{"id":32388,"date":"2024-05-23T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=32388"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:11:49","slug":"banky-w-shares-insights-on-navigating-social-media-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/23\/banky-w-shares-insights-on-navigating-social-media-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"Banky W Shares Insights on Navigating Social Media Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer and politician Banky W recently offered valuable advice on managing the quest for validation on social media. Appearing as a guest on the latest episode of the &#8220;Who&#8217;s In My House&#8221; show, hosted by Hawa Magaji, Banky W discussed how he and his wife, actress Adesua Etomi-Wellington, maintain their privacy amidst the constant scrutiny of the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Banky W highlighted the importance of not being swayed by others&#8217; opinions. He underscored that seeking validation from social media can be detrimental, especially in today&#8217;s digital age. &#8220;Don&#8217;t get your validation from the comments section, which is very hard to do in today&#8217;s times,&#8221; he advised.<\/p>\n<p>He elaborated on the temptation to immediately check likes and comments after posting something online, noting that while it&#8217;s natural to care about feedback, it&#8217;s crucial not to let it define one&#8217;s self-worth. &#8220;You can get the humour from there, but the lesson is to not get the validation from the comment section,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Banky W acknowledged the inherent human desire for approval, explaining, &#8220;It is unrealistic to not care because you will care about what people say. The reason why you take a shower, brush your teeth, and get dressed to look presentable is because you care what people think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, he warned against allowing this concern to become overpowering. &#8220;It&#8217;s good to care, but it&#8217;s bad when you let that control you. I think that we&#8217;ve gotten to a dangerous point in the world where we&#8217;ve gone past the point of caring about people&#8217;s opinions to being controlled by them. Now people do things just to trend, say things just to go viral, or make things up,&#8221; he observed.<\/p>\n<p>Banky W concluded by sharing how he and Adesua strive to remain grounded despite external pressures. &#8220;That&#8217;s something that Susu and I have to continually learn and remind ourselves, and that&#8217;s how we try to carry ourselves and navigate the world that we&#8217;re in now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer and politician Banky W recently offered valuable advice on managing the quest for validation on social media. Appearing as a guest on the latest episode of the &#8220;Who&#8217;s In My House&#8221; show, hosted by Hawa Magaji, Banky W discussed how he and his wife, actress Adesua Etomi-Wellington, maintain their privacy amidst the constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":32389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32403,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32388\/revisions\/32403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}