Ethical Use of Media

What is the ethical use, by the meaning of social media?

It is a basic behavior or guideline that the users on social media should
have while using social media platforms such as instagram or youtube.

--What role? Social media sites provide opportunities for individuals to connect
with friends, family, and like-minded individuals, even across geographical distances.

--Ethical use of social media is significant topic because nowadays many people
uses social media and its important to follow the guidelines and respect others.

Privacy Concerns:

--Social media uses tracking cookies to track users. When users sign in, they need
to agree terms to make the platform collect data.

--However there are many issues in social media such as fake news that may lead to
misunderstand among people.

--One example of ethical dilemmas is copy and paste other people’s ideas without permission.

Mental Health Impact

--Cyberbullying, malicious comments can damage other user’s mental health because
it criticizes the user’s words which is the same as bullying.

--Addiction can lead to severe mental damage. Social media overestimates the brain’s reward
center and making people use social media more and more so those excessive uses can lead to
addictions, sleep problems, and more severe side effects

--To prevent these, users in social media need to ensure all guidelines before using it. They
should take responsibility for the contents they share and comments they add need to be appropriate,
not misleading. (no fake news)

Spread of Informations:

--Social media is a place where people post many global news around the world. They usually tell
new trends that are happening recently. Since every user is allowed to post things in social media,
there are many misinformations such as fake news.

--That misinformations are impactful because it leads to confusion among people to even thinking that real news can be fake.

--Nowadays social media platforms such as facebook, instagram block many contents that lead to
misinformation so that users are exposed to truth and correct information. Also there are many
ad blocking apps that prevent users from seeing fake ads.

Social Relationship and community:

--Positive impact: Allows people to have long-distance relationships because they can contact each other by message.

--Negative impact: As social media allows users to take a look at other people’s lives, it often seems
like an idealized version of reality. This can lead to unrealistic relationship expectations as individuals
compare their experiences to the carefully crafted images and narratives they see online. Text-based communication
on social media lacks the nuances of face-to-face interactions. The absence of nonverbal cues such as tone,
facial expressions, and body language can result in miscommunication and misunderstandings. Innocent messages
can be misconstrued, potentially straining relationships.

--There are many social media etiquettes, such as being respectful to others, and not copying other people’s work.
Being respectful means that in the comment don’t criticize other people and do not cyberbully others. Every user
in the social media platform can see the comment so its important to write respectful comments following the
guidelines so that other users who are reading comments do not feel bad.

Personal Reflection:

--By reflecting on myself, when I add a comment in other people’s post, I shouldn’t spam or write disrespectful comments.

--Steps to ensure your social media use is respectful--
1. Know how to report, block, and filter content.
2. Personalize your privacy settings
3. Pause before you post
4. Use private internet connection
5. Talk to your friends about public posts.
6. Report harassment or inappropriate content
7. Look before you click

Conclusion

--Summary: To conclude, there are many issues around the social media such as fake news, fake advertisement
that can lead to many misunderstand between people. To prevent this, its important for users to know how to
block these. Also many platforms such as facebook and instagram is blocking the outside content to keep users
safe. Furthermore, there are lots of misuse in social media. There are lots of cyberbullying, critizing comments,
and copy and pasting other user's post. To ethically use social media its important to read the gideline and respect
others which is a basic ettiquette people should follow in the internet.

--Social Media ethical guidelines--

1. - Transparency: Being honest about your identity, intentions, and sources.
2. - Privacy: Protecting the personal information of others.
3. - Truthfulness: Avoiding misinformation, disinformation, and misleading claims.

Sources:

1. Data Misuse
2. Social Media and Relationship
3. Social Media Safety
4. Ethical Guidelines