Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog. No doubt social media has done more good than harm; it has made communication and reaching out to friends and family very easy. Gone are the days when we could only reach out to friends and family using letters, and we upgraded to just phone calls, but now we can reach out to family and friends without phone calls; we can chat with them all day long; we can get all the information we need without a single phone call; and this is all thanks to social media.
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Communication was easy, but rumors and fake news spread faster. Social media has its good sides, but lately the bad sides is starting to outweigh the good sides. A lot of societal pressure we experience today is all thanks to social media. Youths want to impress and live like the others on social media and are in one way or another forced into something they shouldn't have even thought of, but the pressure to be like the rest got the best of them.
I was going through a Facebook page the other day. My friend's dad shared his opinion on a topic, and a boy our age replied with insults. All I could do was get angry and wish we could get to him just so he knew the user on the other side of the phone was not his mate. The level of disrespect experienced on social media is something else. Just because you have a phone and data subscription does not warrant you to talk to people anyhow, but thanks to social media, we all see ourselves as mates as long as you can afford a smartphone and data.
Thanks to social media, a lot of marriages crumbled to the ground, as a lot of people had their own opinions on how you should treat your partner. "The Gen Z baddies" a few weeks ago came to social media and said a wife cooking for her husband is slavery and all wives should stop cooking for their husbands. I know a few relationships that crashed because of that. Some ladies took it very seriously, and now they are begging the man to kick the new lady out and let them cook for him with their own money.
It's only on social media that a couple still living together takes marriage advice from a divorcee. Social media has its good sides and bad sides, and it all depends on how you want it to affect you. You can let it work for you positively and, at the same time, let its negative effect come upon you. It's all your choice how social media affects you.
For me, it's completely okay to be judged by what we put or say out there on social media; whatever you put out there defines who you really are. Even though people do things and go the extra mile for fame and followers, that does not mean you should forget your values. What you put out there defines you, which is why we should be careful what we post, as the internet never forgets.
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