Sitting comfortably on the chair, behind the computer screen, talking to your friend, chatting for hours now, then simply looking behind, to find him or her sitting in the next door computer lab, in the library! You look to each others, share that awkward look and burst into laughter! Ever happened with any of you? If not, I'm pretty sure one day one time, it will!
No one denies what the Social Media revolution added to our lives, and what improvements it brought with it. Clearly enough, everyone by now have seen the great effects of it on nearly every aspect of our lives, such as our personal lives, social lives, professional lives and much more. On a personal level, to communicate with family and friends, to share multimedia, to make new friends, to reach out to a huge audience and make your voice heard are just a few features of what social media offers. Work wise, to make communication easier among international companies, and send electronic mails that are hundred times faster than normal mails are basically the blessings of social media and the facilities it provides. Oh great social media, we should be grateful, thankful…However; there is definitely more to the story!
Let's approach it from an entirely different angle…
WHAT ON EARTH HAS HAPPENED TO US? WHAT IS WRONG?
I mean, seriously, are we letting this great digital revolution to take over our lives after all the pros that we've seen from it? Two major problems we are facing today due to the social media: laziness, and unproductiveness.
The social media that is depicted in the social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter has been the dominant for around the past 6 to 7 years now. This dominance led to many positive as well as negatives results. Generally speaking, social networking websites seemed to erase the importance of the interpersonal communication, and people especially youngsters whose age groups range from 15-25 would rather prefer hiding behind screens instead of having a face-to-face real conversation, or having to have an eye contact with someone. Perhaps, the reason behind that is youngsters who've been already born within the digital age era, have been quite experiencing that kind of communication ONLY. They didn’t seem to experience the real communication like older generations did. This made them develop the laziness, and the habit of replacing the interpersonal communication, with such means, like instant messaging, and networking websites. Sometimes, they start hating on huge gatherings where they have to meet a lot of people, or even feel out casted due to the lack of such communication in their lives! Trust me, this is no exaggeration! (let's not mention also, the unproductiveness it leads youngsters to when they spend hours and hours just on blabbering through instant messaging programs!)
Having said enough about the youngsters, let's have a look on adults. Looking upon a different range of age groups that is from 25 and above, social media leads them sometimes to unproductiveness. Those adults are wasting their time, and there are two cases. Case 1: They are either learning how to deal with the new digital revolution that stormed their lives, as in learning how to start catching up with the busy and dominating life that is constantly and exponentially improving. Case 2: They have already passed that phase and are quite eligible to use everything contemporary and challenging related to social media, so what happens? They simply become overwhelmed and lost in admiration of the new technologies provided to them. This leads them to ignoring many important aspects of their lives, let's say, family, or work, thus; becoming rather unproductive. Therefore, either ways, this is really going bad.
I am absolutely not against social media, and I'm not trying to say "It is bad; let's abandon this", all what I'm trying to say over here is to prove that positives and negatives are just the two faces of the same coin; social media. What we need to do is to start taking up serious actions, and take all the negative points that we've been acting blind to, into consideration. Other than this, I guarantee you, we'll all fall apart from the social media negative effects that are becoming bigger every day and every minute. Just by reading this sentence, there are hundreds of youngsters who have just signed in to MSN, to start their prolonged chatting sessions!
Social Media: Where is it leading us to? Watch the video and I'll leave the comment to you. :D
