Fake news
Appear as legitimate news or stories that are widely spread and presented to deceive/misinform and mislead readers who might interact with it.
examples:
Now these two examples may seem real and harmless to you. But no the both of these are fake news. It is really scary and unreal how it is so easy to create a fake news.
Luckily you can spot fake news in many ways. This site will take you to an infographic on how to spot fake news.
Policy
according to cybercrime prevention act of 2012 ( republic act no 10175) anyone who spreads fabricated information by the use of information and communication technology systems are to be considered illegitimate and punishable by law. Could also be fined in a range of 40,000php-200,000php.
Advocacy
We should always fact-check the news we see online or on social media to see if it is true. How should someone do a fact-check? It can accomplish this by looking up the news and reading a reputable source. Additionally, we should keep in mind only believing reputable sources when looking for news—for example, the GMA news, ABS-CBN, Manila Bulletin, Inquirer, and many more.
Effects of social media
Connecting with the internet or social media might help us to boost things and give us advantages as we start our daily lives. Most of us enjoyed being on the internet as some learn new things and might experience truly exciting activities that are created and presented for us. But within those hidden smiles, some users developed anxiety, depression, isolation and FOMO.
Disadvantages and Advantages of Social Media
Disadvantages
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Connecting with the internet or social media might help us to boost things and give us advantages as we start our daily lives. Most of us enjoyed being on the internet as some learn new things and might experience truly exciting activities that are created and presented for us. But within those hidden smiles, some users developed things that clearly became one’s disadvantage by using social media
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Addiction to social media- a small amount of people are somehow addicted to social media, it is where they behave as they give importance to their social media life. Being devoured by having an uncontrollable urge to use it. They develop the thing called FOMO as they check their phone every minute
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Cyberbullying- terms of being bullied that affects someone’s mental health. In that way, users developed anxiety, isolation, depression and more.
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Someone can pass through your info- being in social media is a hard game, you never know if someone might already have your personal information that you would be left with no privacy.
Advantages
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Global Connectivity - it enabled us to connect to all the people in the world. Through this we can talk to our family relatives that are out of the country.
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Excellent tool for education - as it is possible to connect through are instructors. And here we can discover different social media platforms we can use in order to enhance our digital creative skills.
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Make content awareness - creators can post videos about making awareness about some diseases. And also people can show support in those awareness videos
Policy
as for republic act no 10175, cybercrime act of 2012 anything that has to do with cybercrime is to be punishable by imprisonment. Any crime related to information communication and technologies system are to be counted as a crime and to be sentence by having a fair of maximum 200,000php
What we can do
We established a time limit for using social media. By doing this, we can increase our productivity and reduce our use of social media. Because excessive social media can make us feel many different emotions, it can reduce our productivity and cause us to spend the entire day scrolling through social media.
Content that isn’t age appropriate
Age-appropriate content should be about restricting particular ages in such posts, news or content that needs parental guidance. It might affect someone's behaviour as they are influenced by what they see on social media.
Policy
Republic Act no 10175, cybercrime act of 2012, says anyone who commits crimes(age-inappropriate crimes) through information and communication technology systems is punishable by imprisonment.
Advocacy
to establish parental control as they are the one that should guide their children from things that are inappropriate mostly by this issue. Also for other contents to put warning as they knew that social media is full of different people.