2016 Jul 19
by Ridmi Upeksha
Social media is an up and coming life style altering aspect in most of the younger generation as well as some of the more older users. Everyone with their smart phone trying to access the internet and logging onto their favourite social media site to share activities like basic day to day events to more personal intimate moments with friends and FRIENDS OF FRIENDS has become more of a need compared to a want to post it so that everybody can access it. People have reached to a level where they are in need of posting and are feeling obliged to share their moments on their favourite social media site for everyone to see regardless of the fact as to what extent this act would affect their lives because of their zero attention to their own privacy. People have allowed social media to take over and conquer their lives without realisation of why exactly social media was introduced in the first place and lost sense as to what extent they should share details of their lives amongst people whom you barely know of. However, setting the negativity aside looking at the vast opportunities and networks that has opened for marketers, business men and women because of social media is simply priceless. It’s convenience, connections, and fast updates made it easier for people of these positions to turn it into a useful tool.
Its not the social media to blame when a group of people come up with a culture where they pass an idea to rest of its users focused on reaching an extremely unnecessary life style changes. People who are in their young ages are just blindly trying adapt to these cultures with zero reconsideration. How often does someone rethink their actions when posting something on their favourite social media site amongst their friends? Is everyone on your page an actual friend of yours? It is highly unlikely that they all are. If they are not why do you have the need to post what type of sandwich you had in the morning, or which designer wear shoe that you are wearing at the moment for strange people to see? Place yourself in the audience in this scenario and question yourself do you really care to know how much money someone spends on their footwear or how fancy someone’s breakfast was? There is an out if you are a blogger using social media the way of income, awareness for a cause, or marketing your new product. But when you are not, and you are only a schooler with a smart phone telling the whole wide world that you got an attitude that’s worth nothing and shows your need for attention on social media rethink about the character that you are building for yourself. Do you really want a bunch of people to judge you for what you are posting or do the same vice versa? There will be no need for these unnecessary shenanigans if you are a person with real friends or if you are a person who can appreciate real things in life. If younger kids were more interactive with their friends and were more open about inner self struggling and actual matters at hand their disrupted social behaviour and teenage self involvement will be considerably less. Looking at social media being a problem from this point of view can be justified as a coping mechanism or a route out for those kids who actually have problems. Do we find a solution for the core issue or blame the root that is stretching out vastly with no direction and an ending point. For someone who has a whole future ahead of him or herself, its essential to understand that there are so many things in life that are enjoyable and its your responsibility to explore the world out there.
Your life should not be limited to technology and its tools. Change the feeling of the need to post on your social media site into a want and then into nothing. Share your moments with real people around you. Save memories in your mind and review them with those whom you care about. Read plenty of books, find a new hobby that you are passionate about, find out volunteer work that you can do to the society and find new friends in that society out there. LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE WASTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA. As the youth of this generation if we can for a minute focus on being human, being smarter, and being helpful to change this insensible way of thinking and way of life then society will be a much friendlier place. Focus on your inner positive instincts to realise that social media is only a fake wall built up against your long path of achieving more positiveness that’s filled with new possibilities. World is a wonderful place filled with positive energy that will uproot positiveness if you want to look at it that way. Be real and positive and spread the vibe.
