eyinjuege:
It all depends on what you see as an individual.

Do you see the glass as half empty or half full?

Social media has helped some people raise giant businesses. Its saved some people the time and effort required to sort out family issues, its saved a lot of lives too. Its been used to raise money for charities and indigene cases. Its been used to create awareness on touching issues that matter
So many wonderful things about social media.
Its helped to apprehend criminals, its helped to find kidnapped children and their families will forever be grateful to social media.
So many wonderful sides to it.

I agree with you but it doesn't change the fact that there are two sides of the coin. Everything good has a bad side.

I agree with you totally

Bahddo:
Oh, past years matter to us? Ok, tell me without doing any search on the internet, how did people take pics in the year 1917? How were their videos like?

My grandparents also have black and white and sepia pictures. Even some with a bluish tint that they say used to come out of the camera the moment it is taken. If it has effects different from reality, then it has a filter. I didn't fail to recognize my grandparents just because it was sepia or black and white.

It's no different today. Mankind just got more creative. Thanks to augmented reality (Facebook is coming up with something huge), we'd soon be able to take pics with imaginary persons, creatures or even in imaginary places. I certainly don't think that's a bad thing. It's just for the fun of it. There would still be normal pics your future generations can see.

Useless amount of data? I bet you don't know how your great great grandpa looked like. Yet you make it seem that a photo with filters is worse than no photo. Useless is subjective, the fact that a mouse has no need for fins doesn't make fins universally useless.

Indecent pics cannot be blamed on social media. That's down to individual folly and man's obsession with sexuality. I hope you know that far back thousands of years ago when there were no cameras or the internet, people drew or engraved obscene picture on walls. Social Media is just a tool. How you use it depends on you.

You seem not to understand him, social media gives us opportunity to leave too many details of our past unlike the days of our fathers. yes, indecency is not limited to our generation but hardly can you find them common place.
Moreover, everything about some people is on social media, I repeat everything not minding the negative implications if any.

NaijaTechGuy:


I agree with you but it doesn't change the fact that there are two sides of the coin. Everything good has a bad side.

water does not

Ok

NaijaTechGuy:
You don't need to remind me of the article I wrote on how artificial intelligence may end up running our lives. This time It's social media. I'm certainly not technophobic... At least to the best of my knowledge. I don't have to depend on some archaic piece of tech to write my posts. That said, let's get rolling.
Of all the tools available to keep track of the past, social media could prove the most detrimental.

Let's take Instagram for example. Imagine having to explain to your children why an image that was taken in 2017 has the same desaturated colors as the one taken in 1970. The picture is essentially a copy of one they might see from generations earlier, taken by your grandparents and featuring your mum or dad as kids.

The worst is Snapchat...
"Hey Kids, that's your grandma on the night I met her, don't bother about the dog ears, nose, and tongue. Wasn’t she beautiful?.


For thousands of years, humans relied on spoken word as a means to pass stories from one generation to the next. Later, communication progressed to information written on scrolls and rock, audio recordings, and then video. Now, we have the means to preserve each of these in our pocket..

The impact of this is humongous. Each person with a smartphone now has the means to create a historical archive, and can do that with every image, video, or status update.


And aside from all the ways we’re messing up historical archives with dog-eared lenses and Instagram filters, we haven’t even touched on the bigger issue: the massive amount of data we’re leaving future generations.


On Facebook alone, users upload more than 350 million photos a day. Twitter sees around 500 million new tweets daily — that’s around 6,000 per second. And it’s not really the amount of data that's the problem; it’s the lot's of useless information we’re leaving.


I feel bad for future historians that will invariably have to make a proper analysis to get an accurate view of our history.

Op your concerns are somewhat inconsequential and at best illogical.

I don't use snapchat and neither do I post unnecessarily on Facebook and Twitter but I don't see how it's detrimental to the success of the next generation or the next to come.

