WHY DO SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS DANGERS?
The toxicity is not in social media, but in how minds use it. The Misplaced Blame. It has become a habit in the modern world to blame social media for our problems. People complain about Instagram being fake, TikTok being shallow, YouTube being misleading, and X being toxic. But if we dare to look deeper, we might see that the problem isn’t the tool—it’s the hands that hold it. Social media doesn’t create confusion. It magnifies it. It doesn’t make people shallow. It exposes what was already weakly formed inside. The average person opens their phone, scrolls through their feed, and ends up angry, jealous, confused, or afraid. But the platform didn’t plant those emotions. It simply brought them closer to the surface. We must stop blaming the screen and start questioning the mindset of the person behind the screen. The knife never chooses how to be used. It can cut fruit or hurt someone. It’s not the knife—it’s the hand. The same is true with social media. The toxicity ...