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It is estimated that there are currently just over 4.95 billion Internet users worldwide.
The Chinese platform TikTok today has just over 800 million users worldwide.
Due to the fact that little more than 62.5 percent of the world’s population is on the Internet, it has gained important weight in the decision-making of companies and governments.
The forced social distancing brought with it an accelerated immersion of technology within the new normality, placing smartphones, social networks and digital platforms in the great trend of consumption, an aspect greatly favored by the virality they offer, deteriorating the fine line of physical limitations and allowing Internet users to access all kinds of content and stories. So serve as a means to find people, such is the case of a young man who has gone viral for reporting himself missing while at a party.
In accordance with We Are Social, Digital Report 2022, today just over 62.5 percent of the world’s population is on the internet, figure that shows the importance that a community of more than 4 thousand 950 million Internet users.
Due to the recent community within platforms like TikTokwhich indicates that today it has just over 884 million active users, is how content is rivaled, the same case with Facebookwho has just over 2.91 billion users and has become extremely active and demanding.
In Mexico, the body known as Amber Alert is in charge of publicizing missing minors, while weather searches for missing adults, stays that have pointed out that social networks are nowadays a fundamental tool for the virality of complaints; however, they warn that they play a contradictory role, due to the paranoia that virality can generate.
“He was not missing, he was out partying”
The virality offered by social networks has become, within the current context, a fundamental participant in everyday life, so much so that today Internet users go to digital platforms to solve all kinds of doubts, work and communicate, this due to the virality they offer, such is the case of a young man who went viral within TikTokbecause his family was actively looking for him on networks, while he was having fun at a party.
@hakim_tkmI even fart it went down 😔😔♬ use this if youre gay – alex ◡̎
According to what was pointed out by the same young man after his story went viral through the account @hakim_kmhe was enjoying and “perreando” inside a club, when he began to receive multiple messages and calls on his cell phone, where they warned him that his family was looking for him.
“Me well Felipe “perreando” to the ground when suddenly … I mode bellaco “, heard at the beginning of the video.
Within the video it can be seen that his family and friends began to use the networks to point out the alleged disappearance of the young man, an aspect that shows the double risk that the virality of social networks represents, such is the case of a young woman who was fired after trying to justify a couple of absences due to alleged illness; however, she was discovered by her boss after checking her stories of Instagram and discover that he was at a party.
The virality offered by social networks plays a very important role in routine life; however, these are also double-edged swords, since privacy is lost and the physical and moral integrity of content creators and Internet users are at risk.
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