Positive aspects of social media

Why is social sites considered a taboo in our society? Every once a while we come across hoardings and headings, we see them talking low of social sites. We often decorate gatherings, conferences and seminars for highlighting the misuses of social sites but as far as i am concerned about this i just want to draw your attention towards the good and legal uses of social sites . Someone has truly said that “Everything Has Its Pros and Cons, But the Minds Using It Should Have Brain to Utilize It in Better and Proper Way”. I think from this saying we can conclude this very thing in a way that it is not the social media but it is ourselves who are making social media a nuance. Last night me and my friends were discussing about a particular video that went viral on social media. During the discussion someone among us said that “I didn’t use social media” with a disgusting look, just to show that whosoever uses social media is not a good person. Not only that friend of mine but every now and then have we come across such people who have the same mentality. Whenever we talk about a particular app like Instagram or Facebook (owned by Meta) , someone would be there to give you a disgusting look . I didn’t understand what is the fun of showing that if a person is not using it, is a good person and if someone is using it , is a bad person . Most of the people in Kashmir must have noticed the fact that whenever a simple name ” FACEBOOK” is being uttered , our younger generation start hiding their faces , just because using it is considered a bad thing in our society. We are often taught that using social media is not good. But instead of this, if our elders tell us that using social sites for learning, teaching, knowing about new things etc. will be a better thing one can contribute to the coming generation. Social sites have many good uses if someone can look for. We can easily surf every possible thing on Google, if we don’t have a teacher we can take online classes, for shopping from a small thing to a big one we can easily shop from social sites, for booking travelling tickets, ordering food etc. So we can use social sites for many things that make our lives easy in the modern and high tech times. During COVID -19 we already came across the importance of social media. From one side life was stuck but social sites were the best friend in those tough times. As students, studying is the most important for us. And just because of the blessing of social media we didn’t feel like we were suffering.
We were easily able to take classes on time, doing assignments, tests etc. Even though we were not able to visit our near sightedness, just because of social media we felt like they were in front of us (Video Call). So people if we look for the good things that we can get from social media we find millions and zillions of such pros of social media , We can use social media to build up friends , schedule in-person interaction , and make community impact videos. We can also stay aware of current event and what is going on in their friend’s lives and 71%say that social media makes them feel more included and confident. Social media was once used for fun but nowadays we can use it for our career building like discovering new ideas and trends, bringing attention and traffic our work, also we can build, craft and enhance our brand. As estimated 81% of Americans have a social media account. And we also know that America is a super power. We can have a lot of benefits from social media but we just need to keep our minds on the right track and by doing this we can contribute to a nation in the best way. Social media changes all the time, so it is important to keep up with the evolution of the platforms and keep looking for ways to optimize our use of the available tools.
(The author is EVS Lecturer at Govt Higher Secondary School Khellani Doda. Views are his own)
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