When young people spend their youth 'watching drama'

Recently, a "hot streamer" (live streaming content creator) had a livestream to answer questions from the online community about his personal love scandal.

Social networks are constantly developing, becoming an ideal space for users' curiosity, crowd mentality, and habits of discussion and judgment to manifest. (Source: Young Intellectuals)

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The livestream quickly exploded on social media with a total of 4.8 million viewers. Notably, at one point it attracted more than 1.5 million viewers at the same time.

A month earlier, a livestream of a "hot tiktoker" (a content creator on the tiktok platform) reporting on charity income and expenditure also attracted about 1.1 million viewers...

Passive information reception

Media practice shows that, influenced by algorithms on social networking platforms, a segment of young users have the habit of accessing information in a random crowd manner.

That is, users do not actively search for news according to their personal needs, but often "encounter" information that is "hot" (hot news), "viral" (spreading quickly) during the process of using social networks, along with crowd effects.

This leads to the public being "manipulated" in the process of receiving information, without a selective mechanism, reduced skills in identifying and processing information; being caught up in trendy information, even if it is not related to themselves, even negative and toxic information.

Why do young people like to "watch drama"?

Social networks are constantly developing, becoming an ideal space for users' curiosity, crowd psychology, and habits of liking to discuss and like to judge to be expressed. Besides, the fear of missing out syndrome can also be considered the reason why young people spend their youth "waiting for drama".

Not wanting to "become a caveman", or fearing that they will miss out on the interesting things in life that others are experiencing, causes many young people to sink deep into the endless maze of information about "scandals" on social networks.

If the public is constantly exposed to “drama, scandal” information, it will negatively affect their perception, psychology, and actions. “Watching drama” makes us lose the necessary concentration, lose connection with real-life relationships, affect sleep, learning efficiency, and work productivity.

Emotionally, we easily feel frustrated, irritable, and have increased levels of stress, anxiety, and pressure. Cognitively, being caught up in a “drama vortex” can easily cause us to lose faith in the life around us, easily become negative about problems, and can lead to depression.

In addition, the fact that a part of social network users "watch drama" too much also causes false rumors and false information to spread uncontrollably.

From here, cyber violence appears when many people, even though they do not know right from wrong, still give themselves the right to judge, adjudicate, use many joking, contemptuous, insulting words, affecting the psychology, reputation, and honor of those involved.

Select useful information

The habit of "watching drama" will make young people get caught up in shocking stories, wasting time following and participating in debates.

As a result, they ignore necessary positive information, social issues of concern, and practical impacts on their own lives.

To avoid affecting the quality of life due to being immersed in "dramas and scandals" on social networks and to become responsible citizens, we need to build the habit of receiving information in a scientific and useful way.

We need to select information from reputable sources, mainstream press, need to have critical thinking, evaluate and analyze information objectively, know how to distinguish between entertaining information, useless information and educational information, reflecting important social issues.

We also need to regulate the appropriate time to use social networks. Instead of just following “scandals”, spend time learning about social issues, learning knowledge from experts, participating in self-development activities such as reading books, playing sports, learning soft skills, short-term professional courses, connecting with friends and groups, traveling or supporting community social campaigns...

Strengthening the role of mainstream media in guiding public opinion

From a media perspective, the state of "watching drama" with unverified information will create a toxic social media space for the public.

This alarming situation shows the great role and heavy but meaningful task of the mainstream press in guiding information and public opinion.

The mainstream press has a strict process of verifying sources and editing, carried out by a team of professional reporters and editors who adhere to professional ethics, to ensure the authenticity of information; while on social networks, any information can be posted and spread.

The mainstream press not only provides information, but also analyzes and comments on information in a multi-dimensional way, in order to provide the public with a comprehensive view of the issue. As for social networks, in many cases, information is led in one direction, following the majority mentality.

Therefore, it is necessary to promote the role of the mainstream press in guiding public opinion, in order to educate, raise public awareness and actions, in accordance with ethics and the law. From there, build a healthy information environment, eliminating false information, fake news, and toxic information.

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