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Firstly, I'd like to wish you a happy weekend. What did you do this weekend? What do you often do when you're spending your free time? Read a book, watch television channels, or... scroll through social media until you lose track of time?
I read the choice of themes for the weekly contest is always intriguing, also for this week, actually, there are two points that I want to discuss, but... I'm back to considering which one of the two I really want to write about? I chose the last point of this week's theme.
SOCIAL MEDIA, GOOD OR BAD?
Maybe some of us must have heard the term that social media is ‘like a double-edged sword’, why is that?
Just imagine, with the massive development of social media, almost all humans from all walks of life can easily access any information at an incredible speed. Accessing any information means both positive and negative information. So, besides bringing many benefits, social media also has a directly proportional influence, aka just as many bad things that come from social media.
Let's start with the negative ones
Increased crime, minor deviant behaviour, and other cyber crimes
Almost every day on news portals there is news of crimes that are getting more and more horrific in form: parents who kill their children, children who kill their parents, a father who rapes his own child, paedophilia, and many other things that when traced to the cause, have something to do with social media. Porn portals that are freely accessible, online gambling advertisements that are tantalising.
The online debt that plagues young people and young adults is also inseparable from the influence of social media, just look at the many examples that can be the causality between social media and the mounting online debt. For example; influencers show off their luxurious and tantalising lifestyles, not to mention food influencers who convince all their followers to be part of consuming what they show off. Not to mention skincare or fashion, etc.
Finally, potential consumers who have a mediocre income, will think of how to get what they want in an easy way. Online debt is the shortest solution. Then, impulsively, they become consumptive and start the seeds of prey for debt collectors.
Not only that, once the debts with high interest rates cannot be repaid, one problem after another arises: spousal quarrels and domestic violence, depression, and even suicide.
The phenomenon of suicide is also rampant due to bullying on social media. Tookoh idols who get blasted by haters, bullyng, and many more.
However, let's move to a sweeter point. What positive things can we get from social media?
Enhancing creativity, personal branding, even business opportunities
Yes! It's no surprise that people are now competing to become a content creator on almost all social media. Relying on salaries from accesses, or coins in the form of gifts that can be exchanged for income. Indirectly this encourages the person concerned to continue to think creatively for the content they have.
In addition, with the access to information that can be reached as widely as possible, people will be able to develop more rapidly. The ability to think also increases and increasingly, people can also critically assess the world issues that are interesting.
In addition, social media accounts are now a means of s=personal branding for companies that will accept prospective employees, therefore, account holders who know this opportunity, use social media as well as possible to build a good persona.
There are still other things that are useful from social media, namely business opportunities, MSME players or micro business pioneers can easily advertise their types/products with only a quota.
So, if I am asked whether social media is good or bad? My answer ... it is two sides of a coin or a double-edged sword.
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