Instead of pulling the bell i'd rather scream 'ding-dong' out loud so you could hear who's speaking outside your gate. Been thinking about this while i was waiting for Gumball and suddenly want to spit the words out now.
SO, lately people's been soooo drowned with the wave and everything seems to be nearly effortless to do. We know that our world is digitalized (can't find proper way to say that) that everything is possible in digital world. You just have to choose what you like by clicking it, shouldn't have moved your crossed feet on the way you're sitting now and BOOM! it arrives right in front of you in several days (or maybe faster than that). Well, I'm talking about the social medias that recently getting so damn popular among the societies. How it wholly influences our life to see people and to be seen by people we expect. Everything could happen in just a click, well, actually that's one miserable fact we'll soon understand.
bad influence of fast-paced technology to human beings
Socmeds removes the spaces, boundaries, obstacles and whatever takes people apart right away. It's amazing how you could talk to someone in the other side of the earth freely by your smartphones (that now seems to be the primary need of everyone, which implies if you have no smartphones or at least twitter or fb or instagram then you must live in the ice age). Can you imagine if internet connections, smartphones, or LINE, or WhatsApp were invented earlier in 1940s? It would be so much better that we don't need to waste our money doing such wars. Or if we're in the war, we could've won easily because we don't use telegram to talk to people which means there'll be less misunderstandings. Send direct messages to the other soldiers and even PING him/her if it's really urgent, group-chatting on WeChat about the tactic and strategy to bet the opposition, post the latest city condition via Instagram and even adding some filters to make it look outstanding, shop for AK-47 on the eBay, and so on. But sadly, social medias were found later in the 21st century, which gave huge impacts since then.
Nowadays, people just like getting on a race to register theirselves in as much socmeds as he can because they think the more socmeds, the more fellas, the more supporters, and the more you get known by people. Human beings are hungry of attention and this is where socmeds take big role in fulfilling it. Socmeds provide all of the facilities we expect in each of our interest. Photography, journalism, economic, politics, games, and so on. All of us with smartphone, internet connection, we could be the best in our sphere because socmeds anyway have given us a new way of competing with the others, only the range is being widened to the people throughout the world. Some of us take advantage of it, but some of us aren't. Maybe to them it's a good thing showing their cute faces so that people would start to chime in how pretty you are. But alas, I'm not that kind of person. I like taking pictures, but post my pictures eventually, because i think it would be a discomfort to my followers that they'd say 'why the hell do i have to see your face all the time'-things.
Nevertheless, still related to racing on socmeds, people started to race about how well-tech their devices are. Well, to me it's useless putting yourself on such kind of racing, why? Because technology keeps moving on as well as our life getting more complicated. Since technology invented for a more efficient life of human beings, somehow it removes our burdens little by little. But still, we should not label ourselves outdated if we have no latest type of Galaxy or even iPhone. And this is to be my problem living among people with their desires to always have the newest type of smartphones with well-equipped front camera and even monopod (in Indonesia known as TONGSIS), again, to distribute their power of cuteness with the caption 'good morning :)' on Instagram. To me, that's pretty embarassing. Some people out there suffer of malnutrition and here what you do is just wasting your money having such device you don't even understand how it works.
It's better for us having gadgets properly, i mean here gadgets that fulfill our needs in our occupations or daily livings, not to have them just to be known by 'the girl with the iPhone 5' and so on. Knowing that our country is not able to produce those gadgets yet (still not yet, but soon it will), which means that the more we buy branded gadgets it also increases the import rate of our country. And it's no good news.
But, the worst thing of all. Socmeds are medias to show the other side of someone, maybe the untold one. To some bunch of people it's a good news, but to some others taken it wrong. Me myself, i take it as a good news since i'm not good in storytelling and i'm tight-lipped and an anxiety dork and whatever i'm no good at real life, i show it through social media. I think that's why everyone keeps on telling me 'is this really you?' or 'you can't be the one posted this' because I'm being a-rather-rude-and-a-bit-radical me on socmeds. Sorry.
The other people would start to abuse the power of socmed itself. I mean, how can people who is literally 'quiet' on the real life could be so noisy on the socmeds?! It's like we have to know what they're doing right now, like the Earth has to know that you're taking shower on the bathroom, you're eating salad on the most expensive restaurant on town and sooo on. It's normal doing it sometimes, BUT NOT ALL THE TIME. Just a reminder that not all of your followers really want to follow you, i mean, following behind your back everywhere you go. Some of them just curious dweebs who only want to be stalkers of your life. If so, then let them be, but never let your privacy being threatened because you share way TOO MUCH on an unreal world that they will possibly think the unthinkable of us, making wrong perceptions which soon create misunderstandings. Because nobody would be responsible of it, nobody but you. Well, we don't want this to happen.
Sooo, teenagers why don't we start to be a bit wiser?
Using socmeds properly means taking care of ourselves, our privacy aaand doing it won't hurt anybody. Don't let the technology break our personalities down, take the advantages it provides, once again properly, and you'll really get helped. Don't let anybody hate you, don't let me hate you :p
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