Patrice Nicole Soliva Saint Augustine-XI

September 16, 2018

Ms. Jeanin Fabe
Ameliorate Changes

In this modern world, we all know that most of us use social media in our daily
lives especially the new generation that is so called “Millennials”. Social media is where
users are able to share, create and participate in social networking in websites and
applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Pinterest, We Heart It and
etc. As a student, how does social media affects you, people around you and our lives?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using social media?
As time passes by, many of us are using social media for some purposes like
getting connected with our love ones far from us, getting good informations about
people we idolize or should I say people who we are interested to, getting more
informations about the things that we want to know and differentiate if it’s reliable or not,
discovering informations or things you didn’t know before that it already or also existed
in this world. There are advantages and disadvantages of using social media. According
to our last discussion in our Media and Information Literacy, the advantages of social
media in a relationship or a friendship are people who are physically apart can continue
to communicate at a lower cost, send pictures, use live-streaming, in friendship you can
meet new friends or people through social media thereby strengthening the ties
between them. The disadvantages of it are it demands on relationship-building
increases with social media. People expect friends and family to respond immediately
when in fact, not because that person is active on Messenger (for example) doesn’t
mean she/he is actually using messenger, and some private conversations can made
vulnerable to exposure. In talking about diversions/entertainment the bright side of
social media is it can provide great entertainment and allow users to have a respite from
their busy schedules. In its opposite side, the form of entertainment can be addictive.
Others find it more difficult to manage their time wisely and to focuson the task at hand.
So those are some examples of how social media can affect certain things.
As a student, a social media is very helpful for us nowadays. It helps us to get
updated to the things happening around us. It can only be a hindrance to ourselves if
we don’t know how to manage our time, how to control ourselves in using it. So it’s up to
us on how we discipline ourselves in every thing we do and we must think before we
click. It is because one wrong move can make everything disappear as fast how
bubbles disappear when poked.