Social Media Platform Promotes Fake Personalities: A Survey of Lahore District
It is a significant problem of todays life that social media is all around us and we are addicted to it. On the other hand Social media Platform Promote fake personalities. Some people with diplomatic and fake mind-set use social media apps as a profession just for earning and fame.89.7% respondents say that fake personalities post vulgar content on social media apps. 84.6% said that they are spreading vulgarity which is affecting society negatively. Online survey is done to get results and 92.3% people think that diplomatic personalities are not playing any important or useful part in society. Other results according to this question are also concerning as according to 79.5% people, society do not follow them in real life matters and do not respect them. Both men and women were targeted for survey and it is concluded that diplomatic personalities should be banned or stopped posting such harmful content.
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Social Media, Society, Fake Personalities, blogging, influencers
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(1) Soha Afzal
MPhil Scholar, SMCS, UMT Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Afzal, S. (2018). Social Media Platform Promotes Fake Personalities: A Survey of Lahore District. Global Digital & Print Media Review, I(I), 32-39. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2018(I-I).04
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CHICAGO : Afzal, Soha. 2018. "Social Media Platform Promotes Fake Personalities: A Survey of Lahore District." Global Digital & Print Media Review, I (I): 32-39 doi: 10.31703/gdpmr.2018(I-I).04
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TURABIAN : Afzal, Soha. "Social Media Platform Promotes Fake Personalities: A Survey of Lahore District." Global Digital & Print Media Review I, no. I (2018): 32-39. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2018(I-I).04