After going through the stuff provided for this week’s blog what I have found is that social media is being taken as a monster in our lives who wants us to give all of our time to it. Many of the social media platforms and apps are providing us with the material we want to see and we found ourselves helpless to stop scrolling. But I still think it depend upon us how we want to use a source as a friend or as a monster. Social media has given us much more to think about or thank about. I feel good for the people who are earning for their households all because of this social platform because they have taken their home based business to the market level with the help of this.
Coming towards this week’s episode of Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits, I think this episode was quite an upset one because what happened with Abi was not a good thing. Yes, I agree that social media fame is driving people crazy but then again the question arises that who is going to stop this all if not We?
While reading the article ““How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life”, it sure does have change the life and the family sittings. Again, we still can plan to have family sittings and family gatherings. I believe that people need to adapt with the changing time and should have to deal with these changings in a positive way rather to complaint about it every time. I mean what do you expect from this generation to leave all of the modern techniques and sit in a house? Of course, it seems impossible but what we can do is we manage the time and schedule and act respectively. There is need that we involve our parents too in this changing world so they do not feel abandoned.
In another article: “Cicero’s Twitter: Tom Standage on the forgotten history of social media” the author has explained the phenomenon of the social media in quite a positive way, that it is just like another place where people can gather and have long lasting chats, like they tend to do in the old coffee houses and in gathering but now virtually. People from the start had the sharing behavior and they with time get the advance ways of sharing their personals with one another. The author said that “Modern social media is so compelling because it’s the most convenient and efficient means we have invented so far to scratch a prehistoric itch: the desire to share and network with other people”.
What my point of view here is, or what I have concluded from this week’s topic is that social media along with its negative impacts have given a lot to people. There is need that people or the users of the social media will schedule their time to use these services because again these apps and services are not being invented to give harm to the humanity but for their ease and comfort.
For this week’s news article, I have chosen this article with my point that social media is also a source for our ease and comfort.
In the end, my questions for you all to think and respond are:
How we can make this social media a friend of ours?
Are the negative impacts powerful enough to neglect the perks?
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in order for people to not be controlled by the “monster”, we have to know how negatively it is affecting us and wnt to make the change and that is hard for people to do because we are so used to it and it is around us everywhere. Just because I may decide to put my phone down doesn’t mean everyone else will it is hard to watch people be so consumed by their phones then to interact socially in person. That alone can lead someone down the path of deciding to keep using their phones on a daily basis.
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