Social Media Platforms

[Abu Nur]

Salaam Aleikum,

Most of these Social Media platforms, like Twitter or Facebook, their nature mostly encourage and favor to evil content and behaviour. Most of their content is based on snap judgements of people that procude conjecture that is mostly wrong and defective. It leads to information that is exatly in nature opposite of what Islam encourage.

The questions is this, why some Scholars (and some themselves have an account there) still allow to make account and posts in these platforms in the positive way (spreading Islam etc), when the platform itself naturally and purposly tend to be an malign?

Edited January 16, 2022 by Abu Nur

[Ashvazdanghe]

Salam all types of social media likewise Twitter or Facebook are likewise double  edge sword which their nature is neutral as any tool nevertheless  main owners of these platform have evil nature but these tools can be used for good deeds liewise spreading true message of Islam anyway I think we need a new social media platform which must runs by muslims .

 

 

[Haji 2003]

On 1/16/2022 at 11:41 AM, Abu Nur said:

The questions is this, why some Scholars (and some themselves have an account there) still allow to make account and posts in these platforms in the positive way (spreading Islam etc), when the platform itself naturally and purposly tend to be an malign?

I disagree that these platforms are naturally and purposely malign.

It's like books. The vast majority have dubious content, that does not mean that there is something inherently wrong with the printed word! Your experience of Twitter depends on who you follow, what you choose to read and how you respond. 

For the sake of their own business model Twitter will not start sending you material that you have not shown any interest in and you can use the preferences function to suit your needs.

Twitter has allowed me to get regular updates from health professionals about covid (some of which I have reposted here), in the traditional media such professionals voices have been drowned out by idiots.

[Hameedeh]

My Twitter account is so inactive that I have forgotten my twitter handle; it's somewhere on my About Me page. 

On 1/17/2022 at 6:56 AM, Haji 2003 said:

For the sake of their own business model Twitter will not start sending you material that you have not shown any interest in 

I get 3 emails every day from Twitter asking me to come back. They know I am not using their site. They send me new tweets from people that I clicked on when I first joined. 

On 1/17/2022 at 6:56 AM, Haji 2003 said:

Twitter has allowed me to get regular updates from health professionals about covid (some of which I have reposted here), 

Thank you, Haji! We appreciate this very much! 

[Guest guest]

twitter sends me tweets. They are pretty useless. A person tweets: LOOK AT THIS! and there is a link to an Instagram account. Should I click on that? I usually do not.

[wolverine]

1 hour ago, Guest guest said:

twitter sends me tweets. They are pretty useless. A person tweets: LOOK AT THIS! and there is a link to an Instagram account. Should I click on that? I usually do not.

Obviously the person wants everyone on Twitter to look at their Instagram. Too lazy to post a tweet with real content. 

[Haji 2003]

1 hour ago, Hameedeh said:

I get 3 emails every day from Twitter asking me to come back.

My tweet was referring to what appears in your timeline within the app. It happens but it is rare for me to get material that is totally irrelevant.

[Haji 2003]

On 1/16/2022 at 11:41 AM, Abu Nur said:

Most of these Social Media platforms, like Twitter or Facebook, their nature mostly encourage and favor to evil content and behaviour.

The following tweet has specific instructions showing how users can manage their twitter account so that it is useful for them:

https://twitter.com/aaditsh/status/1491094779605975040?s=20&t=Sf8h3ojJhpzOQT3WimoDQw

[wolverine]

On 2/9/2022 at 2:37 AM, Haji 2003 said:

The following tweet has specific instructions showing how users can manage their twitter account so that it is useful for them:

https://twitter.com/aaditsh/status/1491094779605975040?s=20&t=Sf8h3ojJhpzOQT3WimoDQw

Very valuable. Thank you.

[Haji 2003]

This is a very useful website for use with Twitter. You can use it to identify whether an account on Twitter is a bot/suspicious or not.

https://botsentinel.com

[Haji 2003]

Musk is getting various broadcasters flagged as being state funded. NPR and BBC not happy

I like this initiative of his.

[Haji 2003]

What social media does NOT cover

I post a fair bit here that is sourced from Twitter, where I think it is useful.

But the article below shows the limitations of social media. The article is not about social media, it is about something quite boring, the pension arrangements of a British retailer. Ths DIY store chain went bust and the pension fund for the employees is short of GBP 70m about US$100m. The owners of the business are accused of having drained money from the business in the preceding years.

What does this have to do with social media?

There are plenty of videos on social media of people belonging to a certain demographic stealing from retailers. The people who allegedly took this US$100m came from another demographic. But there'll be no social media videos about this.
 

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The former ultimate owner of discount retail chain Wilko does not expect to have to help plug the high street chain’s estimated £70.2mn pension hole following its collapse a year ago. 

https://www.ft.com/content/c0d83491-6a26-40f2-81d1-3804ee2bb64b