The Reality of Social Media (Instagram ,FB etc)

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This is the result of high technology level without morality as the foundation.

Morality is much neglected at schools now. Instead, education looks more like job-training. So what will the kids lacking moral education do with their skills / knowledge when they grow up? Thinking about it really breaks my heart...

 

Agreed. I feel the balance is never leveled, in the past, males tried to dominate over females, and now, several females are trying to dominate over men. The world will be in so much peace when both will get equal importance and respects.

 

Before coming to this community, I thought I am alone in the surrounding to think and is aware about this issue, but I am very happy to prove that I am absolutely wrong Many know this issue, handful of us also discuss about this

 

I think I would say social media CAN BE soft-core pornography. Not all of it is though, and there are plenty of ways you can use social media without it being pornography.

I mean, if you use Facebook was it was actually originally intended for, to connect with your close friends and family, then you shouldn't have a problem with that. If you have a friend who posts triggering things, delete them. Otherwise, you're fine.

And if you use Instagram to follow certain pages you enjoy, regarding your hobbies, that shouldn't be an issue either. When I was on Instagram, I followed mostly book pages, so it's not like people were posting dirty pictures.

But if you use social media just to scroll through random strangers stuff, then yes, that's gonna probably lead you to some problems. That's one reason why I deleted Instagram, because it was such an easy place to find porn. But that doesn't mean social media is porn. It means social media can be used in a bad way, especially when you are an addict, and might be wise to avoid if you need to.

 

I agree that morality is important, but that's a parent's job, not the government's job through the public school system.

Public schools already have WAY too much power over shaping children's minds. They already are teaching kids "morality," or at least their version of what they believe is moral. We need to stop advocating for schools to take over parents jobs even more than they already do. They are already constantly pushing parents out and trying to control your children's upbringing as much as they can.

 

This could be something complicated, but I tend to agree with you that parenting is more important, especially it shapes the children during their earliest stage. (Thank you for mentioning the parents, I neglected them earlier.) As for the power of public schools over shaping children's minds, I am not so sure about that.

In addition, only "teaching morality" isn't enough. I notice that the failure of education stems from the "educators" (both parents and teachers) not being good role models. On one hand, they tell the kids to do something, but on the other hand, they are violating the same rules being enforced. In this way, there is no way the children would be genuinely convinced.

 

I have to use Insta for my job. If I didn't I would just get off it. Same goes for FB, although I enjoy FB to stay in loose touch with friends and family (real ones, not ones I've never met.) I check out 4-5 books a week from the library, too. I don't take this loneliness and isolation lying down.

I guess I'm a "real man." My Pops was a combat vet. I own and use a gun. (shot rotten watermelons Friday early evening!) I drive a truck. I'm pretty successful in my job. I don't complain, don't bludgeon others with my troubles. (Except the suicide hotline when the loneliness gets unbearable.)

Yea, don't put too much stock in those social networks, men. Get out there in the real world and talk to others.

 

Yeah, Instagram I would definitely agree is pretty much just a terrible place for us to be. There is way too much porn on there and it's too easy to just slip into looking at that stuff.

I don't really use social media except for Facebook, and on there my entire homepage is always just posts from writing groups I'm a part of. So that community is really important for me. People help with blurb critiques, beta readers, cover critiques, marketing advice, etc. It's more of a business resource for me.

 

The thing is what appears on that page is due to what you look at. If you were to only look at posts about baseball, lions, and volcano your discovery page will be full of posts related to baseball, lions, and tiger. I don't think you can blame Instagram for what appears there.

Well, I'm glad there's more acceptance of people who are different these days. I'm not the most 'masculine' male myself and have worked with men who say I'm weird because I'm not into cars and don't drink beer. Having said that other aspects of me are stereotypical male like I'm really into sports and I'm reasonably physically strong. I'm glad I have more freedom to be truer to myself. Pretty sure there were people in the 60s who were being forced into gender roles that they weren't comfortable with. I think it's a mistake to look back at the past and think things were better then, every period of time has positives and negatives.

 

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