Hi, Fellas! Long time no see. Do you miss me? Haha. Just
kidding!
Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp,
Line, Instagram, and etc. I bet you have used or at least known those things
since they were invented. Without any explanation, I truly know you know what
other people use to call them with. Social Media. It merely consists of two
words and eleven letters, yet it has more than two words and eleven letters
impacts on people’s daily lives. Those impacts have probably come to your mind,
who read this, right now. However, don’t only think about the good effects.
Good and bad are always hand in hand, you know. Without my writing about the
good sides of Social Media, you’ve already recognized, realized, or even felt
it at this moment when you read this essay. Because of that, in this essay, I
want to spread my ideas about the negative effects of Social Media. At least,
there are three bad impacts of Social Media to its users.
First of all, Social Media can
grow laziness to its users, especially users who are not mature enough. I say
so because when you are not mature enough, mostly, you are unable to think
wisely. You cannot decide what things which are good and the things that are
bad. Immature people mostly have same point of view: as long as the things they
do are fun enough for them, they will keep doing it. You want to deny it? If
you say, “Yes, I do.”, I want to tell you something further about it, then. I
used to not having any Social Media things. But, one day, I intentionally try
to “have a relationship” with Social Media. I made a twitter account because at
that time, twitter was so booming. I actually didn’t have an intention to make
a twitter account. It was my friend who try to force me to have it. I didn’t
know why since I made it, I found out that twitter was exciting. I could
interact with people I haven’t met before. It seemed as if the world became so
narrow. The ecxitement of twitter for me continued for a long time until one
day I found out I was totally addicted to twitter. It was my mom who told it
first. Then, I tried to think about my mom’s say whether it was right or not.
Unfortunately, it was right. I sometimes found out myself accidentally
refreshing my twitter page until there was at least one interaction with other
people. I also found out that I used to stalking my friends’ twitter account to
know what they were doing, what they were talking about with other people, and
etc. At that time, I felt like if I didn’t do those things, I didn’t feel
satisfied. I felt like doing those things instead of studying or doing
something useful was really important. When I realized it, I felt like a fool.
I felt like I was as if a jobless people who didn’t have any other things to do
except knowing other people’s things. It was so ridiculous. And you know what?
It made me realize that while I was trying to find out others’s activities, I
forgot my own activity. It was bad, you know. I’ve become a lazy person since I
used twitter. I used to procrastinated important things for twitter’s sake. I
used to be not doing my assignments well since I used to put things off. However,
since I’ve been asking my mom to warn me if I want to open twitter so that I
won’t open it too often than before, I’ve been feeling like I’ve been becoming
more diligent (again) lately. I’ve been starting to be not procrastinanting
anymore. Do you still want to deny my argumentation anymore?
The second bad effects is Social
Media can lead us to fight with other people, even with our best friends. I
often see it by my eyes. Usually, the fight starts by an allusion that can
provoke someone’s, who feel offended by it, anger. After that, the person who
feels ofended usually starts to show his anger towards the person who gives the
allusion whether the allusion is addressed to him or not, as long as it offends
him, he don’t care. Then, you know what happened next, don’t you? If the answer
is they will have a twitter-war, you’re exactly right. You know what? By doing
twitter-war, you don’t only have one adversary, yet you may have more than one
since usually friend(s) will try to stick up with their friend(s) in any
situations. As you can see, Social Media is a free place to show your ideas,
your thoughts, you feelings, and etc. Yet one thing is for sure. Think before
you write. If you cannot do that, it’s better for you not to use Social Media.
Otherwise, you’ll get this bad effect.
The third bad thing about Social
Media is this modern era thing can endanger the users. “What? It can endanger
us? How come? Oh, c’mon! It’s a dead thing, you know. It hardly can endanger
us!” If you think that way, you’d better shut up your mind and read this
carefully. I have already seen many cases that show me Social Media can pose us
threats. I want to tell you a case about this. There once a girl who met a guy
on the Twitter. After having a three days interaction with that guy, it seemed
like the girl had a crush on him. And so did the guy. After that first meeting,
they kept interacting on the twitter, even they also texted, exchanged email,
talked on the phone, and etc for a long time. One day, the boy asked the girl
to meet up and the girl accepted his wish. In the next day, they met up.
Unfortunately, this guy wasn’t a good guy. What happened next was the girl was
raped by the boy. Fortunately, the guy who did the sexual harassment had been
arrested by the police. It was horrible, wasn’t it? One message from me. Be careful
in using Social Media. Don’t be easily to be deceived. Don’t be evil to other
users.
All in all, Social Media has not
only good effects but also at least 3 bad effects. Social Media can bring
laziness, fights, and threats to its users. It’s better for you to know how to
overcome those three bad effects before you use Social Media if you don’t want
to get any troubles results from Social Media.
- Feen❤
