A Guardian Angel or A Devil in Disguise

As India bought hit by the deadliest ever well being disaster in 2020 the place a nationwide lockdown befell following full isolation of individuals from the social world. Social media truly performed a pivotal function in bringing individuals collectively just about, bagging on the chance to fill in the void that was created by this nightmare.
But is it the one angle that we must always focus upon? I suppose, there’s a must re-evaluate the function performed by social media in the Covid19 pandemic.
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A Guardian angel:
♦  With a significant a part of the general public staying at residence, Social media advertising has been proved to be the largest instrument for companies prepared to advertise their choices to have interaction prospects with their manufacturers and merchandise.
♦  The consciousness and wellness campaigns to advertise social dialogues, informational and motivational hashtags like #KeepHomeStaySafe, #MyPandemicSurvivalPlan went viral, strengthened individuals to remain constructive and enthusiastic.
♦  It helped individuals to gel up just about making it simpler to speak with out the worry of breaking social distancing legal guidelines.
♦  Guiding individuals via powerful conditions from discovering plasma donors to the provision of beds, the forwarding of social media posts has finished all of it.
♦  Platforms like Facebook, Youtube, Instagram gave individuals the chance to earn and present their inventive aspect to the world from the confinement of their homes.
♦  Social media apps like Whatsapp, Telegram additionally labored as instructional and knowledge-sharing platforms whereas colleges and tuitions weren’t in place. For example- For kids who examine in Government Primary Schools and dwell in areas with poor connectivity, academics launched WhatsApp teams and began sharing examine materials and quick movies to make them perceive subjects higher. Kids have been capable of watch these movies even from a low-cost smartphone with comparatively slower web.
 
A Devil in Disguise:
♦  While Social media was serving to individuals round, it additionally grew to become the supply of faux information marking it as an informational pandemic. Social media platforms have been flooded with corrupted articles, be it ‘The strategy to verify when you have Covid signs’, ‘Home treatments to treatment the an infection’, ‘How to guard your self from being contaminated’, ‘Know the torch bearers of Coronavirus‘ and lots of extra. The rumors of chaos and disorganization demoralized the integrity of people making a scenario of dilemma and uncertainty.
♦  Making a pandemic about any particular faith, caste, or nation, blaming them to be the catalyst for it, was not the rational factor to do. The hatred revealed in the type of social media posts, upsetting individuals in opposition to sure communities, was disappointing and disastrous.
♦  Depression, nervousness, insomnia, desolation have been the prime points confronted by children and even adults as a result of overindulgence in Social media whereas being quarantined. Some used it to share their emotional trauma and challenges whereas individuals with a unfavorable mindset bought discouraged seeing the experiences as a substitute of acknowledging them as a studying expertise.
♦  Whatever nice help that social media supplied through the outbreak, there’s a harsh actuality that It can’t take the place of social gatherings and celebrations the place individuals truly used to spend time with one another moderately than simply seeing one another’s faces via the digital partitions of some video calling facility.
 
Hence, we are able to infer that as each coin has two sides, social media additionally had its pluses and minuses through the outbreak. It’s all about the way you understand issues and accommodate them in your perspective accordingly. Thus, we are able to conclude this evaluation by recollecting an incredible thought by Henry David Thoreau-
“It’s not what you have a look at that issues, It’s what you see”.
 
 
 

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