Social media is vile

Social media is evil. There, I said it. I mean it. I will prove it. 

In last 15 years, we have seen a rise of social media platforms. At first it was an innocent platform like Orkut, where you can make friends and write something nice to them on their profile.

Then came Facebook. Initially it was about connecting with your old friends and creating new friends. It was easy to connect with your old friends who were far away. It was free. We can easily stay connected with our distant friends via the Facebook using the internet. Also we can create new friends even without meeting them in person. It was a cool and a creative idea to bring the world closer and together. 

Along came Twitter (now known as X). This platform was used moreover for voicing the opinion. It had character limitation so you can maximum put your feelings in a sentence. Later, there were many enhancements to this platform leading to improving the character limitation and addition of media like photos or videos. However it still remained a platform where the opinions were stated.

Then came platforms like Instagram. Initially Instagram was used mainly by photographers, National Geographic channel or Discovery. It was mainly about posting the pictures. We can post pictures on Instagram and we can get inspired from others work. 

Later came vicious platforms like Snapchat and Tiktok. These platforms opened a new world for the artists. Using these platform various singers, dancers, artist, or actors created short videos lasting from 10 seconds to 50 seconds. This videos showed the snippet of their artistry (so called). Snapchat and and TikTok took the world by a storm. Majority of young generation wanted to move to these platforms. Other platforms started lagging behind and they joined the race with these platforms. They introduced the same features with Snapchat and TikTok had allowing the content creators to create short videos there as well. 

Along with widening of social media platforms came the evil part of them. People started commenting on various post and started bullying. The bullying was not only limited to the content creator but also to other people who were commenting on the posts. Several content creators were highly disappointed because of the responses they were receiving on their posts. 

But this was not the end of it. Platforms where you can voice your opinion or state the facts can also be used for misinformation and disinformation. People voice their opinion and started calling it a fact because it was documented on social media. Content creators realised their power and decided to misuse it. Various creators engaged in promoting hate speech against a political party, public figure, or a specific community. The blind followers of such content creators became equally hateful. Many followers blindly trusted their favourite content creator and lead several violent activities unnecessarily. Young generation just started blindly following their influencer and they ignored facts. Several people had the mindset that if their favourite influencer is saying something, then it is right. Their word is the final word.

Several protests and violences that occurred in last few years I will completely attribute them to the hateful social media. If such hateful social media remains in the society we are doomed. 

I also use various social media platforms. Having said that when I will feel that social media is now the work of demon, I will leave all the platforms at that very moment. This is a promise.