Social media influencers want fame, subscribers, likes and followers. I can understand as it is their job. I am not like this. COVID made people use social media more, but now it is having an effect where many people want likes, followers and subscribers and if they don't get them it is having an effect on their self esteem and can they inflict this faulty psychology of why it is needed on others sometimes too. If somebody reads something if interested that is what it is meant to be for, but basing self worth on likes and follows is faulty.
Then you can get people who make themselves a spokesperson for something when they are not trained for the role and can do harm, such as Skinny social media influencers who give faulty information about dieting and vulnerable people can stumble on this. Children too can do copycat things which they learn from online that are dangerous to do in the real world. Such was the case of a 17 year old who murdered three young girl's triggered partly by being influenced online. You can see the case from the following link.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/mersey-cheshire/news/teenager-jailed-killing-three-children-dance-class-and-trying-kill-ten
Then with some people it is hard to read their motives why are they sharing, go with your instincts. I do this freely.
Schemes are growing to about faith. Wanting to get rich from God and God to intervene in your business accounts. For me my faith is about comfort and not material wealth and Jesus said that he would offer comfort and not material wealth in John 14. You can see this need for material wealth through faith on social media a lot now.
Remember idols of the heart and we should guard against them. Try to have a spiritual world view and not wordly.
Like I wrote, the internet can have good and bad elements, but we should always be careful of following the herd and not the voice and path of Jesus Christ.
Let us put back into this earth and others and take care of it as God asked us to do and reflect and take breaks the internet if you need to.
