Social Media - A Mind Game

I was just grasping today over something which I felt was worth making a mention of especially considering the fact that today, it influences both our personal and professional lives a lot. It is nothing but social media.

Social media has had a really profound impact on our day to day lives. It has really influenced us a lot in the way we think, our opinions we have on various matters of interest be it either social, or political or in most cases to do with our own personal and professional lives.

Having been on social media for the past four years, I have gone through all the ups and downs of what it really takes to be an active user, first on Facebook and now on Instagram. 

The one thing that I would really like to make a mention of, especially for those who are hardcore Instagram users is that, that there is one thing in common that really affects us all on this platform and that is mainly the followers and the likes, as that is what really brings us back to the platform every time and keep using it extensively.

The reason why I have titled this article as 'Social Media - A Mind Game' is because I have reached that point where I personally feel that social media is nothing but an exposition of people's mindsets or their ways of thinking on various platforms, be it either on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and for that matter even Twitter. 

This ranges right from all the popular quotes we come across on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to even the memes which depict how we react as example in a particular situation depicted by way of pictures and text and when we feel it resonates with us a lot, we feel like sharing it on the platforms. The whole point here is that all of us do not realise that we give our friends or even someone whom we've just come across, a peak into our personal lives a lot which could actually be exploited in the long run.

Taking advantage of the engagement that these platforms today provide to all those active users out there, a lot of opportunity has been provided to many of the influencers, to be more specific the YouTubers, as by analysing on the various issues that affect people's personal lives, they are able to attract larger audiences as the content they produce on their pages is able to touch upon the various aspects of people's lives and in this way garner a lot of followers and subscribers. More importantly, they even earn their money with the content they produce specially on platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. So if one can actually look at it from a broader perspective, they're actually playing up a lot with people's minds in order to gain a lot of followers and subscribers.

All the aspects that we need to take into consideration when using any of the social media platforms in our day to day lives. Apart from that, I would also like to highlight the fact that we really need to be careful especially with regards to what we share of our lives on social media as one can never say when this information may be used for purposes which are intended to cause division or destruction of unity in any society!!!