many people are just there to break the hearts of good people by giving out personal false information of someone in other to make the person's life miserable, and I suggest that such people should be banned from this the social media.
I'm social media, everything about you is broadly open to everyone to see, so I suggest in order for people to protect themselves from all these, they have to learn to keep some if the things about them private so that other people can not learn about their lifestyle and use it to intimidate them.
Truely, social isolation is reakky common, there are people who only like to make friends in the social wirkd than in real life, and at the end they will get scammed by someone they think that are good people, it's not that we should not make friends in the social media, but we should have limits of our friendship.
I like this point, we should learn to be contented with what we have, we don't need to the comparing our lifestyle with the things we see in the social media, we should learn to overlook those lifestyles and focus on our own, because not everything we see out there is real.
Social media provide users with information they needs most in our life, most of this information helps us to currently understand the situation that's happening in our environment. Thanks for your comment
I think that this is one of the positive ways the social media is helping us, also their are bad ways that it is affecting us, thanks for the reply.
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Hi @akareen, indeed one of the big negative points is isolation, that is why we must be aware when we immerse ourselves in social networks.
Currently, I do not enter the networks as before, I dedicate myself to write my publications and search for information if necessary, but many people only think about the networks and spend the day on that.
I loved your publication, greetings, and success.
Thanks for this wonderful comment.
Amigo @akareen en algo difiero a tu opinión las redes no son desinformativa al contrario en ella puedes tener hasta mas informacion de lo normal, sin embargo los niños mas grandes al igual que los chicos debe tener un control llamemosla control.
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Yes you are right , We should not compare our self to other people lifestyle which they shows on social platform instead for us to be happy and work hard toward achieving our own gaols.
We should beware because some people lives fake life on social media, we should not let them influence us in a bad way. We should have good determination and be focus if we want to achieve good thing in life. Thanks for your comment