5 Urgent Things to Consider Muslimah On Social Media
Prolog
No doubt, more time passed more sophisticated technology, progress is shot so quickly, what was unthinkable even perhaps an impossible thing 10 years ago on this day became the norm. One of the technological advances that we feel today is social media a communication access which can connect us to the other so quickly, no matter any country, coupled with a relatively low cost.
Smartphone and various types of gadget no longer becomes a matter of luxury and privilege, has become a mandatory item for almost everyone, even small children ages kindergarten, school dasarpun already have it. Positive impact of technological progress is certainly very much at all, but no doubt also negative impact.
In the discussion of times Insyaallah we will discuss the ethics and etiquette of taking social media by Muslims, Speed of information spread is one of the benefits of social media, communication via text, visual and video more easily into two blades for Muslim women, could be as the goodness but no doubt also be as asbab ugliness.
For that we will share 5 social media ethics and etiquette for Muslim women:
1. Make friends and hang out with the good
Just as in the real world, the world mayapun we have to make sure we were friends, build a network with just the good things, follow the invite to goodness, and that increases our piety and faith in Allah.
Call it social media Facebook, one of its features is a friendship, status updates, sharing and comments. Well post from our friends will certainly influence the way we think, especially if read continuously, to build interaction with it either via comment, like and share them participate. If the posting contains things postive call it like to share advice kindness, sharing vital information would not be a problem, but if postingannya contain personal grievances, curhatan problem, vilify others, spread the word hoax of course this will affect also the mindset and behavior of our ,
2. Take care of yourself and do not post personal photos on social media.
One of the characteristics of social media users is to always inform private activity that is uploaded through photos on social media. Language jock is "selfie" and not about may not be halal or illegitimate selfie this, but that should be the primary record for a Muslim is to be careful in being themselves and also help men to subdue his view, do not get because of your picture into the path of sin for men to see. Unless you can make sure men will not see a picture of you and, if view would not be interested and cause syahwatnya.
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3. Make sure the truth of a story before spreading it.
"O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you bringing a message, then check carefully, lest you afflict a disaster to a people without knowing the circumstances that cause you regret what you did". (Al Hujurat: 6)
Almost every social media features to share information with other users call it broadcasts for Blackberry users, Whatssapp and Line, no clicks for the user SHARE facebook, twitter and retweet to users "tag" for instagram users.
One of the human instinct is to want to share information that she's attractive, feels proud when she became the first person to spread the information to their friends. Wrong it is when origin disseminate information without notice and corrects the first truth.
For example, in the BBM Broadcast often circulate about "Grandma coming right at 12 am ,,, blaaa..blaa..blaa..blaa, in the end with a command shall forward these messages if it is not passed then the house will be visited by the grandmother", or may spread broadcast worship on behalf of the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad without any explanation of its history, many outstanding examples of broadcast which invites to read a prayer with a specific count and at a certain time.
On facebook maybe our hands is very easy to press the share button when seeing a headline which we think is very important, as well as provoking the permusahan, and unfortunately again, most of us also press the "share" button without first reading and understanding the contents. Be careful because every deeds we will be held accountable, including dissemination of information or news.
4. Do not forget the time
Until now, social media into a monster killer time no.1, try to evaluate and calculate how much time we spent on stalking things that are not useful disosial media, kepoin status, photo stalking people, debating things that are not important, vilify and offending people on social media.
Do not let our time is up disosial media without things that are useful, please feel our time is up disosial media that are disturbing or dereliction of our main activity, lest we run out of time disosial media and neglect our worship be it mandatory or the Sunnah.
5. Make use of social media as a way and means kindness
Make it was social media as a means of goodness, remind each other through our posts, share positive things good again, and may also be made of social media as the lawful and good fortune for us. Check out there how many show up those who can meet the needs of sustenance only by making use of social media to sell.
Yes, that's five ethics and etiquette in social media for a Muslim, may be useful and hopefully be able to make friends all social media as a way of kindness.
