EXPLOITATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN SYARIAH CRIMINAL ACTIONS

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The activities and development of heresy are widely spread as a result of the exploitation of social media.

Social media has become a platform or medium that is easy to use and user-friendly for anyone to communicate and deliver information to various categories of users who have access to the internet.

Technology and the media are important tools in disseminating information and educating the public about issues related to economics, politics and religion.

The continuous use of media can have an impact on society, whether positive or negative.

Social media has gained the attention of every age group in society along with the development of technology that is becoming more advanced.

Teenagers in particular see social media as a recent trend to fill their spare time with socializing in cyberspace.

Widespread use of social media can provide benefits and at the same time it can also have a negative impact on society.

According to Tariq & Mattoo classify social media into four categories which are online networks and ecosystems (online networks and ecosystems ) such as

Facebook
Linkedin
Instagram
Twitter

In addition, online publications ( online publications ) such as

YouTube
Flickers
RSS
SlideShare

There is also a category of social media that is an online collaboration platform ( online collaboration platforms ) such as

MediaWiki
Blog

Another category of social media is online feedback system ( online-based feedback system) for the purpose of interaction, submitting comments, surveys and others.

The interaction between one party and another will be faster, efficient, easy and transparent in matters of information delivery with the presence of social media nowadays.

This also gives space and opportunity to an organization to use it as an important medium to build and improve relationships with users.

This social media also brings a lot of benefits not only from the aspect of the information delivery system, but it can improve the service of an organization to users better, improve interaction with stakeholders, access to wider information and the organization's information management becomes more efficient.

It is also part of the needs of today's society to enable society to convey information.

The Internet can also gather resources and information so that it can reach the world.

There is no doubt that there are many benefits that can be found by internet users through social media.

Among the benefits that can be obtained from social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is that it can be used as a field for sharing knowledge or useful information and is an advantage for social media users to exchange opinions.

Apart from that, social media is also seen as a tool to convey news quickly, accurately and appropriately.

This can be seen when most of the country's main newspapers such as Berita Harian, Utusan, Harian Metro, The New Straits Times and so on have Facebook, Twitter and other accounts that are used to deliver news to readers online.

Next, it is to facilitate the daily affairs of social media users when most transactions whether purchasing goods or banking matters can be managed online.

However, even though there are various positive effects that can be taken from this social media, social media is also often exploited in the conduct of crimes including Shariah crimes as well.

The most common example we can see is in the matter of marriage. Exploitation of social media in matters of marriage happens when this social media is misused by individuals to find friends when they are bored or temporary companions even though they are already married or married.

There are many applications on social media that are used by those who are still looking for a partner to marry such as Tinder and Baitul Jannah.

However, it is misused by those who are married.

From here, the position of the household will be shaky and even have great potential to collapse when a third party is involved.

Things like this lead to cases of cheating and lead to divorce.

Not only that, through social media many people also know how to get married in the wrong way and not in accordance with the law, such as marrying abroad due to not getting the family's blessing or wanting to have polygamy without getting permission from the sharia court.

These days, many people are caught alone because of a brief introduction session on Twitter or Facebook.

Social media should be a platform that gives a positive impression but is very easy to exploit.

In fact, the activities and development of heresy are also widely spread as a result of the exploitation of social media. Most of it grew out of Facebook.

Heresy is easy to spread because there are many people who, when they see posts related to religion, continue to share them without investigating their validity first.

Let's all be careful in the use of social media.

Date of Input: 11/06/2024 | Updated: 11/06/2024 | asmunir

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