How Bad Social Media Can Make

Most people nowadays think that life is all about approval. Do you realize it? if don’t, then I will approve it here. Since technology in 20s has now holding a huge importance on people’s needs, somehow the rapid growth of this technology is sometimes pointless, eventually when it comes to social media. Over the past years, people has been introduced by a new modern hand phone called smartphone that now can fulfill everything we need. Yet, at one point or another this smartphone makes people dumb instead. For some reasons, operating this high technology then decreased our personal growth of life ever since. Now, everyone has changed over it. Despite of mentioned that this changes are good, I emphasized my point about our true life for living has been stolen by only 5 inch screen we looked down for hours or even for days to days without resting. Work gets ignored, beloved people get uncared, important task gets delayed, and time gets wasted. The only thing that we placed for something important is updating status/tweets (sharing your thoughts or your feeling over it), posting photos with perfect pictures (and sometimes we used so many applications for editing), posting videos of something you did at that day (yet it is unimportant activities instead) and living a fake life for it. I reemphasized the fake life here, because this huge changes have made up our society to be too nasty. Before social media, we really living for life. We do really work for working, we do really love for real attention (do not need to be disturbed by need to posting couple photos and making sweets caption or status), we do really travel for relaxing (not because for getting photos to be uploaded), we do really having life for ourselves, not for anyone. 

Without realizing, the moments we have is wasted for the moments we fake on social media. How most people wasted on social media is something that can not be denied for having activities in it. We become overly thought on how we make a good caption/tweets/status in order to get attention. When we got problems, most people will share it easily on social media, yet we do not tell it to our near people who really care for us. When we love someone, we commonly update how deep our love to the person, yet we ignored them whenever they around. Furthermore, when we visit a good place, you just have to look around your surrounding, most people just busy taking photos (to catch a good pose and a good background), but none of them really enjoying the place. When people meet with friends, they updated it on social media and replied comments to each other, yet they forgot that they are ignoring each other in real meeting. On the other hand, the most problem is that we are hunger for approval, we have spent majority of our worth life being addicted to social faking life for the sake of social approval, social status, and social likes. We are suffering for getting many likes and many followers on social media, but ironically, we are losing our worthy time. Using social media is not something bad, we can easily connect everyone just in a second. But, we have to realize since social media has no limitation connection, thus we should balance between our real connection in life too. Don’t spend much of your time for having a perfect profile in social media, wondering many followers and likes, faking perfection we badly pretending to be rich, happy, beautiful, yet we forget that living real life is far better.