Social media help many to communicate and express their opinions, it has helped those who have trouble speaking in real life to have a platform to speak. Throughout the years, social media has expanded and become a huge impact on many of our lives. It has become one of our reliable sources in communication, especially in situations like a pandemic, it helps many to cope and overcome the impact that pandemic caused us all. 

Social media was the only thing that keeps us strong and engaging during tough times. Students were able to presume their classes online while employees are able to work from home. Basically, without social media, it pretty hard to engage with people. Social media is not just for communication purposes, but it’s a media that provides news and information that allows us to expand our knowledge on many things. Without social media, it’s very hard to keep in touch with the real world out there. Most of the news is being shared and reached to people through social media, this is because we always have our thus it is an easier that way to keep updated in our busy day-to-day schedule. You also can learn ways to design your own e-commerce website. It’s not like we have ample time in our hands to watch television news. And plus using social media as a news outlet reduces the use of paper that causes many illegal logging and deforestations and we can save tree and mother earth.  

Enough with mother-earth, back to social media news, if you have been updated you must have known that there are many scammers and catfishers in social media that are ready to trick you into being their victim. It is very easy to fall into the predator’s hands because we usually don’t see it coming. Usually, most catfish happen through a dating app and social media. This is because it is so easy to create a fake account with anyone’s picture and identity for their own personal reason. Not only that, these catfishers most probably expecting something in return or revenge on you, or else they just have huge insecurity, that makes them hide with another person’s identity. Just like Sierra from Sierra Burgess Is a Loser.

So how to avoid being catfish? If you are using a dating app, well you have to be wary of your admirers, use reverse image search of the profile of the person you might have a gut feeling for, asking your friends of the person’s details, whether they knew them before accepting or even chatting with them. You can also do video calls or meet with a new friend of yours sometimes, to even check whether they are a real person. There are also apps that are created by website developers in Malaysia to detect catfishers.  And lastly by using your inner instinct and gut feeling to decide whether the new friend of yours is trustworthy.