Dealing with Social Media

Question:
Questions regarding dealing with internet media, communication, and the exchange of data, articles, writings, and short messages. WhatsApp, or Twitter, or Facebook, or other means of communication that gather groups or individuals, where speech travels quickly. Sometimes it includes communicating truth with falsehood, and explained verses, sometimes supplications, sometimes dhikr (remembrance of Allah), sometimes absolute rumors, and sometimes it contains what is sound and what is not. What is the position that children are raised with regarding dealing with these means of resistance?

Answer:
The position is to stay away from them, no matter what they yield; stay away from them and be safe from them, no matter what they yield, because they confuse the dhikr and also affect those with zeal if they see these matters that contain criticism of religious affairs or of scholars; they have an effect. Yes. And may you be blessed. Staying away from them.
As for entering them, whoever has the ability, knowledge, conduct, and control of good over evil, and is able to take the good from them and spread it, and warn against the evil in them and refute it, then this is not shameful; this is good work, despite its danger and the difficulty of remaining safe from it. In any case, withdrawing from them and staying away from them is undoubtedly safer for the conscience, more relaxing for the mind and the soul, and more secure.