Today, the world is becoming globally United; thanks to technological usage of knowledge. Social media for instance, is now the fastest when we talk of information richness and reacherbility. Because, one can communicate with another from far far away with just an MB of data. Texts, pictures, audio and visual files, documents and archives are shared through the use of facebook, twitter, bbm, instagram, whatsapp, wechat to mention just a few.
But, even with the provision of these number of advantages that the social world provides. It add to numerous disadvantages also, both morally, socially and academically.
The negative effect of social media chat on morals cannot be limited to the following:
1. Teenagers are exposed widely to the usage of adult sites and contents.
2. Children of young age are exposed to cautious contents of National and International security.
3. They are exposed to sexual confabulation (in this case the adults are included).
4. Time wasted on phones is 70 times the time wasted in religious places, in classes at school or at home helping parents.
On one hand, the negative effect of these platforms socially includes harrasment of oneself. Where a person of young age will without any hesitation abuse an adult who has given birth to six or five of his same age. Also, the cumulative friends one have might improve or otherwise relegates his social life and experiences.
Gambo, M.L (2016) opined that, the worst part of these social rostrums is on academic, proper usage of language added with poor shit of typing style in the name of shorthand. Spellings like 'lyk instead of like, cos instead of because, tk kia instead of take care, gud instead of good, cmptitn instead of competition, ISA instead of In Shaa Allah, y instead of why, yp instead of yes, lv instead of love, slm instead of Assalamu and Alkm instead of Alaikum and many more are doing great harm and damages than good especially to the growing school children of 21st Century.
With this, stakeholders; such as parents, teachers, clerics and the society in general should do what is necessary in time, to see to these negative effects of social media and the way to curtail the doom it will bring to us in the near future.
Comrade Yusuf Umar Dutsin-ma,
elyusuf212@gmail.com
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