Click, click and post’ has become a slogan for social media users. The whole world is trying to catch up with trends. We have become addicted to social media without even realizing that it has become part of our lives. With SARS COVID-19 hitting us, people began to take advantage of social media to express themselves in ways they didn’t realize existed.
Instagram and Facebook make it easy for people to buy from their users by making their stores available on social media platforms. Multiple small-scale businesses emerged as baking, pottery, arts and crafts, jewelry, fashion, and cosmetics. There are now more business opportunities available on social media platforms than they are for entertainment
There is no doubt that social media has had a great impact on society, but we must not forget that capitalism has had a large role to play in this.
Secondly, black lives matter was also a prominent movement calling out racists and racism in the system. These were the couple movements that captured the social media platforms recently.
In India and worldwide, political parties are using social media to reach out to young voters. Donald Trump, the US president, has noticed that this is happening through his Twitter campaign.
One might think, okay social media helps us to stand for what we believe what’s the deal?Â
Social media helps us support beliefs we think we need to hold rather than those truly relevant. Inhibits an individual’s curiosity to analyze, informed opinions. Any media or activity can cause people to change, such as eating kit kats the right way. There is no need to worry about how either of those things are done; all that matters is how they are presented.
As with any electronic platform, social media can have negative effects when excessively used, especially among the new generation.
