Steemit Engagement Challenge / S13W2 - "Protect your Mental Health from Social media Dangers"
Hello fellow steemians
How are you all doing? I hope you all are doing fine. I am here with you all once more to share my ideas and thoughts to fellow steemians and members of this noble community and I also believe article will make unimaginable impact in our lives. I am no doubt glad to be a participant of this contest titled protect your mental health from social media dangers and also thankful to this community for hosting this wonderful contest as it will help shape the lives of steemians.
Social media to many is a center of their life. It is an end, but to me it is a means to an end. I perceive the social media as a source of information but I am very careful in the assessment and the verification of the information I consume. If you want to live a normal life in this modern world inundated with information, you need to stand aloof and view this influx of excess news item with a lot of practicality.
I am not a social media freak, and I use all the will power in my disposal to instill self discipline so as not to allow myself get entangled in this global media craze called social media. This narrow road I have created for myself or self disciplinary measures affords me the ability to control social media and not the social media to have control over me.
The social media, is a clear indication that man is a social animal and never in history have mankind been able to create inter-social connectivity than in this era, but how deep and healthy is these social relations that man have created for himself which is wholly technologically driven? I discovered that most of the aspects of these social relations are shallow and are rubbing of our humanity.
Man in my opinion, is no longer relatively communicating with his fellow human on a human level but but through technological appliances and devices. For instance, a person can easily laugh mechanically over a joke on the social media than laugh over a joke that came up naturally in a conversation through human interaction.
The social media is rubbing man especially the youth of their God living instinct to reach out to one another especially in the area of making friends , a good example, is the clear inadequacy exhibited by boys over their relationship with the opposite sex, a young man cannot effectively relate with a lady, Cowardice is now a virtue, all thanks to social media. In order to live a normal life that is not detected by the fantasy of the force reality of the social media, I have put in place a few guiding principles to help me.
In every twenty-four hours, I have a time table which I follow with religious regularity and I make sure I do not deviate from this set of activities I have mapped out for myself. Every activity is pursued with a tenacity that excludes any other activity. Thankfully, I am a teacher by profession and why teaching there is no way you could engage in the social media and as a result I dedicate two hours every day in the social media and I use it bearing in mind that the social media is a means to an end and not an end in itself . Self discipline is the best kind of discipline, nobody can do it except yourself. You define who you are and do not allow anything or the social media to define you for yourself.
There are many ways social media can have negative impact in our life and that of our family they include:
over reliance on the real or imagined happiness one thinks he can draw from total engagement in the social media. This anormally can lead to exclusion or a sense of isolation from one's immediate family member creating a communication vaccum which ultimately results in strained and broken relationship. For instance, a young man comes home,locks himself up, and buries himself in God-knows-what in the social media.
One major problem social media can cause in our lives and that of our families is disappointment and unrealized expectations. A tipical scenario that has played out countless times are cases people meeting themselves on the social media creating false personalities for each other and later realizing to their shagreen that they are not really made for each other or that one has a physical deformity which the other cannot stand or tolerate.
- Another ugly scenario social media can bring into the family is family crisis. An innocent impressionable young girl is decieved by a dubious young man. This girl relying on this falsehood makes physical contact with this fraudulent young man which may result to an ugly situation of unwanted pregnancy.
- Fraud :Another negative social media can have negative impact on us is the use of using fake identity to take money from people. The crime of fraud is rising at a very high rate as our youths who are supposed to be working are using social media platforms to commit this crime.
- Misplaced priority: This is another problem that can have effect on our lives. People who are surrounded with obligations and responsibilities, waste their time on the social media, chatting and having fun while leaving his duties behind and undone.
I have at least five rules for individuals and families on how we can control social media:
- Phones should be released to children when it is necessary, parents should monitor and also become committed in monitoring the way their children use the social media.
- Enlightenment programs and seminars should be held to educate people on the drawbacks social media can cause in their lives and that of their families.
- Underaged children should not have access to Internet enabled devices untill they are matured and up to age .
Relationships should be maintained and sustained on the human level and not depending devices.
Families should relate with each other and spend quality time together as this can help reduce excess use of social media. because I believe that when a member of the family is forsaken, he or she depends on the social media to make him happy.
Excessive use of social media can affect us in many ways but it is worth knowing that it affects us mentally and emotionally and also reduce human interaction. I dedicate my appreciations to all and sundry in this platform and also to fellow members of this noble community. To be honest, it is joyful thing to be one of the participants of this contest and I also want to invite @richy20, @chukwu10, and @graceani to participate in this contest, thank you so much for reading this post.
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Regards
@hive-168205
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I will agree with you my friend that excessive use of social media can limit human to human interaction as most people would rather prefer chatting over the phone than physically.
Best of luck my friend.
Yes brother, physical communication is an interaction between both humans.
¡Saludos amigo!😊
Me gusta mucho que definas a las redes sociales como un conducto que te lleva a lograr un fin y, así es como debe ser porque, de esa manera evitamos que las utilicemos de manera incorrecta.
Constantemente digo que lo peor que podemos hacer es hacer que esa herramienta sea nuestra vida ya que, de esa manera nos estamos esclavizando de algo que nos puede hacer daño.
Te deseo mucho éxito en la dinámica, un fuerte abrazo💚
Thank you so much for your comment
I definitely loved the development of the topic in your publication, everything is accurate for our benefit.
I loved the emphasis you place on allowing minors to use telephones, which should be supervised by adults and controlled in terms of time.
On the other hand, we have the situation of scams and virtual relationships with generally negative results, since, as you rightly say, they go hand in hand with fraud.
Greetings.
Thank you so much for this comment
I am no doubt very grateful