For
some people, a day without social media is not humanly possible. I
don’t think they would even be able to function if social media were to just
disappear. There was an article I read recently on prdaily.com
that really opened my eyes on how much social media has impacted today’s
generation. The article, Study: What social media
will do to our brains by 2020” discussed how “Social media is rewiring the
brains of young people,” and I completely agree.
Before
social media, people communicated with each other in a whole different way. A
simpler way if you ask me. If you wanted someone to come over to your house or
meet you somewhere for coffee, all you had to do was pick up the phone.
However, now, I feel like today’s generation doesn’t even know how to use the
telephone if it’s not for texting reasons. I don’t know how many times I’ve
heard someone say “I just hate talking on the phone,” or “Texting is just
faster and easier for me.” That just goes to show that people are becoming more
anti-social and lazier. I’ve noticed that every time someone gets to my
apartment, instead of knocking on the door or calling me, they’ll just text me
to let me know that they’ve arrived. Is this just what the younger generation
is accustomed to?
The
article also discussed information from a study done by Elon
University and Pew Internet, where more than 1,000 technology stakeholders
and critics say that by 2020 young people will be “less likely to undertake
deep, critical analysis of issues and challenging information.” So what does
this mean exactly? In my opinion, this is saying that young people don’t really
have to think for themselves anymore. They have access to more information with
social media sites and I feel like that’s limiting the use of their own
knowledge.
Information
is now at the tip of one's fingers in today's world. It is an amazing thing to
have technology come so far but we shouldn't let it take over our world. A day
without social media would show the younger generation how beautiful a walk
outside could be without having to constantly be checking their social media
sites. Meeting new people used to be so much more personal. Now everything is
done online and human connection is being lost.
The
younger generation is growing up in a society where they have access to
everything they need to know about. Sure some of this can be very
beneficial to them in the real world by allowing them to connect with others
and be able to do things that one isn’t able to do without social media.
Even though some people see the affects of social media as a positive
thing, “Some experts expressed concerns that trends are leading to a
future in which most people become shallow consumers of information,
endangering society” (elon
study).
So
how different would it be if we didn’t have social media today? Would there be
a lack of communication or would there be more face-to-face interaction with
people? One can only predict how social media will affect us in the near
future, but we won’t really know until we actually see the effects ourselves.
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