The Impact of Social Media on Culture Change

The Impact of Social Media on Culture Change
Social media has proliferated over the past few years, providing a solid platform for people to connect, share material, and express themselves regardless of their geographic separation (Chatyoka, 2018). It is thought that social media websites first appeared in 1994. Since then, they have grown significantly, inspiring the creation of several networking websites, including Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Skype, Tumblr, and LinkedIn. As a result, new cultural paradigms have emerged, influencing business, technology, and changes in how people interact (Engel & Lee-Davies, 2019). However, numerous studies have demonstrated that social media is a double-edged sword that has many positive and dangerous adverse effects. The complex whole that encompasses knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and other skills and habits a person develops as a part of a society has been described as culture (Acar, 2014). Furthermore, social media is thought to have altered most people's behavioral patterns, leading them to emotional, spiritual and psychological dilemmas.
First of all, it has robbed many people worldwide of the security and faith they had in one another in previous years. As a result, many people are turning to online relationships for assistance in their physical, emotional, and social lives. As a result, many people have become antisocial (Amedie, 2015). Most individuals today like texting on their phones and internet chatting over face-to-face interactions. Because of this, many people have found themselves in emotionally demanding circumstances. For instance, a medical student from Zambia was detained for making fraudulent accounts on Facebook with a profile photo of a white man to defraud married ladies (Chatyoka, 2018). He would ask women to send them their naked pictures, which the student would use to threaten them through a different Facebook account with a female profile picture stating that it is her wife. Based on this scenario, it is clear that people have turned their trust to strangers, which is opposed to the traditional cultures where people trusted people who were physically close to them.
On the other hand, it is trespassing domestic life since the lines between work and home are getting blurred (Chatyoka, 2018). Studies have shown that many workers globally are now finishing most of their work at home hours, such as checking emails and other electronic duties that they did not manage to finish and their workplace. This has played a significant role in destroying the traditional human contact and personal relationships between the parents and their children or spouses. Recent studies have shown that increased use of social media leads to social media addiction which is affecting many family relationships (Mondal, 2018). Some factors such as jealousy have risen by more social media usage. Partners become upset when they see their partners liking or commenting on other people's posts on Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat, making it look like they are cheating them with that person (Bouffard et al., 2021). Also, its high distraction makes the couples and parents have less time to spend together. Although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has not consid...