Everyone crave for power, and one thing about power is that ot corrupts anyone who holds it and is not worthy of that power. We all know how poweful social media is, many people control the world with social media and it has the power to create or destroy.
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that social media has become a huge part of our daily lives, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. From staying connected with friends to sharing our opinions with the world, these platforms shape how we think, talk, and even feel. But what if you had the power to pull the plug on just one of them? Imagine a world where that particular app simply vanished, no notifications, no scrolling, no posts. Which one would you choose to ban for life, and why? Personally, I already know my pick: Facebook.
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I know there are still some people who love facebook, read news on it and some even make money on it. Now, I’m not here to say “Facebook must be Ban” but I’m here to say, if I had the power to ban any social media, my pick would be facebook.
There are many social media on my mind I would wish to ban, an example is “Tinder” but there is a personal reason why I would pick Facebook.
You see, Facebook is one of the social media that has been in existence for a very long time, almost all older generation have an account on Facebook, while many of the new generations kids also have an account there.
One of the reason I would ban Facebook is because of what happened in 2014/2015 during the boko haram crisis in my country. You see, facebook was one of the tool that was used to decieve the people with different fake news from left and right. We even got fake news from trusted news source, this even cause division amongst the people of my country and a lot of people died.
Fun fact, till date I don’t trust any news that comes from facebook because of the atrocities it has caused in my country and I wouldn’t think twice to put a story to thay social media.
It’s funny how man parent, from the older generation see a lot of fake news on Facebook and this is even before the creation of AI and they impose everything they saw into their children, and this same child grow up and their mentality has been damaged. The truth is, facebook has cause many damage over the years.
Currently, the facebook team have been looking for ways to manage this kind of situation and the kind of damage their social media has cause to many people all over the word. I’m not wishing the company bad, they still have a long way to change how I feel about that but currently, if I had that power to ban a social media for life, it would be facebook.
At the end of the day, I know banning Facebook wouldn’t magically fix the world’s problems, but maybe it would make people think more carefully about what they consume online. The truth is, social media isn’t entirely bad, it’s the way people use it that defines its impact. But when a platform becomes a breeding ground for misinformation, hate, and manipulation, it’s only fair to question if it still serves its purpose.
If I had the power to ban Facebook, it wouldn’t be out of spite, but out of hope , hope for a digital space that values truth over trends, connection over chaos, and understanding over division. Maybe then, we’d finally see what social media was truly meant to be.
Thanks for reading. My name is Fashtioluwa.
