What Are You Really Sharing?

For many people, they simply don't want you to have an opinion, unless it's in line with their own. It's a sad truth unfortunately, but that's just how many people operate. Unless your beliefs, opinions, views, and even your behavior and actions, align with theirs, you'll find that many people will arc up big time. Rather than being respectful in having a difference of opinion, or just accepting that every one of us are unique and different in our own way, for some unacceptable reason, people become offended. In response, they criticize, they belittle, they mock, they ridicule, they get defensive, they get angry, and they even get personal. Prior to this age of technology, this might have been a disagreement that broke out in the street, or at a pub, or maybe at a workplace, erupting into a brawl or verbal stoush. Although this still happens, the most common form of these disagreements now take place online. Social media has become the ultimate platform for people to, not only express their views, beliefs, and opinions, but to also be able to criticize, ridicule, belittle, bully, and verbally abuse others, who don't agree with them. The most appealing aspect of this, to people, is that they can hide behind their keyboard in doing so, and not have to personally confront people. It's like social media has become the perfect outlet for people to take out their life's frustrations and anger, even if that is at the expense of others. Then we have those who love to use social media like a diary. If they had a bad day at work, or they hate their boss, or they hate their job, or they broke up with their partner, or if they personally don't like someone they live near or work with, or if they just want to have a whinge about how they believe that life is so unfair, and that their life sucks, social media becomes their saving grace to release all their negative feelings and emotions.

Whether it's to express our thoughts, views, beliefs, opinions, anger, frustrations, hurt, or any other emotions, we really need to take a good hard look at ourselves, to comprehend how we are really using social media, but also, what good we are genuinely doing, if any. We are all human, and we all have feelings and emotions that build up inside of us, that we so desperately want to release, to get off our chest, but social media should never be the place to do so. Let's be honest, the only reason we use social media in such a way, is as a form of attention seeking. Whether it be to gain sympathy and compassion, or to feel comfort in someone reciprocating with our situation or thoughts, or to seek reassurance that people love and care for us, or even just to trigger a response from people, with the aim to debate a view or topic, it's all about gaining attention to ourselves, nothing more. What are we really achieving out of this though? Sure, we may feel a sense of relief in being able to air our views, thoughts, and emotions, but the truth is, all we are really doing is spreading negativity, and inciting others to oppose and debate us. Sometimes, there may be a certain topic or belief that we are wholeheartedly against, and in sharing our views and opinions on social media about it, we are in fact only giving more air time to the exact thing we are against. We fail to realize that, as we are so caught up in our own emotions.

Social media was originally designed as a platform for friends, family, loved ones, and even strangers, from all around the world, to communicate with, share photos with, and connect with. Over the years, it's become more of an advertising platform, but the worst part, it's become the perfect outlet for bullies and opinionated people to tear others down. Imagine if we made a simple, yet positive change to the way we used social media. Instead of using it like a diary, what if we used it to promote exactly what more people need in their lives right now, not to mention ourselves? I'm talking about happiness, inspiration, motivation, encouragement, support, compassion, love, care, generosity, and kindness. Rather than using it for negativity, what if we used it to uplift people instead? Imagine how different the world would become. One of the actions I have taken over this past month, is that I have started posting motivational quotes on my personal profile. All this time, I have been using this business site, and the business site's social media pages, to motivate, encourage, and inspire others, yet I wasn't even doing it on my own personal profile, to do the same for my friends and family. Some have confused certain quotes to be about my personal situation, some have chosen not to respond, but there are others who have been appreciative of what I have shared. It's been a positive action for them, and it only takes one person to have such a positive impact on, to make a huge difference. So think about it. What are you really sharing on your social media pages? Are you making a positive impact on others, or are you tearing people down, and spreading negativity? Are you using social media for good or harm? Prove to yourself that you are in control over your emotions, that you are not going to allow anger and frustration to get the better of you, but instead, you are going to seek how you can uplift others, especially when there are so many people worldwide who desperately need that uplifting right now.

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