Social Media Phenomenon

Social Media isn’t something new to most of us. Almost everyone who owns a smartphone uses social media. Social media became a place for people to share their thoughts, their everyday lives, news, and pretty much everything to the world. Social Media is great, we can communicate with people, share entertaining things, and maybe keep up with all the updated news all around the world. Let’s say if some of your family members live across the state, then social media can help reduce that gap so you can still be in touch with them. Another thing is that we can meet new people, make new friends, and even use social media to promote products as a part of our bussiness.

As great as it gets, nowadays, social media became something we have to be careful of. People are slowly becoming addicted to social media, especially teenagers. This can mean breaking their friends and family relationship. Social media addicts are mostly really antisocial in real life. They have more friends in the internet than they do in real life. They prefer paying more attention about their life in social media than their real life, which is clearly something wrong and needs to be avoided. A lot of people think of social media as a place to share every single thing they want, including things that are not true, and as a place they can act immaturely. We have to think carefuly about what we share on social media. The fact is, things shared on the internet can spread around the world easily and very quickly as everyone has access to social media. Things that are wrong and not true spread around the world can cause a lot of problems. Crime also occurs in social media like hacking or cyber bullying. Things like that will just make life in social media worse.

As a new generation, we should try to make social media become more of a positive thing. Social media right now is something known more for the negative effects. We should use social media only as much as we need to, and stop doing things that aren’t supposed to be done. We should also try to make more use of the positive things about social media. That way, social media will not be a problem anymore.

By Stefany Emily Limanto (Grade 9 Level A)