Greetings, friends, welcome to initiative number 22 of Esa Vida Nuestra that is developed in the @holos-lotus community. On this occasion I bring up a topic that I hope gives you a lot to write about.

Tell me your anecdotes, experiences, experiences, or reflections, regarding this aspect of daily life, which brings us so many problems.

I will start by telling an anecdote, this is a story that happened to my daughter @lilianajimenez: a few years ago, she was in a queue, one of those that we had to do for different reasons, there were many people, suddenly a There is a commotion further ahead and she calls her brother's mother-in-law: "Mrs. NANCY, COME ON", suddenly a voice comes out from the back shouting: "OH, AN ACCIDENT." My daughter immediately intervenes and clarifies that there is nothing like that.

The anecdote remained in the family, and I remember it because it illustrates very well the inclination that exists to spread false information. This has increased, thanks to the use of digital technology, which allows hoaxes or erroneous news to spread indiscriminately.

What leads people to believe in offers, advertisements, lies and, even worse, spread them? Sometimes it is thought that it is an attitude of someone who does not have some type of academic preparation, but this is not always the case, on many occasions, the one who gets these balls rolling using networks, WhatsApp and even ordinary conversation, is someone with university studies.

Seeing is believing

There are those who are not easily fooled, they doubt, they verify the information with other sources and, when the message reaches them, they stop it, deny it or ignore it, but they do not lend themselves to its dissemination. But others, on the contrary, are dedicated to generating fear and uncertainty in those who pay attention to the rumors.

Living thinking that we have an enemy under our pillow is not life, fear is a bad informant, which exaggerates and transforms reality. Obviously, you cannot be so gullible, some reserve has to exist, for personal safety, but falling to the opposite extreme is a problem.

In real news, we know that when information is passed from mouth to mouth, it becomes distorted, and in the end it carries with it more lies than truths. It is what has been called "rumor clinic."

We can do the exercise, write information or a story on a piece of paper and give it to one person to read it, memorize it and then tell it to a second and this to a third and so on: when we reach the fifth person and Ask him to tell us what the classmate told him, we will notice how the message has been distorted.

In the case of networks, we have already seen how people use anonymity to create this type of misinformation: artists or celebrities are presumed dead, medications with miraculous cures are offered; addresses are given for jobs that are not such and more.

I'm sure you have a lot to tell us regarding this topic. Maybe you know of someone who got scammed because they believed information or people who assumed something because the rumor generated a type of suspense; or gossip was generated that caused the loss of peace and well-being in a group.

We are going to have fun remembering our own or other people's anecdotes, emphasizing the need not to fall into rumors or news that take away our peace of mind.

How can you participate?

• Tell us anecdotes or experiences where a rumor or false news arose that generated concern. How are you with news or rumors? Do you stop them, believe them, or repeat? Do you think they influence our well-being?

• Write a post with this month's theme in our @holos-lotus Community. Posts must be published directly in the Community, crossposting is not allowed.

• Select only four strategies that you usually apply when you need to regain your balance and therefore your well-being, tell us how you do it and how well it goes for you. Please don't forget to leave the link in the comments box, that's how I'm guided to keep track of participations.

• The publication must have more than 500 words in each language, the content must be original and respectful of copyright, for which we ask you to be careful pointing out the sources of the images and resources you use to support your publication.

• Invite at least two Hivers to join this challenge.

• We like to create a Community, and that is why we invite you to comment on at least 3 other posts from users participating in the initiative.

• Support this post if you like it and reblog it so that more users can join the Contest.

• Use the hashtags #wellbeing and #rumor among the first tags.

• You can also use among your tags those of some of our allies in this initiative: #hispapro, #r2cornell, #ecency.

• You can also write your post from #ecency to add points.

Remember that you can help the growth of our Community by making us beneficiaries of a small % of the rewards from your post. The resources obtained will be reinvested in the activities we carry out in our Community. We thank you in advance for your support.

This initiative will be valid from __04/09/2024 to 04/23/2024.

Acknowledgments

On this occasion we are sponsored by Ecency and we will be distributing 90 Ecency points for the most outstanding publications.

We will count on @charjaim to select the winning posts.

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@nill2021, @noelmut19, @nubra11, @omdjajlgcg @ojsuarez2, @oli1965, @pablojosemusic16, @pannavi, @parauri, @petrica33, @pnessy,
@purrix, @proymet, @ramisey, @ramrikrdo, @rostego, @rosylisboa, @royvego55, @sacra97, @samantha06,, @slwzl, @stefania16, @stefy.music70, @sidalim88,@sofiaquino98, @syllem, @tibaire , @tjnotas, @tony1294, @valeriavalentina, @vidaysalud, @yelimarin, @yenmendt, @yessi08, @yole, @yoselindiaz, @yllentv, @valrodriguez, @vezo @victoraraguayan1, @zhanavic69,
@zorajaime, @zorili91}

Thank you for your kind reading.

My content is original.
Images from Pixabay, edited in Canva.
I have used Google translator.