What a day and age we live in. WIth technology growing, the cyber world spreading wouldn 't interactions upon this realm be mandatory. Social media has become a new way of life spawned in the last decade of the “old world.” Anything whether it be advertising, spreading news, or spending time with friends and loved ones rides on the rails of this circumnavigational train. My goal in this paper is to highlight more so the history of, pros, as well as cons of, and my first hand experience with social media.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Friendster opens the door. As a prelude to social media taking off, the internet boom in the 1980s-2000s set the stage for this phenomena. People dreamed and hoped for a world of online banking, of constantly updating news, …show more content…
Watching everyone with their phones out, constantly getting notifications upon tags, within hashtags and tweets, these social networks pull my generation, among others, in like a fly to a bug zapper. These social media platforms have take the reality of real life sociality and deemed it with a major anti. As everyone is eager to get on their phones to be apart of the “latest trend”, or the “hottest viral vid,” it puts distance toward reality and face to face interaction. It has bred an existence of isolation and self centered mentalities. Everyone is apart of it, as not being “connected” would be cutting the umbilical cord to the mother of sociality that has been created due to social media.
CONCLUSION
It is apparent that social media is a vital cog in the world we know today. It has rooted itself a part of a reality, or artificial reality, depending on how you look at it, in such a way, pulling nutrients in to stimulate trunk and branch growth, so that it cannot be taken out. AFter examining the history of how it came to be, with the how they hoped before its conception a world governed by social media; Now that we live in that “once hoped for reality,” it will be interesting to see where it goes from here and how life will be governed at a later
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Friendster opens the door. As a prelude to social media taking off, the internet boom in the 1980s-2000s set the stage for this phenomena. People dreamed and hoped for a world of online banking, of constantly updating news, …show more content…
Watching everyone with their phones out, constantly getting notifications upon tags, within hashtags and tweets, these social networks pull my generation, among others, in like a fly to a bug zapper. These social media platforms have take the reality of real life sociality and deemed it with a major anti. As everyone is eager to get on their phones to be apart of the “latest trend”, or the “hottest viral vid,” it puts distance toward reality and face to face interaction. It has bred an existence of isolation and self centered mentalities. Everyone is apart of it, as not being “connected” would be cutting the umbilical cord to the mother of sociality that has been created due to social media.
CONCLUSION
It is apparent that social media is a vital cog in the world we know today. It has rooted itself a part of a reality, or artificial reality, depending on how you look at it, in such a way, pulling nutrients in to stimulate trunk and branch growth, so that it cannot be taken out. AFter examining the history of how it came to be, with the how they hoped before its conception a world governed by social media; Now that we live in that “once hoped for reality,” it will be interesting to see where it goes from here and how life will be governed at a later