Skip to main content

Social Media Use & Covid-19


Social Media Use & Covid-19


The media is the prime way for us to receive information updates on the coronavirus. We rely on the news and social media outlets to inform us about what is going on within our world today, especially nowadays with the Covid-19 outbreak. We need to pay very close attention to the media in order to keep our society safe. However, what if I told you that social media platforms are not the best way to stay updated on the virus.

According to this article, social media platforms are actually making the spread of the coronavirus worse because they are accidentally spreading misinformation. People are able to write their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on all social media platforms. Social media is all about expressing yourself and what you are feeling in the present time. Today, people are expressing their thoughts and opinions on the coronavirus and how the virus is making them feel. The public on social media is believing these thoughts and opinions as factual information. People are using only social media to get updates on the virus, and the reality is that only going to make things worse. The misinformation on social media is giving people the wrong idea of how to protect themselves and stay safe from the virus. Twitter is a huge platform for misinformation. Twitter gets over 1000 tweets a minute about the coronavirus. Some tweets may include factual information, but mostly they do not. If social media platforms continue to have coronavirus myths and misinformation on their site, it can be very dangerous to society and can lead society to develop more contagious coronavirus cases.

I feel that social media platforms need to promote factual information on their sites. I feel social media platforms can do this by having advertisements about the virus be linked to credible sources so people can click on them and really become informed about the virus and how it is affecting our society. I believe that it is the social media platforms' responsibility to make sure that they promote factual information and try to keep misinformation of their sites. It is their website, so it is their job to encourage people to educate themselves on the virus that has changed our world upside down. I personally believe by advocating factual information to the public, social media platforms could potentially save lives. We need individuals to really focus on only looking at factual information because it is the only way they can guarantee their safety from this virus. Misinformation will only put individuals at risk of getting the virus, then keep them safe from it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2018/03/03/which-social-media-platform-is-the-most-popular-in-the-us/#5223443d1e4e
https://www.forbes.com/sites/helenleebouygues/2020/04/02/going-viral-how-social-media-is-making-the-spread-of-coronavirus-worse/#4596d5a241b2


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Final Exam Post

Positives & Negatives of Technology  Technology is one of the greatest inventions this world has ever seen. Technology has allowed our society to thrive in all different subjects. It has allowed us to learn new ideas and opinions in a split second. We are able to keep up with what is going on in the world around us at all times. Although technology has connected us all together, it has also drifted us apart as well. Technology is permanent, it never forgets your mistakes. Technology allows people to destroy the lives of others with a click of a button. Technology can be both very helpful, but it also can be very hurtful to society. Throughout these two videos, I learned a lot about technology as a whole. Technology was developed to improve mankind. It was made to provide society with a simpler path to commerce and communication. In many ways, it did just that. Technology has allowed some of the greatest inventions,  such as cell phones, GPS, and computers. However,...
Post a Comment
Read more

Breaking Twitter News

Breaking Twitter News On February 3rd, 2019, a massive security incident occurred on Twitter where people's phone numbers became matched to their username, leading people's personal information to be exposed all over Twitter.  A large network of fake accounts hacked into Twitter's API system and matched usernames to phone numbers. This process is known as scraping, in that fake accounts focus on collecting huge numbers of people's personal information and share it all over social media networks. Scraping is highly against Twitter's terms of service. It is completely illegal to gather and access information that way. The fake accounts were linked to several different countries, such as Malaysia, Iran, and Israel. Twitter released a statement tweet on their site that day explaining how they have corrected the issue, and they are going to embark on an extensive investigation to make sure this event doesn't occur again.     These types of scandal...
Post a Comment
Read more

Diffusions of Innovations

The Innovation of Snapchat    Snapchat is a mobile app that allows people to send pictures and videos to each for only a short period of time. It was created and displayed to the public in 2011.  The co-founder of Snapchat, Evan Siegel, created this app as a way to encourage a natural flow of interaction through the use of images. It allows you to have a private person-to-person conversation through the use of timed images. They're all different types of filters you can put on your images in order to make your conversations fun and interesting!    I think the reason, why the idea of Snapchat has caught on and spread quickly throughout the world, is because it gives you the ability to express yourself through a unique conversation. All the different filters within Snapchat allow people to be their real and funny self by not having to take conversations so seriously. The use of the different components on Snapchat caused the app to spreadly widely ov...
Post a Comment
Read more