My Opinion: Social Media Problems

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Yesterday, i was distracted by my friend who did a live instastory while she was working as civil servant. On that live instastory, she was just laughing with her friends and talking about something that didn't related with her job. And she does it almost everyday.

Other cases. My friends saved on old grandpa during a traffic accident. Instead of  helping him, the people around took their mobile phones to captured the accident. They were busy with "sharing" their sympaty on social media, but forgot to acted in the real life.

What the heck is going on with these people nowadays?
Why this platform turning people into a narcisstics and egomaniac?
Why people nowadays like of being hyperbolic on a small "garbage" things and being ignorant on the important things?
Is that a human nature?


Social Media is So Addictive

Harvard University's recent study says the evidence of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are so popular and highly addictive for many people. We can start from the question: why people nowadays really love to share anything like their thoughts or actions on social media?

Well, through some of experiments, the researchers found that if someone disclosing information about oneself, it will activate the same part of the brain which is connected with the sensation of pleasure; food pleasure, money pleasure and sex pleasure. So our brain considers that self-disclosure to be precious experience.

The subjects of the experiments asked by researchers with some questions about their opinion and other's opinion, and they were hooking up to an MRI machine. The results showed that the brain's region which asociated with reward were strongly activated when the subjects were talking about themselves. When they were talking about someone else, it were less activated.

That's the reasons why we see people walking and sitting with their heads bowed down, looking at their phones. They need a validation of themselves.

Comparing Yourself to Others Online (Socmed Envy)

Here we are, in the age of internet which is full of images and people. Like’s button is available to touch and your thought can be writen in the comment’s section as  fast as your thinking, whenever and wherever.

For example, on Instagram. There is an impressive profiles that display wealth, luxury, romance, adventure, that can make us enviously comparing our life. “Wow, they go everywhere”, “They have so many friends who often hang out”, “Well, I think she has the best life”, or “How lucky he is”. And what is your feeling after seeing all those things?

You may be left feeling “Arggh, why my life’s so boring?” or “I’m a loser” or “ I hope I can post a good thing same as she did”. Well, be careful, because you comparing your life to a life that you’ve seen on social media, not in a real life.

For an example: You saw someone’s Instagram feed who has a wonderful picture out of there. It seems she had so much fun and her life’s just perfect. But who knows about her real life? No true words have been spoken than that of social media. What it seems is not like that. Some people will never, ever totally honest. Filters for perfect looking, anyone?

Distracting

How many times a day do you check your phone next to your book?

Tweeting, updating on Facebook, or scrolling on Instagram when you are working or study, makes you unproductive.  Our attention full of buzz, ping, beep from our phones, social media platforms, and other gadgets. This is so distracting when we have to doing something in real life.

 When we search for anything online, we typically have to sift through pages of information, some of’em are relevant but most not. And we often bump into something that’s not associated with what we’re looking for. And we often repeat this pattern many times.

For example: I wanted to know about The Good Doctor’s cast name, dr. Kallu. And I found his name is Chukuma Modu. But then I bumped into a curiousity  about his filmography and even his life. There we can start a fangirling-in someone.


Some people forget to be gratefull for their life. Instead of enjoying their meal, scenery or the present of someone, they just scroll through their social media. Social media is such a dominant part of our modern society nowadays.