In today's world, social media has been one of the greatest tools in our everyday lives; for some, it has been a means of their livelihood and that's where they earn money to sort out their bills and anything that has to do with finances.
In fact, i do not think i can do without social media in a day with the likes of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram because it makes it easier for me to communicate with my friends who are not around and also friends that we do check up once in a while and also old friends back in high school and basically, it makes friendship longer because communication is one of the main aspects of friendship.
There are numerous positive and advantages of the use of social media from making friends, to finding jobs online, exposing your business around different countries without being there physically, to making new friends and it goes on and on.
Today i am writing about the negative impacts of social media and most especially Twitter which is now known as X.
as there are numerous advantages, there are also numerous disadvantages, and these are some well known disadvantages to me:
1. DECREASE IN PRODUCTIVITY: we all know social media can increase productivity and also it has the possibility to decrease productivity as well from causing distractions throughout the day and also making you interact in conversations that probably won't benefit you and at the end of the day making you waste time and indirectly making you push the tasks you were meant to do at a particular day to another day and that is how procrastination begins.
2. MENTAL STRESS: Excess continuous use of social media will expose you to the reality of life that you do not need now, especially seeing your mates buying cars, and houses and owning different properties. this will make you start questioning your self worth and gradually depression starts to set in even without knowing the source of their livelihood whether it is bad or good.
3. LONELINESS AND ISOLATION: When you start relying too much on social media and it becomes part of your daily routine, a gradual decrease in real life social interactions will become a problem because you are always glued to your gadgets. gradually you will start isolating yourself and become lonely, you won't notice this until your friends start telling you that "they rarely see you around these days".
4. ONLINE HARASSMENT AND RACISM: This has become one of the major problems in the use of social media nowadays. we are been exposed to harassment and racism every day and even when you report those accounts, they rarely get punished and that can really hurt us psychologically. because of racism, we have seen people leaving social media for good because they could not cope with the injustice.
5. FAKE NEWS: This is one of the major problems of social media, sometimes you won't be able to differentiate between truth and lies when it comes to news. people keep posting different news with no sources and others keeps sharing without confirming the source of such news and gradually everyone start spreading fake news and sometimes which might lead to fear among the users of such platform.
**6. PRIVACY: ** This is one of the important concerns about social media, everyone complains of identity theft every now and then and to be honest nothing can be done about that because we have shared so much data about ourselves on social media which cannot be collected back.
However, there are more disadvantages to social media when you are addicted to it but there are also benefits to using social media. all that matters is how we use it.
MAKE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, DON'T MAKE IT USE YOU.
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