The same is true for social media, which is a double-edged sword that has both advantages and disadvantages. However, if seen, its disadvantages outweigh its benefits, be they religious, physical, or social. It depends on the users how they utilize it.

While circumstances and events show that even legitimate users of social media cannot protect themselves from illegal activities, such as parents, children, elders, and women. Compared to men, women are fragile, naive, emotional, and more likely to trust anyone, and are said to have poor intelligence and less understanding, making them more susceptible to social media’s influence. As a result, they are exploited in silence. Modern network technologies and independent platforms such as social media have made this possible. Nowadays, social media has become an addiction that affects everyone from children to old people.
Research has shown that social media use has become an addiction for a large number of people, regardless of gender. A fatwa has been issued stating that online chatting between non-mahram men and women is against Islam. According to some scholars and intellectuals of the Ummah, the use of social media is permissible per se, provided that it does not cause someone to abandon an obligation or commit a forbidden or unlawful act. However, using social media for wrong and illegitimate purposes is illegal and sinful. Since it is dominated by such matters, it is better to avoid using it unnecessarily and for women to use it within limits and restrictions. Women should not use social media unnecessarily for the sake of spending time and entertainment since they are easily seduced by mischievous people, but it is still necessary to avoid illegal and obscene acts.
While social media is useful, it is also harmful and dangerous. The things that are forbidden and illegal for men and women to do outside of social media are also forbidden and illegal to do on social media, and the things that are permissible are also permissible on social media. Protect yourself from temptation and try to avoid negative use of social media, guide it towards its positive use, and use it for corrective purposes.
In the current era, women are spending more time on social media than men. Social media is an epidemic spread by the Dajjal system and affects everyone. It has created distance between spouses, destroyed families, and negatively affected the family system. Through social media, shamelessness, audacity, and indecency among girls and women of the Ummah have increased. Muslim girls are falling in love with non-Muslim boys and running away with them, and the tool behind this is social media. A recent study revealed increasing online violence against girls and women in more than 20 countries, including explicit reporting, pornography, cyber-harassment, and other forms of Internet abuse.
Women often have to face abuse, abusive words, and trolling on social media. Selfish and hypocritical people on social media platforms like Facebook are lonely even with five thousand friends. Surveys show that the ratio of friendship and sexual violence through Facebook is 39% in the world, Instagram 23%, WhatsApp 14%, etc. While social media has advantages, it also has serious risks that cause dangerous diseases later on.
According to a survey, 34% of women are harassed online by men. According to the Women’s Web Studies report, 60 million out of 150 million internet users on social media are women. When a girl posts her words, thoughts, or pictures on Facebook, Instagram, or social media, her thinking is criticized so much that she suffers from depression and sometimes even commits unpardonable sins like suicide. Therefore, it is the responsibility of parents to give enough time to their children so that they don’t waste their precious lives in the name of social media.