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Kira Permunian
As the Revolution Continues...
Years ago the most popular way of entertainment for students were hanging out with friends, walking around the parks and play sports. That was yesterday, when there were no online chat, no online games no social media sites! To the new generation, the youth, with the boom of technology, social media network takes part in bringing up the new society of today especially to the students. Different social media sites nowadays are the student’s new structure to get emotional support from peers. Blogs, Facebook, twitter, my space and others offer students a new way to communicate, share and explore the other side of the world. It’s not only for the promotion of one’s personality but also the advantage of having friends and diversity.
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| Social Media Revolution and Addiction |
Students do not find only social media websites for amusement though most of the time it is. Social media websites promotes learning, business, research and interaction. The sad thing is that most students do not see it that way. . Yes indeed we live in the modern world, we live in social technology world yet we failed to see the other side of social media that could effective to change the way our education system goes. Most of the students care about the newest updates, latest tweets, uploads, music and other latest issues. Even during school discussion some students couldn’t keep their mouth shut about what’s new on Facebook.
Eventually things lead to another and students never realized that they keep on tracking their status, checking updates as if obsessed with the feedbacks every minute, every hour. These things become a habit, and these habits become an addiction, a new conflict then rise. Addiction to drugs is already a society problem since ages and now on the 21st century a new addiction is formed.
Social media are great, fun and entertaining but when you say that you’re addicted to it, it’s the other way around. It was said that checking status, updates and being obsessed to it is the same with taking stimulants drug, you got addicted to it though social media is much better and safer. This social media addiction changes how students behave. Let just take for example during computer class I myself is a witness to it, the first thing they’ll visit the moment they sit in front of their monitors are Facebook, twitter or other accounts in which they can possibly find fun. Soon most students forget about learning and just dwell on enjoying. In most cases students get to be so attached to it that they find it hard to focus on schooling.
What’s really worst is that when they can’t live without it even just for a day.With growing social media site popularity, well definitely there’s no doubt that more and more people will see these behaviours most especially to students because they want to be always in.
We are called students because we want to learn and not just we always want to be in on what’s new. Though social media sites are already integrated in our lives, we students should also learn not to abuse it instead we should try to engage fun with learning and vice versa. Let these technologies be of enormous use and not of enormous abuse.
Gladys Myr Valdez Espiga is an essay writer and a content writer who loves to review about the latest in Information Technology especially on the social media revolutions. She currently is a member of SOURCE Interactive.
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