The Most Ignored Part of Social Networks

The other side of the coin are the negative aspects presented by social networks that, unfortunately, do not lag behind the advantages. It is increasingly common to run into the problems of Social Media; These are for me the negative aspects of social networks in general.

Selective exhibitionism

The first is that there is an excess of 'selective' exhibitionism in which we show only one face of our life: the attractive, the full of successes and joys, leaving aside layoffs at work, love breaks, suspense exams We only show in social networks the successful face of our lives and leave aside all that can make us feel vulnerable or inferior to others.

Excessive vanity

Along with posturing and almost hand in hand, we find as a negative aspect the excess of vanity that is transmitted via social networks. We already discussed it when we analyzed the specific case of Twitter, but it is something that many social networks have in common: from the exaggerations of curriculum and professional experience in LinkedIn of many, to certain type of Instagram photos, through the retweets we make to the compliments that others make us; It seems that vanity is one of the most powerful engines of social networks.

Fragility of our privacy

Because of precisely the previous point and without hardly realizing we share intimate or very personal information with thousands of strangers. Deleting this fingerprint is not easy and images and comments that can make us lose a job or directly access a job are left for posterity. It would not be the first time someone loses his position because of an out-of-tune comment on social networks.

Rumors without contrasting

And if we saw with advantage the immediacy of information, the other side of the coin is the speed with which rumors that are not true, false myths, urban legends, stories directly invented and spread from one wall to another , more and more, the photos retouched and manipulated.
In the Social Media this type of information is spread with the speed of a virus and this is undoubtedly another of the negative aspects of social networks.

Loss of time

More and more people consider social networks a waste of time. There are many times in which the population consults the mobile throughout the day to see what has happened and what they have uploaded or shared their contacts.

And in the end, the sum of these breaks results in a total of time spent in networks that has not been dedicated to other tasks, whether at work or personal level. Therefore, more and more users temporarily or totally disconnect their social profiles.

Excess of advertising

Every time there are more ads flooding the webs. Social advertising floods the networks as banners, ads in the form of video or promotions that appear between publications or by surprise fill the entire screen of the page that you had previously accessed.

Errors that can be expensive

Finally, the bad thing about social networks is that they are a speaker of our opinions (and that's not always good). Before, if we said something inaccurate or wrong, nothing happened; Now the mess in social networks leaves a trace and, in some cases have been ridiculous national sounded by carried out by public figures. If the message to be shared had been thought of before, some resignation would have been avoided