Control what you post on social media

SOCIAL media allows users to create and share content with the public.
It encompasses a wide range of websites and apps.
Some, such as Twitter, specialise in sharing links and short written messages.
Others, such as Instagram and TikTok, are built to optimise sharing of photos and videos.
What makes social media unique is that it is both broad and relatively uncensored.
While many social media companies impose some limitations such as taking down images that display violence or nudity. There are fewer limitations on what someone can share than there are with other means of mass communication such as newspapers, radio stations and television channels.
Anyone with internet access can sign up for a social media account.
They can use that account to share whatever content they choose and the content they share reaches anyone who visits their page.
Facebook, the largest social media platform in the world, has 2.4 billion users.
Other social media platforms, including YouTube and Whatsapp, have more than 1 billion users each.
These numbers are huge – there are 7.7 billion people in the world, with at least 3.5 billion of us online.
It means social media platforms are used by one-in-three people in the world and more than two-thirds of all internet users.
Social media has changed the world.
The rapid and vast adoption of these technologies is changing how we find partners, how we access information from the news, and how we organise to demand political change.”
The good outweighs the bad if you think about it if used well – it can be a powerful tool or vice versa.
A lot of Papua New Guineans seem to mistake it for a dating site.
Some things are not meant to be shared on social media.

Social Media Observer