Has Social Media Taken Over Our Daily Lives? - My Thoughts

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I was at work way back and the kids in the class I worked with back then had to compose a Tweet and write no more than 66 words. Yep, wouldn’t have a problem with that cause I use Twitter on a daily basis. But one girl put her hand up and said “I don’t know what Twitter is”. Of course, most of the class are aghast and gasped in astonishment. 

But it made me think, has social media taken over our lives, particularly the younger generation?

I mean, this girl doesn’t know what Twitter is (well, she does now) and I think that the fact she had never heard of it was quite refreshing to hear. She hasn’t let social media be the entire reason she’s eager to leave school at 3:15pm.


When I was in school, social media wasn’t a huge phenomenon like it is today. Facebook had recently just become the in thing. Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat never even existed. MySpace was slowly going out of fashion and Bebo was at its peak before it declined not long after I left comp in 2009.


Nearly every Internet-y and WiFi-ess thing we do involves social media in some form. It is absolutely astounding how much social media has taken over us and our daily lives.


Don’t get me wrong, I love using social media and it most definitely has its good uses and values. It does help me a lot in my everyday life and it is valuable in that respect. I use it to promote my blog posts and talk to different people and check on how they're doing and congratulate them on their latest achievements. But I see these people who literally have their phone superglued to their hand (like I am now writing this post) and can’t stop thumb scrolling.

Seriously, has it become a life essential to have and use some form of social media platform? Well, in the defence of others, some people rely on their phones for other different reasons. Whether it's using Maps to guide them around, using the Calendar to write down their next appointment, or setting the Alarm for the morning and so many other reasons.


We have that Screen Time function on our iPhones now. But does it really make us stop, put our phones down and actually communicate face-to-face with the people around us? It does give us a stark reminder of how much we have used our phones throughout the day, but I don't think it really stops us from using them or scrolling through social media.

 It just reminds us to put our phones down for a few minutes before we agree with ourselves that we have given ourselves a break and go back on our phones again!


But yeah, we mainly use it to Pin pictures on Pinterest, see what's trending on Twitter and watch Style Videos on Instagram. 

To sum up, I think social media has taken over us. 

I'm on my phone way too much and I need to step away from it as much as I can.


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Do you think social media is taken over our lives?

 

 

Lucy

 

 

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