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Dark side of social media
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A systematic review of research into the dark side of social media use has identified 46 harmful effects, ranging from physical and mental health problems to negative impacts on job and academic performance, as well as security and privacy issues.
Social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram are used by more than 3.6 billion people worldwide. Greater awareness of the potential dangers can encourage user moderation, and help software engineers, educators and policymakers develop ways to minimise negative effects.
“Social media harms have mostly been studied from a psychopathological perspective. They have received less attention from information systems researchers,” says Dr Eila Erfani, Deputy Head of the UTS School of Information, Systems and Modelling.
“Information systems looks at the impact of technology on people and organisations in order to better meet their needs. Identifying and understanding how to reduce adverse outcomes from social media use is part of that challenge.
“The World Health Organization has recognised the need for further research on information technology addiction and the need to develop strategies for preventing and treating this problem,” she says.
" Social media harms have mostly been studied from a psychopathological perspective. They have received less attention from information systems researchers."
Social Media Makes Us Unsocial- Drifting From Family
Are you also extensively connected to your family on Facebook, or if you are a teenager or someone in his 20s, have you blocked your family on Instagram? Social media is often looked at as a tool to connect to friends at all times, but what gets overlooked is the familial part.
There is a large role of social media in connecting family members to each other in the 21st century. Groups with more than 50 participants that include distant cousins and NRI relatives is something that everyone in the era of Whatsapp has experienced.
Facebook walls are filled with comments and likes congratulating a family member on their marriage or any other achievement, and are decorated with smiley and emojis and stickers.
This might seem yet another positive feature of social media that should be listed under the prime features of social media, but as was observed in the previous post, these features often due to the human psyche bring about the worst of social media instead of proving its real-life advantages.
This is part 2 of the “Social Media Makes Us Unsocial” series by Shruti Sharma Productions and today we will discuss how social media makes you drift away from familial problems.
Responding Without Feeling
More often than not, it is very easy to communicate with family on social media- mostly because it is done on a surface level. Forget distant family; nowadays people don’t even look at what their close relatives are up to since on social media and the bombardment of content, it takes zero effort to double-tap your screen and scroll away like always.
Family matters, the life of your parents if you live away from them, and distant relatives is all available at the click of a button- correct that- not even a click of a button, but the scrolling of a screen. Social media mixes personal relations with regular content which makes not only the younger generation but also the older one become distant from family.
Convenience as we may have thought did not bring better connection with family, it instead bought surface-level emotions and disconnect.
Disconnection From Family
Due to the rapid availability of distant familial conditions and ease of connections, it is easy to weave a strong family but also easy to drift away on the surface. As beneficial social media has been in the pandemic, it has served as a tool to get disconnected from your family, since it is very easy to get entwined in apps and websites when stepping out of your house is forbidden.
Surface level connection with one’s family has been so common in the pandemic because social media enables us to make relations with the touch of a screen. And as convenience goes, we have already discussed how the convenience of social media actually deforms something it looks to reform.
Double-taps, likes, emojis, and stickers are forms of expression sure, but they surely have contributed to the growing surface-level emotions towards family, especially in the lockdown period of 2020.
solution to Solve Disconnectedness
Well, as direct as it may sound, to solve the disconnection problem with your family, just use the revolutionary features of social media with care.
Video call your family members when you think of them, use features of social media carefully, and connect with family to establish a strong connection. Everyone, even more so in the pandemic, needs a comforting shoulder from their family.
Call up your family or text them with genuineness, and try not to get lost in the sea of content and news on social media. Your family is not just a profile or a page you follow, but your family. Do follow up and stay connected to them, as it may seem easy to drift the other way.
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