The world we live in has now become enhanced beyond what anyone could have thought of 10 - 15 years ago. We only knew that technology will change the world, make it better but no one could guess to what extent. I believe that what we are experiencing presently can not be compared to what is to come in nearest decades as long as technology exists.
Almost anything can be shared online, you just need to know how to access where it is hosted. Social media platform is one big field of the internet that is constantly, consciously or unconsciously driving this world.
In a world where opinions, ones that are dare to make a major decision and step in life, are being sorted for online instead of humans who might have insights. Social media platforms have been a big blessing to me, to the entity of human world and it still is but it has been getting out of hand in certain areas. Many of the social platforms allows both word and video contents, varieties of contents, music, science, art, education, technology, movies, etc. Also because these platforms allows opinions to be shared, we have had millions of personal thoughts, opinions, experiences shared online: many of which are bad, some are not entirely accurate or biased, while other defy the basic morals of human, culture, society and even some religion. These freedom of expression by certain individuals has attracted innocent souls, who somehow found these personal opinions, ideas, perceptions to be true or real, followed it, now making it a norm, which shouldn't be.
The unbalanced truths, biased opinions, wrong perceptions that have been confidently shared online (because social media is a medium of freedom of speech and expression now) has now taken roots in certain age demographs, who coincidentally embraced internet very early and found these things, consumed such contents and believed them. You'd need more than just wisdom and patience to get them to see a better and right path.
If I want to digress a bit, the use of AI, as much as it is doing so much good, there have been AI models that you can use to easily generate videos. These ones give you voice over with the videos and they can mimic humans, animals, things and places nearly accurately. Sora AI, you might have come across videos made by this particular AI model. Individuals now find pleasure in prompting it with different scenes and post online, one would almost think these videos are real.
My major concern is majorly towards the elderly, our parents who are not conversant with AI and everything about it. They see these videos online, especially Facebook and think it is real. They can't tell the difference between an Ai generated video and a real one. I am glad I was fortunate to see my mom watching one on Facebook, a very young boy was ready to fight his mom for seizing his junks, I had to tell her it's fake, I also helped her to identify the differences between real contents and Ai generated ones.
Banning of any major social media platforms isn't the solution, there are millions of businesses running inside those platforms. We know internet contributes majorly to business, marketing and sales. The solution I would suggest is national restriction on contents that violate specific basic rights, beliefs or morals. Companies that own these platforms should be on the look out to take down contents that aren't good enough, not just for adult but for kids as well. Every wrong or bad content online has more effect on the younger ones, it only takes time to be revealed.
The honest truth is this, the world cannot do without social media anymore, a lot of important details and information has been integrated into the system. If somehow TikTok is taken down, businesses will crash, content creators in every field and niche will lose a lot too, also, consumers who have certain accounts they go to to watch and benefit from will lose. Same goes for any major and popular social media platform. The best is to create a system that finds, flags and take down contents that aren't suitable.
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