We Should Distance With Social Media

.In the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, people who used to work for large social media companies get a chance to talk about the impact of social media on people. Because of that film, I limited myself to 'playing' social media. Someone in the documentary, at the end of the film, suggests that we go see the outside world. It was beautiful, he said more or less. He's right, we need to see the outside world - even when we're scrolling through the Twitter timeline. Social media can keep us locked in a bubble. When on Instagram we follow a footballer, for example, the system will recommend other soccer players on the screen. That's just a sportsman, but what if someone we follow turns out to be someone who provokes society - without us knowing it? Of course the system will again present us with provocative messages or provocative people. Unconsciously, we may have followed them, and even take their words as something normal. It should be noted that "commonplace" has fine lines with "what is". There is an interesting suggestion from the documentary, which is "to follow people who differ from me." The goal is that we can remain open to various views (apart from the right and wrong issues). Not confined to the bubbles that make up the content on the screen. Nausicaa Renner, in her essay in New Yorker, explains that in this era, humans can form their own narratives about themselves. Humans can choose what videos they want to remember on the YouTube channel, they can sort out what words they want to leave on the Twitter timeline.

The world is not constructed by adults anymore. Today, at any age, when a person can access the internet and social media, then he can build his own image. That too, we are not really alone in building an identity. There are still other people who also take part in determining who we are on social media. There are also digital traces — which are often misunderstood. It is also not wrong to think of social media as an unpredictable jungle. We can suddenly see Tiktok videos by people we don't know going viral, or suddenly someone being bullied, and so on. If you're lucky (or unlucky), we could also be one of them. On social media we are like writing with a pen. Even though it can be removed with an ex-tip, the marks will not disappear. And that is what makes a lot of people then be able to dash their name, the marks are not lost but scattered everywhere. So, always taking a distance from social media might be a good solution. We can't really live without using social media - at least we certainly use one. Well, we may actively use it, but we don't live in a virtual reality, right?