The Power of Social Media (Response Essay)

Pivotal Part Of Our Reality

            Communication is the vital factor that generates and maintains relationships. In today’s modern era, communication technology has improved to become both simple and fast. That improvement is the social media. We use social media to keep ourselves updated about what is happening around us. It our source for social awareness. We can easily interact and connect with other people through using social media networks. Indeed, social media becomes a huge part of our lives.

            It is really fascinating how social media works into our lives. It has become more and more popular that it absolutely affects our way of viewing things and how we respond to our society. As a result it is both a good and bad thing. Its advantage is that it gives people the benefit to communicate with other people without having step a foot out of their homes while its disadvantage is that it can allow people to create danger among the internet users such as cyber bullying, sell illegal stuffs, create hoax and many more.

            Yes, social media help us in many things that it even made our life easier but we should know how to use it properly. Set our mind on how we should limit ourselves using social media. Because it can harm us without even noticing it. It’s just too late to realize that we are already enslaved by its negative impact. We need to be careful. Don’t be the slave but be the superior.

            The power of social media is enormous. Oftentimes, the good and bad side of it depends on the user. We are the one’s controlling it but because of such obsession we lost our control. Using social media comes also a responsibility to maintain it to be under control. We must know how to differentiate the real world between the online world.

            Social media isn’t that bad after all. We gain information upon using it and be able to share insights and stories with others. Sometimes, we express our thoughts to social media rather that expressing it personally with people. For example, you have to express about something to someone you know but because you are not comfortable telling it personally you use social media instead.

            It is really up to us on how we use social media for good reasons. Well, there are other against it but eventually they will understand that we are the one who can solve the problem. We can make a change, a good change. Just like what the article said, “We should utilize this very powerful medium not only to spread awareness about our various advocacies and projects but more importantly, to express our collective concern about issues that impact the future of our country.”

            Social media becomes a huge part of our lives. It is helpful to everyone. It gives us the opportunity to connect with others no matter how far the distance is. Use social media to encourage others to do valuable things not for wrong reasons and non-sense things. With that, social media is pivotal part of our reality.