Social media audit could be essential for peaceful living

The rate at which people make friends and probably foes or stalkers in the cyberspace is amazingly high courtesy of numerous social media platforms.

On any single day when you browse through your Facebook account, you will find yourself befriending people who genuinely adore you and those who just want to be associated with you. My point is, not everyone who calls themselves a ‘Facebook friend’ is really a friend.

The frenzy on the social media platforms has made some social science researchers to hypothesize that ‘social media envy’ could just be another disorder in the offing which can disorientate some people in their daily livin

It is not uncommon to find some people posting every personal issue on social media including when they are falling in love or walking out of a relationship. It is nice celebrating personal conquests and developments with friends offline or online, but only with people who are ‘genuine’.

Of course knowing whether or not, a friend is genuine is a different subject altogether. Quite a significant number of people use social media to keep a tab on what is going on in other people’s lives which they could be doing without the slightest goodwill.

Some of these people will be very keen on how you sound and look in your social media posts including your latest pictures. Their main intent is to know why your skinny high school cheek bones are rapidly getting covered in smooth flesh. Arguably, a lot people tend to get a size bulge when money begins to trickle in steadily. This could be the reason why these people are trailing you in the cyberspace.

Again there are those who post anything and everything just to show they are busy bodies on the social media platforms. The cacophony of posts from these ‘social media friends’ in which you occasionally get tagged could subject you to lose of respect among your family members and work colleagues. This class of social media friends does not really understand ethics and probable limitations of what should go into the social media space.

Take a case of being tagged in a grisly road accident picture just because one of your social media contacts happened to have ‘scooped’ an accident scene. What of being tagged in pornographic posts? Before you lose face just because you have got friends who would throw anything onto the social media platforms, assess your social media contact list.