We Must CONTROL Social Media [& NOT Social Media CONTROLLING Us]

 We Must CONTROL Social Media [& NOT Social Media CONTROLLING Us]

Who would have thought NOT extra-terrestrials controlling us but social media ?  That is beyond debate if you let  LIKES & FOLLOWING [and add comments as either an icing on the cake or salts on the open wounds] take over you, so to speak.  Like it or not, social media has a huge impact and while a fraction of it is positive, a bigger chunk of it borders on the negative as it tends to affect our moods and stress levels.  Even that unabated and uncontrollable addiction is further exacerbated by social media too.

To claim that social media has generally uplifted us, be it emotionally or psychologically, is pure and simple baloney.  Tragic stories have been coming out from the news wires the past months and years.  How many Korean personalities ended their lives tragically ?  Blame it on social media.  It's just too hot to handle, even with entertainment personalities having their own PRs, it's just too much to us humans. 

Yeheyyy, FOMO [fear of missing out] is now ten years old since it became part of our lingo in 2011.  Today, it has been pushed to the background. Browse https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3410074/Forget-FOMO-FOJI-MOMO-JOMO-new-anxieties-caused-social-media.html and you'll see that FOMOMO [Fear of the mystery of missing out [hey, how do you react when you drop your phone or the power simply conks out even if the battery is charged]].  Consider JOMO [joy of missing out, that "IDC" feeling and you're just in bed, reading another interesting book. 

or MOMO [that Mystery of Missing Out, you know that paranoia when your friends don't post anything and instead, you start to obsessively search and search for clues, sounds familiar ?]  !  Doesn't that make you look confused, rattled and worst, rudderless ?  Probably, it will help tp peruse Summer Allen's insightful piece @ https://www.apa.org/members/content/social-media-research as he dissects SocMed's growing impact to us.

Before we end up playing a 'trap game', consider drawing a line when it came to being kept into a hook and push comes to shove, DON'T ever throw people closest to you under the bus.  DON'T burn bridged.  Instead, allow the situation to simmer down.  DON'T dip deeply.  Take the bad with the good.  Chalk it up to experience.  And when you're part of SocMed, indeed it's difficult but it comes with the territory.  Sometimes you can end up right into the fire.  Handle it well, dude.  There's no other way. 📌