How the internet changed me socially. – Is Social Media really social?
A year ago today, I joined Twitter and Instagram on the 20th of April 2020. It was two months after I made my Facebook account. The date now is April 21, 2021 and it will be a long time before I will say it is long enough for me to stay in Social Media.
I have plans, to travel the world freely. To experience different cultures and traditions. Make new friends and check every list on the bucket. It will be a long long time. Things like these are dreams that are meant to be achieved.
Social Media gives you the urge to make it quick. Being successful is not a race. But a journey to start. It is now that we start achieving it truthfully. As time is gold, so is the feeling of making your dreams come true.
But is Social Media, really social?
The online world completely changed my life. Physically and socially. It made me think that I am different. Because actually, we are. It change me to the point that I feel I am not living the real world anymore.
I joined Facebook, Twitter and Instagram out of curiosity. To be exact due to that urge of “I want this”, “I want this too”. The Bandwagon fallacy is a wrong term for having or letting you have things others have that you like, but do not need.
Social Media has brought people around the world, closer than ever. As the reach of the internet and the digital world expands, the way we see ourselves is becoming more ridiculous. The more selfies you post, the more people dislike you. They judge you.
The confidence of a teen, a child and all the people on social media is characterized by the way they interact in the online world. Insecurities distracts us from being real infront of the screen. We are different inside it.
The Advantages
I had a previous Facebook account on the year of 2018, I was a 6th grader. The reason I made one is due to the fact that my classmates have it. They have their own cellphones, internet and at an early age, a social life. I then, deleted it because I wanted to focus being a kid back then.
Now I realize that it was a game changer. Most of the internet back then is not what I expected. Now that I am used to it, I am addicted. Is it really that inclined that I want to continue using it day by day? Just like every time there is a signal interruption I can’t use my phone online because of storms or power outages.
Just weeks ago we got our new Wi-Fi router and we are connected online better than ever. I can publish whenever I want (I wish). The connection strength of the internet is better and faster. We actually did not buy anything from Globe or PLDT. Our provider is RBC Cable and I will make a story about that on another post.
RBC Cable provides internet? Yes, they do and their service is great.
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I got my first phone, my very own phone last January of 2020. At 13 in the 8th Grade of High School. Most of the other teens my age already had their phone as early as 9 or 10 years old. And I know what you are thinking, why didn’t you too?
Great question, I can’t reply a great answer to that. You can not have something you want that you do not need. That is what we should live by. The bandwagon culture folks, is a Madman that will eat your decency until it makes you get that urge to buy it.
“If many believe so, it is so”
Do you easily believe something on the internet? How do you prevent false information from spreading?
As the social media changed the news world and it’s way of telling stories, the people online are like the ones who tell them what is happening unlike the Journalists who are supposed updating us.
One great example is the story Jessica Soho told Howie Severino in the show, “The Howie Severino Podcast”. They talked about how Soho fought against sexism and bullying when she started as a field reporter for GMA News. How she hated social media because of toxicity and judgements.
Up until Soho thought that because there is the wide reach of social media, maybe the online world won’t need their service anymore. My enumeration is not exactly what they said but the message is there.
What it takes to be newsworthy
By the time I realized that every bit of the news every Network tells is almost the same. Like one outlet publishes a good story then another one copies. Now I am not saying that when one already did it, no one should also do it again. But seriously what is what and who is who.
Do you think that a single move of a celebrity is newsworthy enough to be told all over the world. That you should repost an artista’s Instagram picture because they are on the beach or they “woke up like this”. Isn’t it a little dramatic?
I am not a hater nor a basher, I am a concerned amateur blogger that just wants to help. The idea of the news is to tell what is happening to and on the world. Not to tell updates with matching fancy captions about celebrities. I salute the News Organizations that do their part.
Back to the real topic.
For some you might think the that the reason I wrote this, is to change the way you think about social media. No, it is about how my life changed dramatically by the effects of bad self management. I will start to be better and more funnier than ever on sharing memes in Facebook. I promise to keep things just the way I like it, Online and in real life.
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