Hi!!

Social media have been my main topic recently and basically, I want to make a massive review for it.

Let’s start with pluses. Good things come first 😉

+ Social media helps to meet new people, see other cultures and traditions, find out something you have not seen before. Social media is really a great tool to connect people. It is easy to find things that interest you and you will always find a group suitable for you. As we may know in real life it is so difficult to find people that share same interests. At the same time, it teaches you some new cultures or traditions and it is indeed wonderful to see places you haven’t before. It can inspire you to go there or maybe even move out!

+ Social media can get you recognition, make you famous or help you to promote your product. It reaches so many people and you may never know who might be fascinated by something you do. You might get a support or inspiration. You might get sales and gain extra money. Another tool in life that can be useful.

If to be honest here I will stop because I cannot think of any other pluses. If you have something to add – please comment. ❤

Minuses:

-Social media makes people jealous and angry. When people who cannot afford to buy expensive things or go to places, they get jealous. Sometimes not even intentionally. It might give a lot of people negative emotion just by seeing how other people are getting success. It might even put people into depression thinking that they are not good enough…

-Social media makes people to be fake. I have seen that with my own eyes with the people I knew. Social media influences everyone so much that they start acting they are better than everyone else or start lying. Putting fake posts and stories how happy they are when they actually miserable. Or they show their success and imagine that they are the most important person on earth forgetting where they came from or who they actually are. This is also difficult to distinguish as if you didn’t know the person, you might not even know how they bullshit you through posts and how much they are lying about themselves. Now especially introducing AI it will be even easier to fake pictures and show off.

-Social media makes us care about things that are not important. I seriously was thinking since when it became normal sharing everything on internet. Since when people have some weird urge to share every minute of their life? For approval? For making themselves feel better or why? You know, before social media I didn’t have such a wish to share everything. I did want to share my pictures or videos, as I thought they are so nice or cool, but never my life. More my creations. I think sharing creations was my main reason to have social media, but then everything shifted to sharing minutes of my life. I enjoyed life before social media too. And nobody needed to know about it. Literally. I would usually write it down to my diary, so I could remember later, but that’s all. 😀 why it is such a normal thing now it blows my mind.

-Social media can reveal a lot of negative situations or images, something that may affect us in accidental way. Like, in my country, sad though to say it happened in my country, but somebody did live translation of beating a person till death. AND PEOPLE WERE WATCHING IT. Like, how this is even??? Like, what on earth is wrong with people? I don’t understand. This is scary and I am sure we will see more of those things in a future. At least from my perspective social media are changing to negativity.

-Unfollowing, liking and etc. Look, I literally don’t understand how this is possible but I noticed that people who knew me, we had nice time with me unfollows me on random circumstances, but people who NEVER talked with me or met me still follow me since I created Instagram. Also, i noticed that mainly girls do that. But maybe because I have majority of girls on my social media 😀 but like, I don’t understand this. Why? Like why sudden change of mind? Also, funny enough those people still make you follow them. I literally unfollow people only if they do that to me. Once I unfollowed somebody but I made them not to follow me either! I didn’t make them to follow me just because.

-Social media can make you lose friends. I think you’ll agree that to cut off people from your life nowadays is easy. Block them everywhere and that’s it. No need to explain, no need to ever talk again. I don’t think people using so much messaging through phone numbers, yes, there are those apps as whatsapp or telegram, but in general, people communicate a lot just through social media. If you don’t wish to communicate – easy. Before you had to talk in person with people. Now – few buttons and clicks. Person is gone. As feather gone in a wind.

-Corporations selling things and taking over the social media with sponsored posts. Not sure how your feed looks like, but my contains many sponsored things, many ads I am not interested and I don’t even see the people I actually follow. I see things that makes me unsatisfied. Greedy corporations now only care how more they can sell since we have online shops and it became annoying.

Plus but at the same time a minus – Information. Probably main thing social media gives us is information. You can learn new things, get to see what other people do and learn. BUT there is loads and loads of fake information there. Especially with photoshop, editing programs, AI tools. We can see things that looks like true but it is not a true. It can trip a lot of people, confuse and make people do bad decisions according to that information and it is very difficult to be critical as you never know. Until you actually experience something, you may not know what is true or what is not. It is dangerous. Anyone can persuade you, convince you and it might be a total gibberish!

CONCLUSION

I am not saying, I created social media as I wanted and still want to share my creations. This is what social media was back in a day. It was innocent and there was no judgement, no money involved, just pure support. I missed that. People do not support any more on social media. So many people now have amazing pictures and videos that it is impossible to compete. Everyone is so interesting and yeah, nobody cares about you anymore. Seriously, I was thinking how much I missed raw pictures. Everyone nowadays can be a photographer. But you know what is a photographer to me? Person who can make a good shot WITHOUT EDITING. If you edit and photoshop your pics, you are not a photographer. You are an editor. I am so bored of seeing all those edited pictures. Please, show me a reality….

Unfortunately, I don’t think things will go back to where they were. I guess as all social medias, current ones will die too with no one to use them. I think people eventually will want to just go back to their own life and experience real things instead of watching other people on the phone screen.