The internet has offered us a lot of amazing stuff, new technologies and things we could just imagine about. The AI is just one example that how technology with the internet has changed everything. Among many products of the internet, social media one too.

There are many worse things about social media

Social media has become too popular these days. Every second person seems to be obsessed with social media. More than 4 billion people around the world social media site Facebook alone. When it comes to such sites, the content is the most important thing. It will be right to say that social media sites operate on the basis of the content they provide to users. As social sites don’t provide content themselves but the users do, so there is diversity.

The variety of content has also led to uncontrolled access to some stuff that should not have been there. You may have heard of memes and seen them. Internet memes are images which provide entertainment to the users . They relate to some situation which written content. People find memes funny because they are true but highlight the funny side of anything.

Why Are Internet Memes Popular?

Internet memes started a few years back and they will be hardly 5-6-year-old. But these days, the social sites and internet are stuffed with meme content. Even some entertainers earn from such memes. They offer entertainment and fun to their followers. People share them because they find them real.

Popularity and sharing of memes is never an issue unless they are fine. But we have seen the memes getting weird. People become racists, sexist, fascists, and extremists when they create memes for fun. They never realize how bad or damaging memes can be for people.

Why Are Internet Memes a Serious Problem?

The memes carry some message; bright or dark sides of the society, sometimes highlight important issues and at times are offensive. For kids and teens, memes are not suitable at all as they are reported to be offensive. A lot of kids and teens are meme addicts. They spend most of their time looking and searching for memes for fun and entertainment.