Social Media: Harmful or Helpful?

 

There is no doubt that social media has become a major part of modern life. And I can’t see that changing much in the near future. Social media definitely has had a negative impact on my own life. We all know the impulsive addiction to checking social media feeds when you really have no reason to do so. Whenever we are doing any activity, we constantly keep our mobile phones next to us, and we keep checking the social media. Social media has a certain kind of addiction through which we can’t keep ourselves away from it for too long.

This addiction of ours is very harmful and it can lead to many poor consequences. Social media can be just like a digital form of sugar. Sure it may feel good and it’s fun to eat, but you can’t live on it. Just like sugar, social media is made up of empty calories and isn’t intended to keep us healthy and well in the long-term.

On the other hand, social media has proved itself very useful also, such as we can communicate to anyone through it, we can post whatever we want to, we have liberty and freedom to do anything on social media. And there are many possibilities such as many people have become famous due to social media. It has helped in kick starting many people’s career. If you leave a comment, send me an email, or connect on social media, perhaps we’ll one day be at the same event together and we’ll get to talk about intentional living and how your life changed after decluttering your home. 

For me, that’s the entire point of social media–creating real connections through digital ones.

It turns out, social media really is a powerful tool to create meaningful connections, we just have to use it properly. Just like a hammer, you can use it to build something beautiful or whack someone over the head with it. It isn’t inherently good or evil, it just is. So that is why we must use it carefully and for great purposes. 

We are aware of our surroundings because of scrolling on instagram and watching people’s tweets and many other things. So it must be used properly and then you will know social media’s magic. The best part about this is that you have the power to decide how you want this to be a part of your life. But no one is going to make that decision for you–you get to choose whether it’s personally a good thing or a bad thing for you.

There are many things which we all can do to use social media for better reasons and it could change our lives. Participating in trending topics, where appropriate, can help you get your brand in front of a larger audience. 

Just like this there are many advantages as well as disadvantages of social media, but we should use it efficiently so that it would benefit us as well as others near us. We should scroll through instagram daily whenever we get time, but not all the time. We should do that in our free time and get knowledge from it. I’d consider social media to be something like a protein supplement. Sure, it feels good to take and might help you recover from your workout faster, but it was never designed to replace working out in the first place. One without the other is wasting money and time on what I’d consider a false-first step–looking for a solution without doing the actual work.

So that means that it’s up to us to determine how we want to use that tool in our lives to make it better and not worse.