The Social Media Experiment is Failing
The Social Media Experiment is Failing

The amount of ignorant posts on social media is appalling.

Social media at its finest. Photo by Tim Bennett on Unsplash

I told a friend at the end of March that the only way I saw the pandemic executive orders ending was if there was a violent revolt.

The difference between myself and everybody else is that I would never post that on social media.

Why? First, simply because it is my personal opinion not even based on any facts, just a feeling. Second, I use social media to post pictures of my latest running adventure, to let people know I love my beautiful wife and to see pictures of places I would love to visit someday.

I just don’t believe social media is the place to be sharing your latest conspiracy theory, damning people you disagree with or airing your grievances.

That is what social media has become and it is destroying the way we agree and disagree with people. It is far too easy to hide behind a keyboard and share your kooky theories than ever before and it is doing great harm to the psychology of how we function as a society.

We will not begin to heal as a nation or a world until we see social media as the tools they were meant to be and stop using them as just another means to divide as societies.

My opinions are simply that, an opinion. A firmly held belief based on strong assumptions of what I see in the facts. My opinions are neither right nor wrong. They are simply an opinion.

Therefore, I restrict my opinions to what I can say personally to another human being who can hear the emotion in my voice, see the sarcasm or disbelief on my face and make correct assumptions based on the humanness of my expressions and voice inflections.

Social media is too jaunted to share personal opinions on, where words are in black and white, where your mood upon reading words determines whether you agree or disagree.

The social media experiment is failing.

Of course, that is simply my opinion and since these are mere words, you will have to decide whether I am being serious or sarcastic.
['Michael Horner']
['Society', 'Debate', 'Lifestyle', 'Social Media', 'Self']