Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Social Media Discipline


We all wish to maximize our careers, our profession, and aspire to be like those who we find most successful. The social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, and even LinkedIn has been used by many smartphone users to portray or present themselves as ideal one though the reality may be different. In social media perception is everything. The perception of ideal-self is quite different from the real-self. Real-self is the attribute, characteristics and personality of a person whereas ideal-self is the perception a person want to be. Perception has no limit. However it is highly influenced from culture, society, environment and the inspiration. Someone may say that perception is an imaginary thing. Agreed, but this greed sometimes makes a person most successful. Sometimes, it causes depression also. This depends on the way of thinking as to how positive he is. A lot of persons full of negativity cannot think positively and that may cause self-destruction. However, the only mantra making perception real is the positive attitude and greed to take efforts for getting something.

While presenting ourselves on the social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, and even LinkedIn, sometimes we do not present real attributes or personality. I know a few persons who have never gone to poor village communities or never fed any poor or never helped any needy person, but by way of doctors photographs posted on the Facebook have got thousands of likes and comments. I have also found recently a post of one politician with doctored photographs of helping Chennai people during flood though it was not a reality. What they really achieve? We create ideal or artificial personality/attribute on the social media for attracting likes, comments, posts fans etc. It may be beneficial for dream world like Hollywood and Bollywood, but in real life it is not beneficial. This gives false sense of boosting self and an inflated sense of who they really are.

In view of above, the following social media discipline should be maintained:

1. You should not compare yourself with others. God has created everybody with unique feature which is not comparable with others. You should understand your quality and capability and this only should be portrayed on the social media platform.

2. You should give all true and authentic information on the social media. If you feel that the information should not be given, you just skip it, but do not give false information.

3. You should be consistent and transparent. Do not just like or retweet  to appease someone. If you do not agree to any post, you express your disagreement with reason in your comment against the post.

4. Do not blindly believe on all posts on social media. Examine its authenticity and source of information.

5. Be positive in your life. Social media tool is capable of connecting you to influential people, who may be helpful in future.

6. Connect to your friends through social media and use the social media to share your thoughts or to obtain thoughts of your friends.

7. Utilize social media for positive discussion but not to spread false rumors about society.

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