Over the years, social media has succeeded in creating new groups of people, with “Slay Queens” and those Chris-Vincent Agyapong contemptuously called “Yaanom” being some assemblies of these people.
Arguably, social media is inherently shallow and each of the platforms glorifies a lot of nonsense, equip idle people with a tool to remain busy in their idleness and its equal playing field enables people to rock shoulders with each other, on the back of a widespread false sense of equality and virtual deception.
Of course, the connectivity the various social media platforms such as Facebook offers, if well used, makes significant impacts on the lives of people. Many large and small businesses, as well as groups of people, are thriving, courtesy of the new age of social media. Also, many units of people have emerged to push for common agenda and assist each other—with great end results.
Therefore, social media is a two edge-cutting sword—the platforms can be highly destructive and at the same time, astronomically beneficial. It certainly depends on what the user intends to use the available platforms for.
A few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that she had been added to a Ghanaian Facebook Group, which we later got the name as “Mummihood” without her consent.
And she added that it wasn’t the fact that whenever she took herself out, she was re-added to the group without her consent that inflamed her, but the shallowness and unfettered absurdity of the conversations the group members binge on, which she was being somewhat forced to be part kept infuriating her.

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