Social Media is cancer

[darklus123]

His surely understands the problem. I also do and I am also willing to help him in my little own ways.

Social media is really a cancer when it comes to spreading fake informations.

Thro, social media everyone can become a reporter a weather forecaster a scientist, analyst and whatsoever. Without a proper degree or a professional license.

Would you want to have your child getting feed with bullshit information cause I don't

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[hardhardy]

His surely understands the problem. I also do and I am also willing to help him in my little own ways.

Social media is really a cancer when it comes to spreading fake informations.

Thro, social media everyone can become a reporter a weather forecaster a scientist, analyst and whatsoever. Without a proper degree or a professional license.

Would you want to have your child getting feed with bullshit information cause I don't

News have been fake since before social media.
Social media allows you to actively participate in picking your sources, so if you're smart, you'll get better quality than traditional media.
The bigger problem is social media addictions for the common folk, an even higher motivation to keep up with the joneses, jealousy, fake bragging and all that destructive garbage.
And since I don't care about news all that much I don't use social media (except linkedin).
No-one is forcing you to use it...

[ATMD]

As with any tool, its importance and merits are due to the users rather than the tool itself.

[guybrushthreepwood]

Life quality has vastly eroded due to social media so i'd say the word choice is perfect.

Has it really? It's like having a disease that you have purposely infected yourself with but we also have the cure for. Just turn off your computer if it negatively effects you so much. Technology should enhance your life, but if it doesn't them you should just stop using it.

[cizatext]

That is the fact social media if misused is even worst then a cancer, bad social media can destroy a Nation and crime on a high rate, fake new and documentary every where preaching lies and deceit.

[jjjfff]

That is the fact social media if misused is even worst then a cancer, bad social media can destroy a Nation and crime on a high rate, fake new and documentary every where preaching lies and deceit.

But who's fault is it when the masses believe lies and deceit?

If you say UFO has stolen money and everyone chooses to believe that instead of the more plausible possibility that the people spreading the rumour actually stole the money?

Should government regulate these rumours to make sure everything said is 100% true? That's what some regimes have tried in the past and failed miserably.

Unfortunately the lies and deceit are a consequence of free speech.

My main gripe with social media is that they're privately owned and speech in there is not really free. People are guided to conclude certain things.

Very famous news aggregators have thousands of users who truly believe they know everything and must give an opinion on everything. You see people sharing intimate details of their lives, sometimes embarrassing stuff, with complete strangers. All this within a privately owned platform that they don't even know who's behind it.

Why do the masses do it? They simply do it. Can't really blame social media IMO. People badly need tech education before accessing the internet. I don't think most people using social networks have any idea what's really happening behind the scenes when they use it.

[darklus123]

His surely understands the problem. I also do and I am also willing to help him in my little own ways.

Social media is really a cancer when it comes to spreading fake informations.

Thro, social media everyone can become a reporter a weather forecaster a scientist, analyst and whatsoever. Without a proper degree or a professional license.

Would you want to have your child getting feed with bullshit information cause I don't

News have been fake since before social media.
Social media allows you to actively participate in picking your sources, so if you're smart, you'll get better quality than traditional media.
The bigger problem is social media addictions for the common folk, an even higher motivation to keep up with the joneses, jealousy, fake bragging and all that destructive garbage.
And since I don't care about news all that much I don't use social media (except linkedin).
No-one is forcing you to use it...

Well, i know that one and to be exact media networks has been using the social platform as well. That addiction you were talking about has also been one of the reason why there are a lot of shit news.

If before you can only get fake news being shown publicly now anyone can do that and can also hide from those fake accounts.

Well, in my case I still am using it since it is helpful for my part to communicate with my friends

[MichaelNwaogbo]

True words

It brings people that are far that you know little about close to you but makes people that are close to you and very important far from you, it is so bad that you will see a family that should be discussing together after the days activities with their different gadget's on social media, even communicating to each other on social media when they are actually under the same roof.

and it even spread like a cancer so much so that if the persons that should be discussing with you are with their phones on social media you will most likely start pressing your own phone or just leave the scene because you cannot just talk to yourself.   