For me, I think our parents left only as much memories, in pictures and newspapers, as they could afford at the time. If they had snapchat, believe me, you would have grown up to still find those dog eared photos in their albums.

No child will be dumb enough to think mum really had a dog ear. They will be smart enough to know that those are just effects to make memories more fun.

Thanks

babyfaceafrica:
water does not

how many people have drowned??

Afonjafucker:


Op your concerns are somewhat inconsequential and at best illogical.

I don't use snapchat and neither do I post unnecessarily on Facebook and Twitter but I don't see how it's detrimental to the success of the next generation or the next to come.

For me, I think our parents left only as much memories, in pictures and newspapers, as they could afford at the time. If they had snapchat, believe me, you would have grown up to still find those dog eared photos in their albums.

No child will be dumb enough to think mum really had a dog ear. They will be smart enough to know that those are just effects to make memories more fun.

Thanks

You're right to some extent but I'm still not convinced. You're simply a part of the 5% of Internet users who use it responsibly, what happens to the remaining 95%?.. At this point I can't classify my points as invalid or inconsequential.

Bahddo:
Ridiculous post. You took your subjective dislike of instagram and snapchat filters and made a mountain out of it. That's silly.

Don't flatter yourself, in hundreds of years from now, your photos wouldn't even be relevant. Same way most of us couldn't care less what people discussed in the 10th century. The only people who would be remotely interested are historians and other people who wish to study how social media has evolved over time.

The year 2017 wouldn't be relevant either. People would only mention the 21st century, and at times group the 20th and 21st century together.

You seem to underestimate the power of technology. Even right now, technology has made data processing relatively easy. Don't even imagine how it would be in future, when 1 terabyte of data would be to them the way 1 megabyte of data is to us.

Don't pity future generations. They would be just fine with or without your photos, in fact chances are they would do more with augumented and virtual reality. Pity those in the the current generation that believe snapchat filters can possibly ruin the future.

u didn't read the post
You don't understand the post

Poor Write-up

The world always worries about how technology would affect the next generation negatively.

Well, my take is that technology will always keep coming and would radically transform our cultural anecdotes both negatively and positively.

We worried about TV. We worried about computers. We worried about the internet. Now our new worry is social media.

We even worried about how technology would cause massive job losses, but heck there are more jobs today than they were in the past.

I think things would always balance out. The beauty for instance of documenting history as it happens is that facts can no longer be distorted. The facts are documented as they are happening not created after they've happened or conjured 100 years after like much of our myths & legends.

The future generation in year 3050 is not going to feel like some guy called Oduduwa dropped from the sky in 2017. They'll simply check Nairalands history for 2017 and get the facts.

Why can't we bring an educational media that is entertaining as social media and see if they will not key into It
Don't just complain bring solution!

Humanity are created with insatiable blood, when we do not have the means we craved for it,we never have contentment now that we have the way of keeping our history bad and good, the means keep us tracking without biased. Someone had to come up with story that our next generation would ask question, if those myth stories we have at hand today have the opportunities of this means, we won't have contradictory tales as histories .Whatever you wanted to keep as your posterity there's huge megabit for you to keep you going.. Let it be, is better than those days when story were rill out orally, we have no accurate information of our past.

NaijaTechGuy:
You don't need to remind me of the article I wrote on how artificial intelligence may end up running our lives. This time It's social media. I'm certainly not technophobic... At least to the best of my knowledge. I don't have to depend on some archaic piece of tech to write my posts. That said, let's get rolling.
Of all the tools available to keep track of the past, social media could prove the most detrimental.

Let's take Instagram for example. Imagine having to explain to your children why an image that was taken in 2017 has the same desaturated colors as the one taken in 1970. The picture is essentially a copy of one they might see from generations earlier, taken by your grandparents and featuring your mum or dad as kids.

The worst is Snapchat...
"Hey Kids, that's your grandma on the night I met her, don't bother about the dog ears, nose, and tongue. Wasn’t she beautiful?.


