Media and Society

The social media, such a controversial topic. This modern invention has become such a tremendous part of our every day life, I honestly could not imgine a world were it does not exsist. The social media is a whole new way of life, and people are both loving and hating it. Social media brings oppertunities that we have never had before, it is now possible to make a living of only posting pictures to instagram! It is actually pretty insane. You can have a whole carrier on the internet, and not having to do anything else for the rest of your life, this has become a job, and the people who do it are called influencers.

There are mant differents apps that qualify as social media, and they are constantly creating new apps and expanding the platforms. But the most popular ones must be Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Youtube and Facebook. People spend hours of their day going back and forth between these apps looking for entertainment, to communicate with other people, and constantly knowing what others are doing. Getting a hold of another person has never been so easy. People love social media, and they especially love to use it to show off the good life. You have not been on a hiking trip, or to a nice resturant, or on vacation, without it beeing documentet and portrayed on social media. Remeber back in the day when our parents would tell us not to post anywhere that we are going out of town, so the burgulers did not know that the house was empty? And now the first thing our parents do when we are going away, is to post it to facebook! I think it is safe to say that things have changed A LOT.

Social media sounds amazing does it not? But of course, there are multiple downsides to this concept aswell. Many people think that we have become overly addicted to social media, and it is probably true. I can hardly go an hour without checking my phone, and I can definitely not make it for a day without my phone. Social meida is beeing critized for makeing people stop living in the moment, it makes us miss out on what is actually going on around us, because we are to focused on getting it on camra or to show it off to others. Often on social media peolpe only like to share the good things, wich makes sense, but it can be very misleading at times. You are portraying yourself to be living this amazing life without any problems or insecjurities, when really you are just hiding your flaws from the internet. This is also concidered a problem, because it makes peolpe feel like their life will never be as good as the ones on social media. The same goes for the countless of Instagram models who photoshop their photos. This creates an extremely false bodyimage and is wrong in so many ways. It makes us feel insecure and bad about our selfs and our bodies, when really, the people who are posting those pictures dont look like that either.

In my personal opinion, I think social media is great. But that it goes without saying, that there is plenty of room for improvement.