THINK before you click/speak

11|04|21 3rd entry for November

Hello hello there my fellow readers and writers it's me once again your lazy writer lazysnail, how's your day today? Time check it's 8:08 in he morning, are you planning to stay in your house or go outside your and interact? Write now we have a lot of ways to interact with our friends, loveones, families and even total strangers, we can interact physically and even with the use of internet.

A lot of medium were used to communicate with others, there's this old way to do it and eve effective way, talking physically, there are people who's sending letter to other. But the mostly used medium to communicate right now is the use of social media and internet. There's this messenger, facebook, twitter, discord, telegram, instagram and many other things. It's the easiest way to communicate with other people especially right now where we are facing this pandemic that some people can't go out and lessen their outside life. With the use of internet it's so easy to communicate and convey a message and so it can easily also hurt someone's feeling even unintentionally.

Misunderstooding message is really common in communicating using social media platforms, because of its barrier, like limited ways to express our emotions and tone. Especially when communicating through text messages. That's why we need to THINK

T= if it's true

Social media has a bunches of information, in just one click on internet you can get a bunch file of about that corresponding topics. Even in platform like facebook and twitter the most widely used throughout the world, even though we're not searching for it internationally we can still manage to see and gather different types of information. However, beware, I know you already know, that not all information you can see in internet are true. Most of them are biased, or even false information. That's why before you share information to other people that make sure that it is true to prevent confusing other's and hurting someone's feeling.

H= is it helpful

In tiktok, and facebook I mostly see this especially in tiktok platform, many people are sharing thoughts and opinions to their viewers however as I saw many of them is not that helpful, sharing red flags and green flags about relationships and even sharing toxic advice to other people, this kind of information will just lead to nothing but negative effects when followed by their viewers. The trend they're doing for the sake of like and views wherein they're bothering people and just gave trouble to them. And so we must think, especially for people who's famous that we must share things that helps other people grows and not just for our own sake.

I= is it inspiring

In internet, people loves to share their day, how their life went or even their bodies was shown to the world. People loves to show their achievements and hardworks. And so as I observe people loves to share opinions and insight about the specific post intentionally or unintentionally people are discriminating other, by body shaming, And other ways on it. That's why before you click you must think, "is it inspiring?" What will gonna happen if I click this button?. Will itis it make him/her improve? Will it make them motivate? Or will it make them happy? If not and will just gonna ruin their day then don't do it.

N= is it necessary

People loves to share, that's one thing I know from my observation, even me the snail before keep on sharing other's post because I just love it for no reason, anything that I found on internet that makes me smile I sharing it on internet. But then you just think of yourself before sharing, "is it necessary?" I mean, sharing happiness is great sharing knowledge is better, but there are people who's just sharing thoughts that's actually not needed and just gonna ruin someone's image, one perfect example is what happening today the election is near it will happen on next year Month of may. And so many people are fighting for their candidate, sharing knowledge, bragging accomplishment and many other things. There's no wrong in that kind of thing a formal debate is great in which vote side will get ideas and can think greatly, however people are crossing the line and hitting below the belt, instead of them debating knowledge and ideas, their goal changing to ruin the image of the people they're debating too. Naming them a lot of things that will discriminate them. Is that necessary in debate? I think not. It's now so we should think first before saying that one.

K=is it kind

Last but not the list, in communicating being kind is the best way to have the best response to our listener. "Don't do unto others what you don't want others do unto you" said by philosopher confucius. Be kind to everyone, no matter what circumstances is. Think first if what you're typing if they might misunderstood it or what. Being kind is essential to allow others and yourself to understand information more accurately and quickly. It's the first message that will gonna dictate whether you'll gonna have a good or bad communication.

Author's message

Think before you click the phrase we kept on seeing and reading, but mostly forgotten by almost all people. It is good to deliver message it is good to communicate, there's no bad in staying opinion, but let's all be sensitive and be aware that not all people think the same as us. A CAPS LOCK TYPE MIGHT BE YOUR WAY TO SHOW YOU'RE EXCITED BUT TO THEM IT MIGHT MEANS YOUR ANGRY AND SHOUTING. a simple emoji also do the same. It is easy in this internet world to experience miscommunication that might leads to problem and quarrel so we all must be sensitive.