For thousands of years, humans relied on spoken word as a means to pass stories from one generation to the next. Later, communication progressed to information written on scrolls and rock, audio recordings, and then video. Now, we have the means to preserve each of these in our pocket..

The impact of this is humongous. Each person with a smartphone now has the means to create a historical archive, and can do that with every image, video, or status update.


And aside from all the ways we’re messing up historical archives with dog-eared lenses and Instagram filters, we haven’t even touched on the bigger issue: the massive amount of data we’re leaving future generations.


On Facebook alone, users upload more than 350 million photos a day. Twitter sees around 500 million new tweets daily — that’s around 6,000 per second. And it’s not really the amount of data that's the problem; it’s the lot's of useless information we’re leaving.


I feel bad for future historians that will invariably have to make a proper analysis to get an accurate view of our history.

In reply to the topic of discussion
Social media is like freedom......... and freedom is a test of maturity and self control after being given

NaijaTechGuy:


You're right to some extent but I'm still not convinced. You're simply a part of the 5% of Internet users who use it responsibly, what happens to the remaining 95%?.. At this point I can't classify my points as invalid or inconsequential.

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Bahddo:
Ridiculous post. You took your subjective dislike of instagram and snapchat filters and made a mountain out of it. That's silly.

Don't flatter yourself, in hundreds of years from now, your photos wouldn't even be relevant. Same way most of us couldn't care less what people discussed in the 10th century. The only people who would be remotely interested are historians and other people who wish to study how social media has evolved over time.

The year 2017 wouldn't be relevant either. People would only mention the 21st century, and at times group the 20th and 21st century together.

You seem to underestimate the power of technology. Even right now, technology has made data processing relatively easy. Don't even imagine how it would be in future, when 1 terabyte of data would be to them the way 1 megabyte of data is to us.

Don't pity future generations. They would be just fine with or without your photos, in fact chances are they would do more with augumented and virtual reality. Pity those in the the current generation that believe snapchat filters can possibly ruin the future.

How can I give u double likes

Sad but true. Social media has succeeded in ruining some people's lives and its still ruining lives continuously. Most users post things they aren't supposed to post on the social media and some users are so addicted to it that it doesn't make them focused on other things that would make them productive. May God help us

webincomeplus:
This addiction to social media is ruining everything. And it's bad for even the economy as a whole.

When paid employees spend more time on social media rather than concentrate on the job they are paid for, their productivity reduces, the employer records less progress and profits than expected. The ultimate result? Employers are forced to lay off employees just to stay afloat.

Now, before some skunks read shitty meanings into my words, I've not said social media addiction is the only reason for increased loss of jobs due to dwindling fortunes of employers. But it sure is one of the contributing factors.

In addition, Nigerians would be better off if only they can cut down on the hours spent on "slaying", "calling out", "reacting", and doing all sorts on social media. If only they could channel that time into brainstorming for innovative business ideas that can better their fortunes, that would not only grant them financial independence but also create jobs and improve the economy.

You think Nigerians spend too much time on social media?...then you've not been to China or even America. Nigerians are learning.

So according to your ten kobo logic, social media will distort history

smh

Joavid:
So according to your ten kobo logic, social media will distort history


smh

Ten Kobo Logic you call it. Seems like you're one of those slay queens on Facebook. If you read the post properly you'd have something meaningful to contribute . Don't waste your data bandwidth.

NaijaTechGuy:


Ten Kobo Logic you call it. Seems like you're one of those slay queens on Facebook. If you read the post properly you'd have something meaningful to contribute . Don't waste your data bandwidth.

may your assumptions keep you warm and cozy. cos it can't get you no where.

Mshewwww

Grrat Topic. But not well articulated. Judging from peoplea comments... they are missing the point i believe.

Question really is what has being the impact of social media on humans level of societal decency and what is the impact for future generations. Also, is social media a civilization tool or a westernization machinery for disguised 2nd colonization?

