You probably should not believe everything you see on social media. I’ll give you a recent example. About two weeks ago my sister showed me a video on TikTok where a person explained that the moon was missing.
The individual in the video argued that you could no longer see the moon in the night sky. The video then went on to suggest that an asteroid that was caught in the moon’s orbit may have in fact hit the moon. Well gosh.
I guess I missed that breaking news alert. Of course, a few days later while walking outside, I noticed the moon was visible and shining brightly. Crisis averted.
There was no lunar disaster despite what TikTok may be telling us. At this point, it is important for me to say that I’m not on TikTok. But my sister is.
And she loves it. Some of the videos and stories on TikTok, and other social media platforms, are interesting. Some are also informative.
But others are a little hard to believe. Like the moon disappearing. That’s why I worry about the folks who depend upon social media, and only social media, as their main source of news.
Because not everything you are getting on your social media news feed is accurate or even true. Even worse now is all of the fake AI (artificial intelligence) photos and videos that are emerging on social media. It’s tough to tell what is real from what is an AI generated image nowadays.
Call me skeptical, but I don’t always trust social media or technology in general. I’ll give you a few more examples. A week .