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Well, this is just kind of random talk and fact based on what I know. So the best thing you’ve got to do is just enjoy and read this meticulously.
For some people the option for not to have a social media
or IM is kind of weird because now social media becomes part of life which is
hard enough to be separated. Have you ever got bored just because your phone is
running out of data or no wi-fi? Or what about you forgot your phone at home,
what are you gonna do?
I often find my friends lower their head checking their phone probably twice or over every one minute when we are gathering. I don’t even know what they’re checking, tapping or even scrolling, how many apps installed on their phone, yeah of course none of my business. But it seems uncomfortable when I check everybody around; oh they’re busy with the thing on their hand instead of talking each other. Yeah, such this situation make me hopeless sometimes, I wish I can find a friend that seriously pay attention to the partner he/she is talking to with no grabbing any gadgets on hand.
Here I don’t say that I am anti gadget and anti social
media, not at all, but I just feel ashamed when all time I have is consumed for
a thing called phone unless really urgent. It looks like not fair if I completely
blame a phone. It is not about what, it is about how, how you can manage your
time, how you can use your social media, how you can treat people around you.
The main problem is not only you and your smartphone but
also you with other things which are not too important. I maybe don’t care with
what people share on their status on social media or IM so that is why I am not
interested to have account of every social media or instant messaging unless
really urgent, as usual. In fact, social media is very consuming our time,
realise or not, you will feel uncomfortable with status that others share and
appear in your social media. However it is created to make you wonder what
people share, post, and comment.
You may often hear and see others bullying, doing some
hate speech or negative comments, revealing some things that shouldn’t be
revealed to public, body shaming, and other negative deeds on social media
which can drag you into punishment at the end. Not only that but also when
you’re included to a group which doesn’t give you any good by somebody and you
find everybody’s just talking rubbish in it instead of discussing something
useful.
But in the other side, a smartphone can be very helpful; of
course if you use it wisely, it can help your works, as well as social media,
it is just like a knife, it just depends on you, if you use it well it can give
you a benefit, but in reverse, if you use it arrogantly it will make you feel worse.
To be honest, I am just typical who is selective to have
social media, there are so many social media that are familiar but I just have
to know which one is appropriate for me, sometimes I would rather not to have
it, so I think you don’t need to have account in every social media which you
think those are popular right now. I just try to not care about what people
have, do, wear, buy, where people travel, instead I prefer to build a new habit
like reading and writing because both them can make me feel happy, however I
would rather talk to people directly face to face than through social media or
IM.
Sometimes you just need a time to put yourself into
introspection, and not to give attention on unnecessary things excessively that
you found on social media or in your real life. You just need to focus on a
thing around you, a thing which is important and can make your life happy and
meaningful.
After all, I find a lesson from this all is we just treat
others like the way we want to be treated by others, respect each other no
matter what they are, just say something positive instead of bullying or make
someone offended, something we might consider as a joke but not for one we’re
talking of. If we don’t have a nice word to be told better we just shut up,
because one has to be careful with what he/she says. Instead of talking rubbish
or gossiping our friend better we just do something useful for ourselves and our
future.
One more, having account of every social media is not
banned because each has different importance, but we only need to be smart how
to use it wisely and not being addicted by it.
