Positive Effects of Social Media

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Date: Wednesday. 20th of April, 2022.

Hey guys, I hope you're feeling good. My day was championed by a mix of emotions but it all turned out OK.

There have been so many negativity surrounding social media lately. It feels like people don't know what to use it for so they think of the most stupid things and post online. There are so many uses of social media, the actual uses these networks were created for but people have ignored them and rather chosen to focus on fraud, nudity, harassment etc. There is also the issue of early exposure that occurs when a little child is able to access any sites without any parental control. Children are quickly being stripped off their innocence, sense of wonder and childhood because they have seen it all before their young minds can even understands what they are seeing.

The month of April is still the Sexual Assault Awareness Month #SAAM and the theme for #SAAM2022 is "building safe online spaces together". To play a part, I wi like to discuss other positive ways one can leverage social media.

  1. Global Connection

It is no secret that one of the major aims of social media was to create easy access and connections to people regardless of the barriers of location. Even the language barrier is being tackled as some of these networks are now offering the feature of translation using Google translate. The social media network serves a global village where everyone can reach out to anyone in just a second. This fosters global communication, tolerance and unity between people of different countries, culture, tribe, race etc.

  1. Business to Customer Interaction

Are you a business owner or do you aspire to be one? Whether small or big? Are you a potential customer looking to find products or services in the comfort of your home? If your answer dashes to any of the above, then you need to be looking at the series of options social media offers. Facebook currently has a marketplace where people can put up products and customers can buy. You can link your Ecommerce website to Instagram. You can choose to also just put up pictures of your products, include the product description as the caption and also the price. If you do that, customers will be able to leave a comment to show interest or send a direct message to foster engagement sales

  1. Education

There are certain types of education one can attain from social media. There's the good and the bad but we'll be focusing on the good. There are so many tutorials existing on social media. People are also willing to share life tips or enlighten people about their careers or skill set. One could learn from intellectual discussions, free training etc. One can also get necessary tools, materials or information needed to advance in their careers, studies or general life on social media.

While social media may have been misused by some, it is necessary to note that there are other positive ways to engage online.

Thank you so much for reading, I appreciate you!

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Most time when I want to read, especially a new topic, i do have my phone or laptop with me, cause sometimes the text book might not explain it to an understandable way, so I have to use the internet via social media to get more insight, from little I have always use social media for educational stuff and business.. No time for unnecessary things. But sometime I go around watching video on Instagram😁

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1 year ago

Yeah, the Internet is good for research. Me too, I usually get lost on Instagram sometimes but I try to curtail it lol

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1 year ago

You're right, there's a lot of news and education on Social Media. We can gain new knowledge just by watching short videos, reading articles and Facebook posts. But still, there's a lot of user who use social media to commit crime, cyber bullying, spreading fake news and etc. Let's just be careful.

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1 year ago

Yeah, it should be used in the right way rather than for crime

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1 year ago

If use correctly, social media can be a good tool for businesses and international networking.

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1 year ago

It definitely can

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1 year ago

Well, everything has a positive and negative side it's up to us which side we choose. But I think nowadays everyone is using social media as a negative.

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1 year ago

Yes, exactly

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1 year ago

One of the main functions of social media is to bring people together and spread positivity, but it seems more of negativity is been carried out there these days

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1 year ago

It's just crazy the kind of things that are happening

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1 year ago

Social media initially sprung up for the positive reasons, but people leverage on it, and started using abusively. But nonetheless, we still have many people who know these reasons, and till today are still using it to educate, and to do business with customers.

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1 year ago

Yes, it was made to be used for good

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1 year ago

If only it is used for positive things then it's ok. We all have known the advantages of it.

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