New form of media especially social media now have change us and the way we socialize. How do we know this social media change us? This will explain it, people nowadays more easily to deliver the news, sharing ideas and express their opinion as long as that person have access to the internet and no longer blocked by any organization [1]. We now can share anything we want by using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others kind of social media that exist in internet. If we see in the past, individual or organization are barely recognized by people and now with help of new media especially social media the individual or organization has a better chance to gain the fame or popularity.
Now we have smartphone and it is more entertaining. It is convenient we can bring it anywhere and we can check or social media from it. It already change us, we often to get distracted to our smartphone, give more time to devices rather than try to engage with people in real life. In college many students are checking their smartphone when their professor teach them and people get bored in class they check Facebook, Instagram and other kinds of social media they have in their devices.
In Victoria Wicks and Sasha Boutilier article, their professor told them that he need to dumb down course material and shorten essays test because students began to struggle with the requisite depth of though [2]. This happen because they are to dependent on technology or devices.
In previous paragraph we already discuss a little bit of how social media changes us, the technology we use to access it and effect if we are to dependent on technology,
We are going to discuss how social media change us and what is the consequences
1. Information source
We can get information in any of social media we can found in internet without go to specific news website, for example Facebook allow us to share news or information from other website to our timelines. It give information to our friends what is happening. But many people forget to filter the news they share, it can give negative impact because it can mislead people after they read the news.
2. Meet and Stay in touch with people
We can meet people from social media easily, and we can communicate with them anytime you access social media that allow you chatting, voice call, video call and etc. It also make us stay connected to people we know such as friends, family and groups. Pretty much we got everything we need to socialize with people from social media but it also give negative impact to us. Social media can be addictive, we can forget about our daily lives or responsible when use it too much. It is like being absorbed to virtual world.
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We can share everything we want to social media, we show to world about how this story news is interesting or entertaining, share photos, opinion, critic and etc. We are more freely to create the content today, nobody can stop you to create it. We can show to people what have we create or share the story. But people all in the world is not always on your side, if you post some hate speech, criticism or opinion people might attack you indirectly to your comment or even take screenshot about it and humiliate you to others people about what you say to them. Even cyber bullying is hard to evade able if you make mistake in social media.
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We already see three point of how social media change us and the consequences, in this video it talk about how 5-10% of internet user are hardly to control how much they spend online because addicted to social media, People are multi tasking when switching devices is actually it reduce brain filter and make your brain harder to remember the information. For further information you can check video below:
Now our socialization is become online socializing where we depend on our gadget to do socialization with people in the world. The changes has positive and negative impact. Where is the positive we can stay connected to people, easy to get information and freely to share our thought, in other hand we become less socialization in real conversation, our daily routines and some people tend to forget to filter their news sources and stay stay in front of their devices without trying to engage people in real life. We shouldn't forget to do reality check when we almost "disappear" into our virtual world.
Reference:
[1] O'Keefe, K. (2014). We're still social, technology just changes how we socialize - Real Lawyers Have Blogs. [online] Real Lawyers Have Blogs. Available at: http://kevin.lexblog.com/2014/08/11/were-still-social-technology-just-changes-how-we-socialize/ [Accessed 11 Aug. 2016].
[2]Wicks, V. and Boutilier, S. (2014). Are students too dependent on technology?. [online] The Varsity. Available at: http://thevarsity.ca/2014/10/05/are-students-too-dependent-on-technology/ [Accessed 12 Aug. 2016].
[3]Gordhamer, S. (2009). 5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives. [online] Mashable. Available at: http://mashable.com/2009/10/16/social-media-changing-lives/#HvBei2J6_sqm [Accessed 11 Aug. 2016].
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