Social Media

Social media are essential to our everyday life, where social media are perceived as a tool to communicate, sharing information, and establishing relationship indirectly with other people. Social media also provide a sense of community toward people who are interested in a certain topic that they would like to talk about. Nowadays, social media can be access everywhere, where they only required a good internet connection and a gadget to access social media platforms.

In a sense of purpose, social media is the most helpful tool as well as an addiction toward our health, physically and mentally. However, the benefit of social media is outweighing the drawback of the use of social media. The biggest positive thing about having social media is that information is easily accessible and allowing us as users to share our knowledge with other users. Allowing users to learn as well as growing their knowledge in the long run which may be useful in the future and improving a country's economic, politic, and others. Despite the benefit that social media has provided us, but it also provides drawbacks to society. Generally speaking, social media also provides many entertainments toward users, which leads users to be addicted to social media and causing them to have an unhealthy lifestyle. Even for me, as the user of social media, I also have an addiction toward social media and it is very difficult for me to overcome them. 

Identity in social media can be interpreted in various kind of way, as some users would reveal their identity too much, some users would reveal their identity a little bit, and others would remain anonymous. It is very common for people to freely express their opinion on social media. However, expressing too much is not good in the eyes of many users on social media and it may also give away your identity. Where are some users who are curious about your identity may hack into your account and post it on social media. There are others who like to become someone else and play around with their identity, I think this is a bad thing to do on social media especially for the person who does it. By imitating someone, you can manipulate users to believe that you are someone else that is popular which may provide some popularity toward the person who did it. However, it can also be backfired due to there are users who like to hack into someone's account and revealing their real identity and this situation may lead to cyberbullying.

To some extent, I believe social media can bring people together externally and at the same time, social media can also keep people farther apart. The meaning of externally is that social media can connect with people from different geographical locations. However, the use of social media can also affect internally, where the meaning of internally can be defined as someone who is very close to you which is families and friends. In my point of view, social media can create communities that bring people together, but it can also damage their relationship with someone closer to you which are families and friends.

Social media can change people's behavior in a physical and mental way, for me personally, social media changes the way I behave in class or during my study time. Just like what I have said before social media have many entertainments that can be difficult for me to not get distracted. Some people may experience much more, but I believe that social media is becoming a part of my distraction which leads me to have a difficult time focusing on my studies or during class. 

Some people may have privacy concerns in social media, where it is a concern that an unidentifiable user is accessing your personal information. It is common for people to have concerns over their personal information. However, in my standpoint of view, I only use the social media platform that is used by many users as I believe that a popular social media platform has a stronger security system that is difficult to bridge. It is more reliable to use social media that are used by many users, which leads me to believe that popular social media can keep your personal information safely.   

The way I overcome my social media addiction is by putting my phone far away as possible, especially during class or my study time. I would put my phone in my bag or put it somewhere that is difficult for me to reach. There are times when I ask my friend to keep my phone until I have finished all of my work and it is very difficult. Since our brain could not adapt quickly in term of not using social media, which lead people to experience the urge of using social media as their break time. However, it is possible to resist but it requires time as well as energy to stop the urge of using social media