Social media, such as facebook, twitter, line and wechat, is quite famous from day to day. Everyone at least have an account of one of the social media. This seems bring a lot of benefit for the human, especially for those who are usually active and love in having a social relationship with the others.
However, did this social media really brings benefit for human or in fact it already limited people’s freedom? From many people point of view, social media is a very useful and convenience tools for them to react and interact with others. For example of facebook, people usually love to chat or concerned about others news from facebook. They always use it to concern about others. However, they ignore the people who are around them. How can a people really take care of others who are far away from him rather than take care and concern the people who are around them?
When we are busying involve ourselves in these social media, but we already lost the time to interact with the family and friend around us. It that not seems like funny that we willing to spend time on these social media to concern and chatting with the people far away but do not want to concern about the people around them?
I have even realized that two people who is just beside each other are using wechat to communicate. They do not want to talk to each other but free more comfortable and freedom when using wechat to communicate. This already seems like a sickness. In fact, the social media would give people the freedom and the benefit to connect with the people. However, human always overuse these benefit tools and at the end, these tools limit human freedom, freedom of time and concerning about friends and family.
Social media is quite good but human should use it cleverly. We are the people who control the technology but not the technology control human
I have an experience to share. One friend is looking so upset when there is an outing of 7 people. When he is asked by oral-communication, he refuse to share his sad story. Then the social media, WeChat has used to explore his reason of sadness between one of my friend with him.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, the conversation to know why he was upset should be opened to all the people who attended the outing. However, when the conversation should marked as private and not willing to explored to all, social media is the medium.
We have to control how the social media but not being control by them. I am totally agree with this.
Not just freedom that technology has taken from us, technology making us lazy as well. Take my brother as example. I was in my bedroom and his bedroom was also just beside me. Guess what? He uses Whatsapp to ask me some questions instead of asking me face-to-face. Brilliant isn't? We cannot be too depending on technology to solve all of our problems. Most of the times face-to-face communication is the best way to solve some matters.
ReplyDeleteHaha...
ReplyDeleteThat's right.
I am also using my smartphone to chatting with my house mates...
OMG...
Are you gossiping with your housemate behind another housemate?? haha
DeleteMei fong, I think you are the one who is being discussed. :P
DeleteWith the advancement of technology, I believe that most of the people today prefer to use whatapps or wetchat to communicate with other people rather than make face-to-face communication. This is because whatapps and wechat did not debate our phone credit and this can help to save phone credit.
ReplyDeleteIt's abnormal but is normal phenomenon for nowadys
ReplyDelete@yuwen lai: so next time I can chat with you via wechat loh~Lazy to go downstairs lah.
DeleteCan understand this kind of feeling. My housemate and I also communicate through whatsapp (he lives upstairs and I downstairs). But then i think it is really convenient. Save plenty of energy. Could be one of the reason why i am getting fat recently. But then i think suitable use of it is necessary. Must know how to manage. For small matters, we will just chat in whatsapp, but if it is big matter or i requires plenty of discussion, we will still prefer face to face communication. If you know how to use it, it wouldn't be much problem.
DeleteIf people get used to CMC from the beginning, they won't bother to care F2F anymore. F2F communication is not as easy as we think, we need to practice F2F in order to perform well in front of our crowd. That's why I still prefer to communicate in CMC.
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