In this week’s material that is been given to read, listen and watch. The main focus of the material I have seen is on the topic that what social media is doing to human life. Every passing day, month or year is bringing new and interesting apps on the social media platform and taking us away from the real life.
This week’s episode of the Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits, in this episode we all see how Bing met with Abi and convinces her to participate in the talent show and how this lead this girl to loss her dignity. I mean we crave to have fame and limelight but while perusing we fail to understand that everything comes with a price.
in the article: “Cicero’s Twitter: Tom Standage on the forgotten history of social media”, the author said that humans from the start have the habit of communicating in a very private form. Social media has given us nothing more than just more room to communicate with a lot of people but still we use the chat boxes to have our deep conversations. He said “The central premise of the book is that from Cicero to Thomas Paine to Mark Zuckerberg, people have always communicated in very personal ways. Yet we often hear people talking about “social media” as an entirely new phenomenon. Why is it so easy for people to forget this history?”
I think the author has said right about this phenomenon. People when come to sharing do not trust easily and still find ways to share in a more private way. Social media has given us nothing more than that.
After this I have read the article: “How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life”. I found the topic of this article interesting to know what impacts social media has put to the family as a whole. We often see people saying that now every person of the house has his/her own cellphones and that’s why they do not have a landline communication. I mean while saying so, they still did not see what these cellphones have charged them with the price? The price of their “Family time”. Landlines were used to be a common sharing place for the families and the whole family gather at the landline spot to talk with their loved one. What the cellphones have done is that they have taken this family time and replaced it with the virtual rooms and chatting groups where the same family members are connecting virtually from their own rooms.
From all these readings and watching, what I found is we are being indulged so much in the social media that we forgot our actual life, our family time and our me time too. The social media’s addiction is so powerful that we do not find it easy to stop scrolling and turn the Wi-Fi off to relax our eyes. My question to all of you is
Does the social media is that much powerful or we made it so?
Who gave this power to social media? US?
I have found this article related to this week’s topic that social media is improving or in other words empowering itself in order to grab more of our time.
SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY 
I liked the article a lot and totally agree. I think it is a very interesting concept of private and public that you bring up. It was a very good point you made how people don’t realize how it isn’t a very private way of communicating these days with social media, and that social media truly might be running us.
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I liked this post a lot! I also agree that social media has this hold on us that we’d be willing to change everything about ourselves for. To give something like social media this hold over our lives is wild and crazy if you really think about it. Imagine all the other things you could be doing and experiencing if we all just lived in the moment more and savored it.
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