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Practice Social Distancing with Social Media Too
Info-besity, Misinformation and Stress due to growing Statistics
In the corona times that we live in, while social media helps in disseminating real-time information, it also causes the spread of misinformation, information overload, stress and anxiety following exponentially growing statistics and an unprecedented focus on one issue eclipsing other pertinent matters.
It puts a lot of stress on our limited resources and restricts our ability to make the right decisions.
It is only imperative that we talk more about these issues during such times.
I have focussed on 3 major issues in this article using plenty of examples from around the world and some insights that I have gathered from experts on what we can do to overcome each of these issues.
- Information Overload that breeds fear
- An exponential increase in the spread of Mis-information
- Stress and Anxiety, driven by following statistics
The information overload that breeds fear
There is no doubt about the content explosion on social media with relation to Coronavirus — it has topped as the most searched and researched term on Google.
