The Negative Effects Of Blindly Sharing On Social Media

The young girl closes her eyes shut tight. It’s her fifteenth birthday and she is in the processes of making her birthday wish and blowing out the candles. Instead of wishing for a new iPod or hair-do, she asks for the photos of her on Facebook to just disappear. Little did her mother know, those five hundred pictures, of the birthday girl, progressively posted until this moment will always and forever be on social media for every person to see. Internet users are not aware of the harms of sharing on social media, not only to themselves but others as well. I don’t expect the social media addicts to delete their favorite “vent” site, but rather realize the situation and learn to cope with the problem. Excessively sharing on social media creates a detriment to society. When defining “excessively sharing on social media,” most would agree that it would define as over sharing personal information. Unfortunately, society has made sharing on social media a routine act of daily lives. Not only are Internet users sharing very intimate information but also boasting and bragging about the subject. Recently, “blindly sharing” has …show more content…
Facebook started out as a “hot or not” website for Harvard undergraduate students to partake in. A few years after the initial launch, the website transformed into the famously known social networking service that fosters 1.01 billion daily active users (“Stats”). Since there are so many frequent users within the social media community, sharing, posting, reposting, boasting, and bragging is inevitable. Emotions play a significant factor within the information being shared: “The emotional response can be happy or sad, but the more intense it is, the more likely the story is to be passed along” (Kitroeff, D3-L). On the other hand, the egoistic mind of Internet users may be the reason for excessively sharing on social