Social media is the most advanced version of media on which the public can post with freedom without any restrictions and due to this property, a lot of deprived regions and people have come to the light who were tolerating cruelty for decades. It is through social media that the flow of information is fast. People interact with each other and post their content to grow their audience. Due to the monetization policy, people are rewarded for their excess likes and views. This has given livelihood to many people but has done much harm as well as spread vulgarity, obscenity, rubbish content, and disinformation.
In the start, people posted useful and inspiring content and grew their audience but later on people started posting weird content in the name of humour. The tragedy is instead of discouraging them, people started watching them and grew their audience,making them sta which they don’t deserve to be. And now we see a weird creature acting like a star. Through family vlogging, creating hysteria, spreading false but thrilling information, making controversial statements, or leaking clips, people have misused the monetization process.
I am the one who has never been on mother of all these rubbish content i.e Tiktok. I have never followed or watched
Any family vlogger or one who posts vulgar content under the mask of comedy. I believe all that litter on social media and the impunity to post everything is due to hunger for money. The algorithm of social media monetization is quantity dependant rather than quality dependant and rewards based on views and followers only rather than checking the nature and quality of content.
There can be many other sources of livelihood. For centuries people have earned livelihood and for many centuries people will earn too. Excusing the objectionable content just because it is providing livelihood to many people is very baseless. My main objection is to making such illiterate and non-sense people a star and presenting them as heroes. You might have seen them doing philanthropic work and giving motivational videos but all this is just to get more and more fame.
So, in my opinion, monetisation is the worst thing happened to social media. It's due to monetisation that quality use of former Twitter have gone and only those are left who are seeking monetarial gains from it by posting weird posts including vulgarity to mockery. If it could be in my hands, I must stop this monetisation or at least put some checks and balances on it.
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