Sharing on social media Vs in real life.
Going through life, it is kind of impossible to walk out of it without sharing at least one thing with others whether it is consciously like simply food or unconsciously like information about our lives. We tend to share things in our lives that we feel might benefit other individuals, Sharing is the action of making others interact with you and enjoy what you have along with you, and morally it would make you a person that is less selfish that is why ever since we were children the first thing they teach us to do is to share our toys in order to make more friends in school.
Ever since social media started, sharing became more popular since one of the main purpose of social media platforms is to share things about ourselves with other people that follow us. Sharing on social media is more self-centered than in real life, users tend to share things about themselves and it is not always because they want to benefit others from it, sometimes it is only because they want to show-off something and brag about it; on the other hand, in real life, sharing tends to always be beneficial to others.
Unlike real life sharing, on social media, we can like or dislike a post shared, but what does it say when we do so? Liking a post your friend shared, makes them know that you agree with them on a certain thing, sometimes liking can turn selfish because for example on Instagram users tend to like someone else’s post in order for them to get likes back, like a business, they are fetching for something whether a like or comment, and when social media started we used to see a lot of people commenting #like4like #follow4 follow which shows how self-centered people tend to be on social media, and that is why it got people to join because the human nature of a human is usually selfish, but they tend to teach us to be selfless ever since we are born that is why they used to teach us to share things with others even if it means we will lose half of the cake that we are eating.
Examples of how users will only like something if they will get the same in return:
Disliking, is another thing ofcurse, when we dislike something that means it is out of what we believe is true; however on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram we don’t have the ability to dislike a post but we users tend to voice their opinion by commenting about their perspective or opinion concerning something they didn’t like. Nevertheless, On YouTube, we have the ability to dislike content that someone had shared which can help a youtuber know whether the content he or she is sharing is worth doing something similar to it again or not because a user doesn’t always have something extremely negative about something they dislike, it could be just that they hated that certain video because it wasn’t entertaining since not everything shared is worth ranting about.
In real life, what we share doesn’t have to go public, you can share an opinion with someone or experience and they could keep it to themselves; however on social media whether your account is private or public sharing or liking something can be seen by many people, if you have a private account then it will be seen by those you accept to follow you; however, that still means many people. The fact that all what we do on social media is out there and not hidden, makes us double think before we post, not everyone does that but most users do. For example, the Logan Paul situation on social media, when Logan shared the footage of the dead body, he had the choice of thinking things through before posting them, since he took the footage, he edited them, looked back at the edit, and then published it. With all that he still managed to press publish not thinking through how public he is until it was too late and everyone went up against what he did because all what he was thinking about at the moment was views, and views for a youtuber means more money.
Video of the Logan Paul situation, and why sharing should be thought through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3K7WD_up74&t=7s
Not everyone has a lot of followers that could make what they say online go to the extreme Logan’s video went, but still users tend to share what they think might get lots of likes and not what people think is beneficial for others.
Moreover, social media sharing can help promote businesses through ads, and by sponsoring YouTube videos, which benefits both the company and the user that is sharing the product. For example, the beauty community on YouTube gets 1,000$ PR packages which helps them make more videos without buying the expensive makeup, yet benefits the company when they get good reviews from that youtuber which make people buy from their company even more, it is a win win situation.
Example of a 5,000$ PR packages that youtubers get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sV70DsMLM
Overall, the sharing experience on social media is very different from sharing in real life, on social media people want what is best for them, they will share things because they think it will give them a lot of likes and views. In real life, sharing is beneficial for the people around us more than it is fro us because you don’t usually share expecting something else in return, you share it to help others out which is something we don’t always have on social media.
