We are ushering in the era of advanced technology with a sense of freshness and dependency. Few decades experienced the technological explosion in computing which paved the way for the social media as we see today. Until the year of 2006, Facebook was launched and became the most popular social media networks on the Internet and in the world. After the birth of Facebook, a variety of social networks rose and joined the fray. The massive rise of social network has marked an end to traditional media to some extent and revolutionized human communications. It is undeniable that social media brings us valuable opportunities and benefits that traditional media fails to do. Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. It provides a mean to meet new people and make friends beyond geographical obstacles and maximize exposures to groups of people who share passions and interests. Some social networks also provide a platform to access to a large network to find a suitable job. Due to the great benefits and the rapid development of social media, our society has witnessed a vivid spectrum of how social media and technology changes not only our individual life but society as a whole. Social media has afforded people opportunities to voice their opinions and share their thoughts that can reach a large community of millions people. Hence, social media becomes an extremely useful tool to deal with the challenges encountered by the world such as human rights violations, climate change. The MeToo movement is an example of the use of s
ocial media to provide a space and mean for everyone to participate in humane campaigns. The movement virally began to spread in 207 as a hashtag on social network and acted as a strong movement against sexual harassment and assault and supported survivors. In terms of businesses, social media has afforded companies to promote their products and connect with their potential customers. Companies can take advantage of social media to respond to customer complaints and provide customer service in real time, which in turn will increase loyalty among customers and quality in customer service.
However, we, as a younger generation, are becoming so highly dependent on technology and social media usages that we could barely survive without smartphones and the Internet. We spend a great amount of time on Facebook, Instagram meeting people, chatting and gradually escaping the real life. We prioritize media communication over face-to-face interaction and deteriorate our social skills. The urge to be accepted, praised, and liked by so-called online friends on social media has led people to be the version that will be accepted and welcomed by the majority on the media. Therefore, social media becomes an outlet to operate things anonymously. We lose trust of people on the Internet and social media becomes an invisible weapon to verbally attack others. Moreover, we will lose ourselves and eventually gain truth in our own lies while we try to elaborate our profiles and crystalize our lives. When lies shape our identity, do we still have a self?