Social Media - The Silent Killer
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The term "social media" describes a range of technological tools that encourage people to exchange ideas and information. From Facebook and Instagram to X platform (formerly Twitter) and YouTube, more than 4.7 billion people use social media, equal to roughly 60% of the world's population. A recent survey found that the main reason for using social media is to keep in touch with friends and family. Besides some positive sides, there are some negative sides too. Social media is definitely a silent killer because it hampers our valuable time, creativity, connection, privacy, and so on.
Social media kills time:-
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From child to young, age of all people are giving a huge amount of time in social media.
Social media kills creativity:-
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From student to employee, all classes people don't think too much before doing something. Instead of using their brain, they instantly go through social media to find sources. They don't even hesitate to scroll online platform and copy the whole idea from there and paste it to their workings. As a result, plagiarism happens in the academic community and employee groups pull their luck to lose jobs.
Social media kills the beauty of language:-
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Social media is killing the beauty of language by shortening the word. Every day human finds new shortened words to send others and thus it become familiar to other people. It is now quite popular among students. Using messenger, whatsapp, and other apps, people often use shortened versions of words in order to send text to others quickly. Although it saves too much time, it is degrading the beauty and vision of a language.
Social media kills childhood and the innocence of kids:-
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We can clearly observe the habits of today's kids and the kids of 90s. We can see a huge difference between them. In 90s kids toddlers used to play in playgrounds or open fields. Even we can hear it from our father and grandfather. They used to play different types of games even they could create a new type of game in order to have fun with others. But today's kids are no longer like them. They choose to have a mobile or computer to entertain themselves instead of going outside. They lose the chance to meet and make friends.
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Parents are highly responsible for this. They simply give electronic devices including mobile, tab, laptop and computer to their child to make them calm. And thus guardians can do their work easily. But parents don't realize it that its is destroying their kid's childhood day by day.
Social media ruins relationships :-
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Once upon a time when parents called their children to have lunch and dinner. Specially mother called their child with her lovely voice like - "I am serving dinner. Please come on time to the dinner table. We have something special today. Don't be late.'' Then usually daughters who used to come and help their mother to serve the food. Boys used to go to their father and grandparents and bring them to the dinner table. And they sat together for dinner. That moment was tremendous and memorable. On the other hand, look at the scenario of nowadays, mother forgets to serve food on the table after a long phone call and scrolling social media. Even, though the mother serves the food, the father and kids don't come to have dinner together. Before having dinner outside in a restaurant they can't wait to capture it on their mobiles and upload it to facebook and instagram.
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Some solutions :-
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- We can control our social media screen time.
- We can turn off our social media notifications.
- We can spend more time offline with family and friends.
- We can inculcate a hobby to entertain.
- We can also quit social media if possible.
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