SOCIAL MEDIA ETIQUETTES

                      SOCIAL MEDIA ETIQUETTES

    Over the years, social media has taken over the world. Social media are interactive digitally mediated technologies facilitating the creation and sharing of but not limited to information, ideas, career interest as well other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. Some of the most popular social media websites with over 100 million registered users includes Facebook and its associated Messenger, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Reddit, Viber, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, Quora, Telegram, LinkedIn, Wechat and the list is inexhaustible based on the part of the world in which you find yourself. 

    Observers have noted a wide range of positive and negative impacts of social media use. Nonetheless, social media can help to improve individuals, companies and brands. People’s lives have been changed for good through social media. However, others reputation has been tarnished so bad that their whole life has become so messy. 

    Social media etiquette refers to the guidelines that companies and individuals use to preserve their reputation online. In the same vain as social etiquette dictates how people behave around others in the real world, social media etiquette revolves around online guidelines to follow. These days a lot of people do not even have the common courtesy to respect others privacy. So many people turn to defeat the purpose for social media. Savor some do and don’t of social media least you get corrected in a bad way.

DO                                                                                             

Control your hash tags

Check well before clicking send

Make sure you are in a right frame of mind before responding to anyone

Distinguish between messages that are meant for public and private consumption

Be authentic and genuine as our lives are considered a reflection online

Respect the opinions of others

Check and verify before sharing contents

Engage in discussions on your contents

Use trusted sites and services

Protect your identity

DON’T

Use social media to spread hate speech

Use social media to cause chaos

Use social media to bully others

Use social media to defraud others

Respond in a disrespectful manner

Be a robot, post and disappear

Feel obligated to follow or friend anyone

Post certain private things of yourself or individuals unless you are sure

Download from questionable sources

Incite violence

MAAGBOR WELISANE