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    Social media has polarized society by amplifying differences between rigidly opposing groups and exposing users primarily to viewpoints matching their own through personalized content. This occurs as social media contains paid, fake, and politically motivated posts that influence opinions, and people share content without considering consequences or join online communities solely for membership. However, social media can also expose people to diverse views through thoughtful analysis. To prevent polarization, platforms must promote diverse views in personalized feeds and limit extreme content, while users take responsibility for open-minded posting and not spreading misinformation.

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    EASSY

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    Social media has polarized society by amplifying differences between rigidly opposing groups and exposing users primarily to viewpoints matching their own through personalized content. This occurs as social media contains paid, fake, and politically motivated posts that influence opinions, and people share content without considering consequences or join online communities solely for membership. However, social media can also expose people to diverse views through thoughtful analysis. To prevent polarization, platforms must promote diverse views in personalized feeds and limit extreme content, while users take responsibility for open-minded posting and not spreading misinformation.

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    Social media has polarized society by amplifying differences between rigidly opposing groups and exposing users primarily to viewpoints matching their own through personalized content. This occurs as social media contains paid, fake, and politically motivated posts that influence opinions, and people share content without considering consequences or join online communities solely for membership. However, social media can also expose people to diverse views through thoughtful analysis. To prevent polarization, platforms must promote diverse views in personalized feeds and limit extreme content, while users take responsibility for open-minded posting and not spreading misinformation.

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    Social media has polarized society by amplifying differences between rigidly opposing groups and exposing users primarily to viewpoints matching their own through personalized content. This occurs as social media contains paid, fake, and politically motivated posts that influence opinions, and people share content without considering consequences or join online communities solely for membership. However, social media can also expose people to diverse views through thoughtful analysis. To prevent polarization, platforms must promote diverse views in personalized feeds and limit extreme content, while users take responsibility for open-minded posting and not spreading misinformation.

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    Social media platforms gave voice to common people and empowered many. But there is
    also a negative side to it. Due to several posts in social media, these days people
    are rigidly divided into 2 groups with completely opposing views for many issues
    such as politics, communities, social issues etc. Because of this, many are of the
    opinion that social media platforms are fueling polarization and extremism in
    society.

    Social media is a powerful tool that can connect people, share information, and
    create communities. However, it can also have negative effects on society, such as
    polarizing opinions, spreading misinformation, and increasing intolerance. In this
    essay, I will discuss how social media is polarizing the society and what can be
    done to prevent it.

    Yes – Social media is polarising society:


    Social media doesn’t contain just original content. It contains several types of
    content such as paid news, influences trying to promote things for money, fake
    news, hate speeches, politically motivated posts etc. People get affected by what
    they watch, see and listen to in their daily lives and hence social media is
    influencing common people to form opinions on several issues. These days we are
    frequently witnessing content in social media that is evoking strong emotions in
    public.
    Unlike before, now people are more rigidly divided into 2 groups that are
    completely opposite in their views. Social media posts tend to amplify the
    differences between those groups.
    Even though social media platforms contain posts on diverse views, in general, they
    show personalised content to their users. In personalised content, most of the
    posts contain viewpoints similar to theirs. So, this is making people be even more
    opinionated and rigid
    in their beliefs.

    Some people are just doing whatever their group/community does or think they do
    because for them membership in the community is important. So, they are sharing
    posts that they think their community believes in.
    Some people are sharing content and making it viral without thinking about the
    consequences. And viral posts are making it to headlines in traditional media such
    as newspapers and influencing the opinions of even those who do not follow social
    media content.
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    No – social media is not polarising society:


    Social media platforms gave the opportunity to the public to listen to the other
    side and also the opportunity to have a healthy discussion. In fact, several people
    read diverse views through social media content and are forming their opinions
    through thorough analyzation. This is helping many to have a moderate point of
    views.

    It depends on people rather than social media content. People who think well do not
    fall into the trap of hate speeches and politically motivated posts.
    How to prevent polarization in society:
    Social media platforms should take responsibility and should take steps to prevent
    extreme views from displaying in suggested content. They should minimise its impact
    and need to take steps to show the content of diverse views in personalized news
    feeds.
    People also should take responsibility for what they share. Creating awareness and
    empowering people is also the need of the hour. Movies on how fake news,
    politically motivated content affects society also works in creating awareness in
    public.
    Conclusion:
    social media websites have the responsibility to promote a healthy atmosphere. They
    should show diverse views. And people also have a responsibility to be open-minded
    in posting content online and also when replying to others’ point of view. We need
    to create awareness in the public that not all social media posts are from common
    people and there are different types of content such as fake news, paid news, hate
    speeches and politically motivated posts etc. We all should work to minimise this
    negative consequence of social media platforms while utilizing them to our
    advantage.

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