How to Behave on Social Media
In today’s generation, being active on social media isn’t something new. It has become casual and needed. Social media becomes interesting since we can manage to know people from various cultures and personalities. Not only that, we are often influenced by people here and so do we influencing others.
The number of people with different cultures and personalities is high, it brings diversity in many aspects especially in mindset. Netizens always have something to say in purpose expressing themself on the internet, it always leads to pros and contras and takes refuge under freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
Freedom of speech and the right to freedom of expression is used to deliver our ideas of all kinds including those that may be offensive but we have to be responsible and using it right wisely.
How to Behave on Social Media
We have to underline that our behavior on the internet could describe us in person, that’s why we have to know how to control our actions. There are some points we have to remember while surfing on social media:
1. Understand the context that being discussed before publishing your opinion towards it. It can reflect on how we solve a problem by finding the best solution. Think twice before writing down something. Not everyone will accept your opinion but remember to write something you can be responsible for.
2. Don’t attack random people such as throwing hate speech just because having different points of view or interest. Since you are not solely the one who live in a society you have to respect other decisions on how they live their own life. Just because it doesn’t suit your value doesn’t mean it’s bad and vice versa. As long it doesn’t harm others then let them be.
3. Don’t drag people down. we don’t know what they have been through in real life. If you have nothing good to say then remain silent. Take a note that you may hurt others with the words you wrote down, apologizing is the best decision. Besides that, being grateful when there’s a certain opportunity is also good to do to respect other people by saying thank you.
The impact we can take from maintaining behavior on social media
1. Create peace for yourself. If you can build a supportive surrounding on social media it can help you as a coping mechanism from hectic life. During your break time, you can tell all your stories and expressing yourself on social media. The greatest is when you can exchange insight with your mutuals.
2. Prevent bad digital footprint. People nowadays always look for your track on the internet. Sometimes recruiters also consider your positions from the way you behave on social media. You will never know that people you know from the internet going to be your colleagues or those who will help you in real life. This may not be dominant but it does count as your career determinant.
3. A preventive way not to hurt people. The adage once said, what you plant is what you will reap. In today’s years old, so many people have lost something. They could be sad and limp every time. Since being good costs 0 cents, we can use it by giving kindness in any way such as not making the internet become a mean place.
There are so many do’s and don’ts that people see as unwritten rules, but the least we can do to make one of the common communications places a nice platform to be “free” is to conduct a great environment. We can start it by control ourselves to be wise users on the internet.
