If Social Media Is Not The Page That We Should Read to Get Aware then What Kind of Books Shall We Read?

Nadine the seventeen-year-old girl -who turned to Facebook to discover her disease and get the immediate treatment- is now continuing her second year at college. When Nadine started to have swelling in her legs, ankles, feet and unexplained shortness of breath, she firstly thought that these symptoms are normal until she watched a Facebook video for a kidney failure patient who was talking about same symptoms. Right after that, she was admitted to the hospital where she was informed to have the same disease. Consequently, as a result of her early diagnosis she was treated properly for months and now living a normal life.

A story of not falling into the hands of the disease has inspired us to look at the bright side of social media. We are fully aware today that social media is the digital environment where most of youth are keeping their minds. Though, it might have some negative effects on youth, positives are considerable as well. The social media, health, and youth are elements of interconnected network that aims at getting youth aware more about their health. Because health ignorance is always leading into bad destinations, we have to step forward and provide youth with online health related platforms where they can keep taking care of themselves. Health pages on Facebook, groups and communities, awareness campaigns using hashtags and posts, videos on Instagram, YouTube and so many other social media platforms that keep popping up health related information from everywhere, they all have a common goal of educating and spreading knowledge and awareness for chronic social media users. I can’t just stop here and say what a disastrous communicational effects social media has on us and ignore how informative and how much awareness is brought to our lives through it.