Social Media Era
Nowadays, social media is one of the essential things in our life. For some people, it
is completely as important as food and water that supply our life. It is normal now to see
people use their smartphone, tablet, or laptop whenever and wherever they are. To be honest,
that is their right to do what they want to do, but there are three main negative effects resulted
from the using of social media too much relating to the culture. We will discuss them in the
following paragraphs below.
The first negative effect we mostly found is, today people are used to be busy with
their gadget whenever and wherever they are. In the past, we could sit together and started to
talk about our days or activities meanwhile today, people are just busy typing text to other
people out there. There is more laugh, conversation, jokes, and etc. Sometimes, gathering
event feels so useless when each of the member there seems to be busy with their own world.
I could simply say, their body may be here but their mind goes to somewhere we do not
know... even when they stay with their family.
Then, sometimes we also find that people are lazy to socialize with the other around
them but at the same time, they are completely engaged with their gadget just to see some
strangers from social media. You may notice that people nowadays are less talking to the
other in the real life but they could write and have chat in a long conversation on social
media. You may don't befriend with the new neighbor who lives ten meters from you but you
are the best friend from someone who talks to you from a thousand kilometers that you have
never physically met. Also, sometimes it is hard to ask people to socialize because they are
stuck too hard on their social media.
At the last, people seem to lose their identity. There are so many fake things existed.
In the real life, you may be nothing but in social media, you could be everything. It is a
common culture today to edit your picture to make you look more beautiful, more and
handsome and etc. You can also take a picture with stranger expensive car just to show how
wealthy you are even that car doesn't belong to you. Thus, we leave the culture that teach us
to be honest and start a new culture where we pretend to be somebody or something just to
get friends.
In short, social media has some negative effects such as decreasing people attention
when they are gathering, decreasing people desire to socialize with the people around them,
and losing their identities. It changes our people behaviour that leads into the change of our
culture.
