Most of the people argue that social media platforms have had notable negative consequences on both individuals and social environment. I totally agree with this idea as these platforms causes lack of attention on individuals and creates societal intolerance.
Firstly, on an individual approach, digital communication platforms reduces the attention span really fast on people people who use them a lot. This situation stems from the fact that on social media, we are exposed to a lot of things that make us interested and all these things are being showed to us in a very short period of time. networking sites use very particular algorithms with AI these days and in fact, the mentality behind these platforms’ algorithms is to make individuals consume more and fast according to what they like. Considering Instagram’s Reels or Tiktok, they offer us a vast amount of information in a very short period of time such as how to cook a delicious spaghetti or gives us some self-improvement tricks. This makes individuals to produce dopamine easily and to watch more reels or tiktoks. In this regard, people get used to attain more information in a very short time and they can not resist to watch or listen something takes time to understand and comprehend. Because of this, a lot of people have been suffer from lack of attention disease, called “adhd”.
Secondly, the negative effects of using social media is undeniable as it causes societal intolerance on social environment. What I mean is, when people connect with each other on these sites, they can immediately reach almost everything about their personal life, career, lifestyle or fashion very fast and this might cause them to feed some negative emotions such as hatred, jealousy or even violence in that society. To be more precise, some videos of refugees and immigrants from Afghanistan and Syria shared on Twitter initiated several protests against them in Turkey and these posts make Turkish society angrier and intolerant day by day.
In conclusion, a lot of people think that social platforms has negative impacts on individuals and society at the same time and I definitely support this idea as it diminishes attention span and creates a less tolerant environment.