Social Media Survival guide

Social-Media survival guide

If you search my name, you will not see me online. I will be telling you about how to survive on social media. I do not appear on social media, therefore people cannot perceive me. I guess you can say, I do not exist. I don’t post anything online. I don’t recommend sharing things online. There are pros and cons to sharing online.

Pros:

• You might have something funny and want to send it to someone else

• You could go viral (in a good way)

Cons:

• What you send might be inappropriate and they could send it to a million different people and then everyone could see it. You would be publically humiliated.

• It could go viral (in a bad way)

Lack of control, permanence, and immediacy have a large impact on our lives. Permanence is in the internet. Once you post something, anyone could repost immediately, then you have no control over what goes on with the post. That’s the lack of control on the internet and the immediacy.

My thoughts on social media background checks for people applying to jobs is it doesn’t make sense to me. Whatever you do in your free time has nothing to do with what you do at work. So what you can smell like cigarettes or weed. Or you’re an  alcoholic, you do those things on you’re free time to have fun or release stress. If you didn’t want to lose your job for doing drugs or drinking, you wouldn’t apply for the job in the first place.

I am now going to discuss “free speech”. What is this free speech that you ask? It’s the right to speak your mind and give you 2 cents on what you think about whatever. But people take this “free speech” thing too far. When people start degrading people for how they look or how they speak is when it’s not free speech. After that point it’s just the hatred of yourself and not the person you make feel bad. Certain things are protected like telling someone to kill themselves. That gives you serious consequences. You go to jail and will get charged for I think murder. But things like racism, segregation, and bullying doesn’t seem to get noticed.

An internet troll is someone who just hates on people for no reason at all. They start arguments under videos on youtube just to watch the arguments for their enjoyment. They say things like under random videos saying “Justin Bieber is soooo much better than 1D.” I just sit and wonder why… just why would you do something like that. Their goals are to see people angry and argue so they can be happy because deep down inside, they are dead. We can stop trolling by not feeding into their nonsense. They are like a fire-if you stop feeding them air, they’ll die.

Let’s switch gears for a moment. Many people post anonymously online. Let’s see the Pros and Cons of this situation:

Pros:

• You post things that you don't think twice about, start a debate but they don't really know who you are so they can’t really kill you for saying something that you weren't thinking about the consequences for.

• People don’t really know who you are, or what you look like, they just like your content.

Cons:

• You might post something really inspirational, people like it, you could get famous, but nobody knows who you are so you can’t take the credit. Soon everyone else will be posting or saying it so much where it doesn’t matter.

Tips to survive social media:

• Don’t post any inappropriate content that could ruin your future

• Don’t be an internet troll

• Be positive