Steemit Engagement Challenge / S13W2 - "Protect Your Mental Health From Social Media Dangers"

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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog as well as the Steemit Engagement Challenge, Season 13, Week 2. I am so much excited to be part of this contest. Just as everyother person participating in this contest I will be sharing with you what and how use my social media and how I have been maintaining a healthy networking life on social media.

We all know social media these days has been a room to a lot of vices making it seem the social media space overwhelmingly harmful to the society amidst it's wonderful contribution to the society, but then, let me share with you how to protect ones mental health from the overwhelming negativity introduced into the social media space.

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To me, "Social Media" are platforms where I get to connect with people both known and unknown. These are platforms such WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X where I get information about what is happening around me and outside my own space.

Additionally, social media to me brings me just a chat close to people, with social media I have been able to network across the globe at the comfort of my home. I get to chat with people, read self-building contents and be enlightened on different innovations around the world. Also, I get to spend atleast 2 hours everyday on social media because lately, I have been busy with offline activities which has given me just little time to check through my social media.

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The social media space despite it numerous positive contributions to the society has also inturn carries tons of negativities and here are some;

• Fake News/ Propaganda: These days, alot of fake news has been going on, on social media, people are being misled by the informations they are being exposed to on the social media space. Top Propagandas are being sponsored on the social media space due to it numerical advantage thereby producing a lot of mislead citizens.

• Early Exposure to Illicit Pictures And Contents: For social media space such as Only Fan where people exposes their private parts for tokens, this has gotten a lot of teenages to be addicted to pornography and masturbation at early stage of their lives which is quite opposite of what the social media represents.

• Fraudulent Activities: It is on no news anymore that alot of fraudulent activities has been going on on social media, this has gotten a lot of people right into troubles and debt. Some people impersonate celebrities just to fraud the vulnerable. There are so many cases of fraudulent activities going on on social media.

• Social Media Addiction: Social media on it own can create a sense of addiction, making people glued to there devices from morning till night. People have had terrible accident while chatting on social media. The addicting phase of social media can be so severe if not tamed from the start.

• Illegal Collection Of Users Personal Datas: Alot of people's information has been spread across all social media space, so most of these companies inturn collects data of users who signed up with them and probably sell them to illegal sites making the users fraud prone. This can only be regulated by the government inorder to stop this particular act.

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Personally, if I am on the table of influence to add some rules that will regulate the use of social media and minimize it abuse, then, I would add the following;

• There Should Be Social Media Platforms meant for only kids and the contents made there should be good for kids consumption.

• Any one found guilty of posting pornographic images and videos should be banned from the social media platform as well as paying a fine.

• A Timer should be set on every social media platform which will give each user a countdown of time they should spend per day on the platform and if they exhaust the time, they should be logged out.

• Anyone found impersonating some other person inorder to scam someone should be tracked down by the person's IP address so they face a jail terms.

• Lastly, every social media platform that supports hate speech and propagandas should be banned as well as those supporting pornographic medias.

The social media space has been one of the best invention so far that has helped connect different people from different race, inorder to keep it more healthy, a reform should be made inorder to regulate the Activities of it users.

I invite @emily08, @etette and @wirngo to participate in this contest.

To know about me check my introduction post

INTRODUCTION POST - ACHIEVEMENT-1