[suresh sanjaya]

Cancers can be control by medicine.the medicines can be natural or artificial.if social media is a cancer it also can be control using some medicine but the medicines is not physical as we think.
We should know manage every thing.social media is not bad.it can be use to make our life better.if someone addicted to social media it also can be make our life as hell.so we should know manage everything using our brain.

[Initscri]

I actually miss my former life where social media wasn't a thing. For a good majority of my life I never even knew Facebook (or other SNs) existed (and I much prefer it that way).

It's sort of one of those things where it grew to fast, that even if you don't want to use it (because a majority of the modern world uses it), it's impossible to avoid 100%.

[ballerin and giroud]

Well, in my case I still am using it since it is helpful for my part to communicate with my friends

Everything can be positive and can be negative depending on the type of person who uses it. If someone know bounds of using social media then he can use it wisely and not be categorized as a disease, and otherwise for someone who uses social media unwise then he has been poisoned and become a disease.

[Yeahpro]

The irony of social media is that it makes people antisocial, this applies those who misuse it.
It facilitates communication and connects people on a global scale that was previously unimaginable. False news is not an inherent with social media, it started witg media itself.

Then there's the threats of misuse of our personal information, likes and dislikes, social media has access to out tastes, characters and behaviours.

[mich]

If you're a business owner or want to start a business, then social media can be a prayer sent:

-It’s free to use (even if it can be time-consuming)
-It helps shape the personality of a brand
-It’s the future (and the present)
-You can participate in two-way conversations
-Brand advocacy grows increasingly powerful
-It’s the softest conversion point you have
-You can get a search ranking and SEO boost
-It will become a stable source of traffic (if you get it right)

With a little bit of creativity and some luck, Social media can be used to your advantage and to earn profit

[vv181]

~snip

For a business owner, social media is a heaven for them. The targeted ads provided by the social media company is work like a charm for business purposes. The problem is as a regular society they are blinded by social media, as a society perspective we could say that millenials are degraded in term of social awareness.

[saulzaents]

SM is a great way to reconnect with lost friends and family that you would otherwise not be able to find.
I have used SM to reconnect with people from all over the world.  
Cancer is literally one of the most god awful things in existence so I’m not sure how someone can even consider something disgusting and deadly like cancer to SM.

Source: sister went through chemotherapeutic treatment and is now ridden!
F*CK CANCER!

[@kprodip230]

In fact,Social Media there are advantages and disadvantages of some things.In such a way, there is a lot of problems in social media and there is a lot of problems. But the reason for the inconvenience is that for some people's wrong news, which acts as a virus in the society. So if they can not prevent them, such propagation can lead to serious forms of cancer in society.

[MMysterious]

Duh! As if mainstream media aren't cancer too. Being on television newspaper or radio media doesn't meant you weren't bias and are manipulating things. In places where democracy is limited like Saudi Arabia, social media is a big help. Risky of being caught though.

[cizatext]

The social media is open for everyone but what you take from it is what matters, social media have always been against bitcoin and cryptocurrency such as Facebook who bans cryptocurrency related ads. But we should move ahead the social media and lunch into a world of total love for the blockchain/cryptocurrency world.

[SplitBirb]

My New Years resolution is to get a flip phone with no smart capabilities. Having a smart phone is an addiction just like alcoholics or drug addicts. I use my smart phone easily over 5 hours daily (probably more like 10+). This time can be better spent with my family. I miss the times of going out to eat and everyone talking, no one on the phone texting or browsing the internet. Wish me luck, it will not be easy. 

[MoonCrypt]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/billionaire-la-times-owner-calls-social-media-the-cancer-of-our-time.html

For once, I agree with a billionaire. 

this is a well-known fact the way it affects the mind of the people is so viral that there is no cure