NaijaTechGuy:
You don't need to remind me of the article I wrote on how artificial intelligence may end up running our lives. This time It's social media. I'm certainly not technophobic... At least to the best of my knowledge. I don't have to depend on some archaic piece of tech to write my posts. That said, let's get rolling.
Of all the tools available to keep track of the past, social media could prove the most detrimental.

Let's take Instagram for example. Imagine having to explain to your children why an image that was taken in 2017 has the same desaturated colors as the one taken in 1970. The picture is essentially a copy of one they might see from generations earlier, taken by your grandparents and featuring your mum or dad as kids.

The worst is Snapchat...
"Hey Kids, that's your grandma on the night I met her, don't bother about the dog ears, nose, and tongue. Wasn’t she beautiful?.


For thousands of years, humans relied on spoken word as a means to pass stories from one generation to the next. Later, communication progressed to information written on scrolls and rock, audio recordings, and then video. Now, we have the means to preserve each of these in our pocket..

The impact of this is humongous. Each person with a smartphone now has the means to create a historical archive, and can do that with every image, video, or status update.


And aside from all the ways we’re messing up historical archives with dog-eared lenses and Instagram filters, we haven’t even touched on the bigger issue: the massive amount of data we’re leaving future generations.


On Facebook alone, users upload more than 350 million photos a day. Twitter sees around 500 million new tweets daily — that’s around 6,000 per second. And it’s not really the amount of data that's the problem; it’s the lot's of useless information we’re leaving.


I feel bad for future historians that will invariably have to make a proper analysis to get an accurate view of our history.

NaijaTechguy, don't worry about how the people from the future will view our present activities because the future will be so so so weird and insane, it will make this particular time we are living now seem completely normal and sane

Admin401:
NaijaTechguy, don't worry about how the people from the future will view our present activities because the future will be so so so weird and insane, it will make this particular time we are living now seem completely normal and sane

I totally understand.

Joavid:


may your assumptions keep you warm and cozy. cos it can't get you no where.

.. Sure it certainly will. ... Ten kobo girl

Frankcastle:
Grrat Topic. But not well articulated. Judging from peoplea comments... they are missing the point i believe.

Question really is what has being the impact of social media on humans level of societal decency and what is the impact for future generations. Also, is social media a civilization tool or a westernization machinery for disguised 2nd colonization?

Totally on point Bro..

JeffreyJamez:



You think Nigerians spend too much time on social media?...then you've not been to China or even America. Nigerians are learning.

And you want to compare Nigeria to those countries economically? You want to compare unemployment rates in Nigeria to theirs?

Mind you, people in those countries know what they are doing and are self-disciplined. I was recently conducting Google keyword research, and I was surprised at the number of US searches for "How to overcome smartphone addiction". Now, those are self-disciplined people who know how to check themselves when they are taking things too far (and that's why many people in America are still not using smartphones). Are Nigerians like that?

NaijaTechGuy:


I totally understand.

Yeah, people are going to be begging to come back to this time after learning how to upload their consciousness into machines, or utilizing trans-humanisim, lol, they are simply going to want to feel more humane like us. thank God i was born in the middle of both our Violent war based past and the inescapable destructive future.

webincomeplus:

And you want to compare Nigeria to those countries economically? You want to compare unemployment rates in Nigeria to theirs?

Mind you, people in those countries know what they are doing and are self-disciplined. I was recently conducting Google keyword research, and I was surprised at the number of US searches for "How to overcome smartphone addiction". Now, those are self-disciplined people who know how to check themselves when they are taking things too far (and that's why many people in America are still not using smartphones). Are Nigerians like that?

Self Deciplined people indeed. Have you heard about the "Sucide Challenge"?. You should Google it. I repeat Nigerians are learning when it comes to social media addiction. So save me that sermon of our social media addiction is why the country is the way it is. The country has been like this since 1960 before the rise of Social Media.