Social Media Concerns

Concerning Interactions using Social Media

What's the use of Social Media?

People all around the world use social media pretty much every single day. It has become such a popular tool to use in everyday life. The use of social media apps on smart devices allows people to connect from all over the world and has become a rather important tool for businesses to advertise. People tend to use these for entertainment, learning, using creative ideas from others, and also just communicating with other people.

Why interactions through social media is a concern:

Interacting on social media can be fun and can lead to many positive things or assistance from friends. However, some tend to use this type of communication to treat others rather terribly. If you use social media then you have seen the unnecessary comments made by insecure people and you know what I mean. Every single day you can look on some type of social media and see discrimination, or just straight bullying by people who have no respect or reason to comment on someone because they are not any better than anyone else. Sometimes hazing on social media can become so bad that it can lead to suicide. 

The use of social media brings so much more drama and stress into people's lives as well. With all the sub-tweets about people and tweeting of problems with relationships just so that that person can gain some type of attention, which in some cases attention is needed to help a problem but posting a vague tweet on twitter about your problem is not the attention that is needed to help with this problem, it is just a way for the person that posts it to have some attention because people today tend to always seek/need some kind of attention whether be good or bad. People tend to be more brave about commenting on something through social media rather than in person because they are not around the person at that time and for some reason people seem to act like they are a lot tougher when they are on twitter talking crap to someone because everyone can see what they say. This all comes back to wanting/needing some sort of attention. Everyone wants to be popular and have thousands and thousands of followers on every single social media app. Social media causes drama in relationships, as well. One side of the couple will tweet, retweet, or favorite something that is used to be secretly directed toward the other side of the relationship and then that couple starts fighting and its all just unnecessary. Some couple's today tend to care more about how many likes they get on a picture of them together on Instagram rather than how happy they are with that person when they are actually with them. The use of man crush monday's and women crush wednesday's cause so much drama between couples too. This is because if you do not post a picture showing that your "crush" on a certain day isn't the person you are in a relationship with then jealousy or annoyance seems to come into effect because people want that attention. Relationships today are based so much on what other people see on social media. Like for instance, today people want you to brag about them on social media by posting pictures about them and saying how happy you are with them, whereas I would say the more "traditional" way of showing your love off and how you appreciate that person by taking them somewhere and being polite and gentleman-like and showing how happy you are in person and not caring what others say about you because your happiness and the happiness of the other person you are in love with should be what matters the most. NOT what other people think about how good you look or how annoying of a couple you are on social media. There's so much drama and so many things that are so unnecessary about interacting through social media and people become so caught up in it that it is ridiculous. I tend not to use social media too much because I'm not interested in any of the drama that comes along with it. Occasionally, I use it to see how people are doing that I have not talked to in a while or to tag people in something that relates to common interests but that's about it. The negative affects of bullying, harassment, and drama can lead to extremely negative results and that's why I'm concerned with interacting through social media.