Today, social networks have a special place in people's lives and people spend a lot of time on these networks. These networks have a number of positive and negative effects on the behavior, culture and lifestyle of individuals and society, how can these impacts be managed and to improve society? Is there a technical and scientific solution?
One of the inefficient ways can be content filtering, perhaps this method can be a good solution in the short time, but it has more negative effects over the long time, which is a very complicated issue.
In my opinion, we should not totally believe them unless we check out the truth.
Dawood Mahdi Thank you for your opinion, but how can we direct people to the right direction.
Now a days social networks are devoted every one's life and without a smartphone some people can't live. The awareness of how, where, when, why to use the smart phone and social networks is essential. The young people are the victims of the negative impact of social networks. We can’t simply stop this with help of technology indeed awareness of how to safely use the social networks will reduce this concern.
@Deenadayalan, It is correct that it can not completely eliminate the negative effects of social networks, but there are technology solutions that can be used to reduce negative impacts.
Perhaps you could define a bit more clearly what you regard as positive and, in particular what as negative effects. I have seen many descriptions of supposedly negative effects when what they mean is simply "different." In order to properly define an effect to be negative on lifestyle would require a study over an extended period. I am not aware of such studies just ones that have compared use of social media to non use and assumed in an arbitrary manner that, where differences exist, one is good and the other bad.
In my view, there are some strategies to reduce negative impacts of social media which include individual, institutional, and governmental tactics. For example, suggestions for individual strategies are social media users should remove devices such as tablet phone, tablet, and computers from their bedrooms, turn off phone and app notification, and set time and use limits. Strategies for institutions include training to users about the amount time spending on social media platforms, the content of social media, and other educational matters to prevent negative effects. Finally, companies also can eliminate adverse impact of social media. For instance, alarms that report prolonged overuse on social media sites and the monitoring by social media companies of problematic posts or images .
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All of your solutions are about traning people. Do you think there is a systematic solution?
Trying to focus on the positive parts and educate people about how to use the social networks in a productive way can help
We are looking for systematic and software methods, such as machine learning methods
You may want to have a look at this work: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612004/a-mathematical-model-captures-the-political-impact-of-fake-news/
This, in connection e.g. with evolutionary algorithms to minimize (or maximize, depending on what you want) influence on a social network (I've worked a bit on this in the past), could be a possible solution.
My paper at https://delphi.lexxion.eu/article/DELPHI/2019/1/4 discusses the way we can measure the distance between people on social media.
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