Social Media Presence: How Long Will It Last? (Ivatan)

Having a social media account can affect people in different ways either its good or bad.Social media changes people they could be more connected to friends and family or they'd be more of a mean person,gossiping,creating rumors,etc.People can change because of social media it really depend on what he/she reads.Social media to us is a way of entertainment, a way to past the time, etc. that's why we show something we read to friends.People post things that can affect whoever reads them; it's really what they post that's important.
Social media for me and how it affects my life is not that much, I rarely believe some of the things I read.People believe what they see and hear that is why people get affected by social media.My family and me have fun when browsing the internet; it connects us more as a family.Friends talk to each other via facebook,twitter,etc. but we could use this as a negative thing to others.We could use this to our advantage it's either good or bad; it really depends on your intentions.I think that social media does change a persons perspective with friends or family or life itself.

    I believe that having social media accounts affect us through being able to freely express ourselves without having to do so in our actual lives. I take having social media accounts as a good thing for it is a way of leisure for me, I get to be updated with the latest news or trends, I get to connect to people whom I may not be able to communicate with in actual life because they may be far away or busy, and I myself, get to share what I am feeling through tweets, status updates, and even through pictures. However, these can affect others differently than how it affects me, some people get addicted to these for they don't have the ability to limit their time online, some people post inappropriate things which do not do them or the people who see it any good. In shorter words, I believe that it is a benefit for me however it may be doing more harm than good for others.
   In my opinion, I think that social media teaches us to be more socially insensitive rather than be socially responsible, however I'm not saying that this is their initial mission I just think that starting fights and doing all these wrong things are easier to do on the internet. On the internet, we can be anonymous and leave hate on someone simultaneously, meaning we can insult someone without them knowing who we are, it's like stealing all the cookies from the cookie jar without anyone knowing, it's all the glory without the consequences. Even if we start a fight on the internet, we cannot get physically hurt unlike if we do so in actual life. We are tempted to be reckless on the internet because we know that it is easier to do so compared to doing it in real life. As a daughter, it allows me to be able to actively connect with my relatives and share my knowledge to my parents who refuse to have social media accounts, I get to update my parents with my uncles and aunts who do have Facebook, I can let my Aunt in California have a videochat with my Mother on Skype, I can let my Uncle in Guam joke with my Dad through Facebook message like in the old times. I also get to search things for them when they are curious about something online. As a friend, I get to post pictures and memories with my other friends, I can tweet something good about them, and I can also like their Instagram photos, I get to be updated with what they're up to especially if they're from other schools and I get to help my classmates who don't understand a certain topic. As a student, we use Edmodo where we can submit our homework and check for updates and reminders from our teachers. In other words, I believe that my presence on social media is an advantage through most aspects of my life. 

Social Media is not just any other thing because it can cause a lot of things, negatively and positively. The effect depends on your actions. It’s always your choice if you'll use it for the better or the worse. Every time we use it we are already responsible for whatever the outcome would be, it was never someone else's responsibility but ours. For students, every time we use it usually serves as a distraction. Instead of us doing our HWs or reviewing for any quizzes of tests we tend to use the internet for entertainment and for inter acting with other people. This is the part when it becomes dangerous, in this era there are already a lot of cases that includes cyber-crime and the victims are usually students. We tend to be the ones who make our problem but we just don't realize it, we only realize it when we have already seen the outcome and instead of fixing it we end up blaming it on others. Have you ever asked yourself, "why did I even do it?" and when we do, we don't even know how to answer it. Every time we use it we should always think of what might possibly happen, don't just think of your own happiness think of others' too. We don't realize that we sometimes hurt other people because of what we are posting of sending. For us, it's just for fun but, when you hurt others do you think they are having fun? NO. +As a daughter it affects me greatly because, every time I use it I tend to forget doing my responsibilities that I later on realize that should have done it first before doing anything else; this affects my relationship with my family, because instead of me spending time with them during family time I find myself using the internet again and because of that, sometimes I miss those times that I should've spent with them. I know that by missing my chance to be with them I can make them sad because it's not every day that I can spend my time with them, we are all busy in our own ways but we should always give our spare time to our family and friends. Using it really affects students a lot because we don't realize that we are already wasting our time that we should have used for doing school words and because of that we end up cramming that affects a big part of our grades and thus, it also affects our future in every-way that it can. But, it's your choice if you'll allow that to happen or not, will you choose to manage your time wisely or will you allow it break you slowly? Social media is one of the causes of problems between friends. It depends on how you used it because, we don't know up to what point people can be sensitive. We don't know because everyone change not only physically but emotionally. We know that when we hurt others it doesn't only affect them but everything they do that at some point we can also be affected by their doings so, we should always think about the things we do and we should be wise and sensitive enough to know when we are already hurting someone.



To sum things up, for be social media it harms us more than it benefits us. Yes, I admit that we learn a lot of things from it and we benefit from the things we learn too. But, when it harms us, it really hurts us; everyone including you, your friends, family and sometime even the people who you don't even know that are innocent. As we commit mistakes, we also learn from them and use it as a lesson that we can put into practice for our everyday lives. We learn to be responsible, yes I agree but as we become more familiar in using it we can't deny the fact that it sometimes makes us irresponsible and insensitive. And yes it help us to be able to interact with people more that can build us some of our confidence and self-esteem. But, as we build ourselves up we can't avoid also taking up the risk that we might be in danger because sometimes it can lead to crimes being committed that we all want to avoid but we can't. In everything we do we should always be mindful of every decision that we make especially at times that we need to make choices that can affect us for a life-time.

I, myself, admit that I use more than 5 social medias a day for entertainment and communication with friends and family. Although these keep me from being boring, there are many disadvantages a social media can have. Social medias can affect our lives depending on how we use it it may be good or bad. Having a social media account takes a lot of responsibility and discipline especially when posting and commenting. For my opinion, I think it harms us more than it benefits us because there are many people who hacks, asks personal information, and a lot more, even though at times it entertain us and let us interact with our loved ones. Even if we say it actually brings happiness in our lives, we don't know what can happen.. We don't know what will happen in the future.



Social medias teach us responsibility and discipline especially in what we post and comment on our and others' pictures/posts. Social medias affect me as a daughter, friend and a student by actually thinking about what others think about me. Social medias also affect my grades because it can be a distraction to my studies. Whenever people send hates on me, I think about them all day that I couldn't concentrate and focus in school. It also affects my attitude on how I become very careful of what I say, think and feel. We shouldn't be insensitive with others' feelings because they're humans too and they have feelings too. If you, yourself, sometimes get hurt or offended with what others tell you, I believe that others, too, get hurt. Each and everyone of us in this world deserves to be respectful and respected. We were made equally, no greater, no lesser. I hope that everyone gets to have the respect they deserve because we all have the rights to be respected. I prefer, for others, not to create anymore because it will do further harm on us especially on social medias when we don't know who sent us a message (an example is ask.fm). Even though at times when people say it's actually "cool" to have a social media, I don't think that these days? It's cool? No, it's not. Although it can be our entertainment, it lets us communicate with others, games, and others, I believe it can also lead us to danger, insensitiveness, not being respectful and it can also lead us to being kidnapped. Do not give any personal information, password, pictures that aren't appropriate, and do not open sites that aren't suitable for your age.





Welcome to reality, everyone.