SEC15 WK1: "Life on Social Media"

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For an average young person, our daily lives literally revolves around the internet and social media platform. The real beauty of social media is that we get to be active participants by sharing beautiful moments of our lives for our friends and family to see and celebrate with us. For some, it has become a tool they leverage to reach out to a larger audience to share their products or services or creativity. It really is a modern wonder! However, there are a few concerns, some of which I’ll love to mention here.

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No, not explicitly.

The trick here is separating our personal lives from our professional lives.
When it comes to our professional lives, I think there is nothing wrong with putting it out there as it can help in publicizing our services and products or creativity; and gives us a better and larger audience.

However, for our personal lives, we should exercise caution because at the end of the day, privacy is something that should concern us all. So we wouldn’t want to show the layout of our private homes to millions of strangers out there.

Yes, there are people who are talented and creative in one aspect or the other (like comedians, artist and other content creators out there). Most of these people starts out like that, but it’s hardly about personal lives, it’s mostly their craft that they like showing. And after a while, due to their ingenuity, they starts to attract a fan base who appreciates and enjoy their contents.

Even for these people, after they’ve become popular, they refrain from posting things that could reveal something personal about them and they start being concern about their privacy.

Capital NO!

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Sometimes, people borrow money and fall into debts just because of trying to maintain a certain lifestyle on social media even if they cannot afford such lifestyles. Young people borrowing things like clothing just to show off.

Another thing is that we live a world where people love frenzy and buzzy trends. People love online gossips and are always eager to click on the splashy headline just to know the latest gist in town. For this reason, some bloggers sometimes do put up a show just to get the frenzies and generate traffic on their sites to make money.

Take for example when Nigerian Actor Charles Okocha (Phenomenal) and singer Portable where rumoured to be fighting. It was basically a show to generate traffic.

Yes. And that is primarily because I tried not to publish too much personal information on any online platform.

And when it comes to steemit.com, it is not just an online platform, it is a Blockchain which basically means that once a piece of information is added to the chain, you cannot delete it completely

So yes, I know the platform might not exploit the personal data but there people on the platform seeing all the data we are putting out there.

Yes, social media has really help transform our lives positively and helps us keep in contact with our families and friends. It has given us a platform to share wonderful moments of our lives with others and share our professional lives for potential customers or clients. However, we should exercise some control when using it to protect out personal life.

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