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I prostate before my Root Teacher!
I started using Facebook twelve years ago and
I'm thankful to the team for connecting people across the globe. It has eased
our way in a different ways. To put it in short, Facebook has made all of us
like a single community.
Recently YouTube did a tremendous job and now there are
millions of content creators influencing through their vlogging life. Simple and
yet effective solution to our boredom? Anybody can make a vlog for that you do not
have to own expensive cameras. I have personally witnessed a poor
family getting rich, now they're helping not only their families but others as well.
On the other hand there are dark sides to what most of us
embraces with our open arm’s. When bad out weighs good it is a matter of concern
for all of us. Today there are increasing rate of youths suffering from mental
disorder, increasing suicides, polarization, rape case etc., that has a reason to blame social
media. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that fake news are six
times faster than the real one.
Few days back I came across one of
my Facebook friends post that he wanted to post a year before but for some
reason he couldn't until this lockdown. It’s about a Netflix Documentary which
was released two-years’ ago. I couldn't finish watching his video rather it
prompted me to search in some other reliable sources, the full documentary.
Although there were some reviews I had to watch some of them not because I
intended to watch. It is because I couldn't find what I wanted to watch in full
length. At last I was able to find with the help of a Google. It took hell of a
lot of time out of my day. And this is not the first time I have spent trying to
find something on Google.
After watching it pinned awareness about social media
and its ethical conducts. About how gigantic companies like Facebook and Google
are operated with the profit maximization as their core interest. And how they
can manipulate about billions of users with the help of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and the algorithm. Almost every social media apps uses one or similar kind
of algorithm to keep their users engaged all the time. These powerful machines
are triggering your emotions that you even do not know. Our body
releases dopamine—sort of chemical released by body to feel pleasure—while
engaging online and therefore our mind wants us to be near our mobile always
checking notifications. Most of us would have never thought of this but this is
not something accidental. Actually they're designed in such a way that you are
hooked on to the screen for hours and make you feels like it is only few
seconds.
Some of the former employees (resigned) of Facebook, YouTube, Google
and Instagram have shared their concern about how these companies are venturing
into unhealthy trends.
To understand technically you must watch The Social
Dilemma.
I do not totally disagree that social media is a waste. But the
question is about who should regulate it?
Hardly there is anybody who thinks
that this is a problem therefore it will take a long time to solve.
Social media
is not but they're designed to be addictive.
