I was born in the year 1990, considered to be a Millennials Generation. I am comfortable with digital technologies and social media. My first encounter with social media is when I was at the age of 14. The first account of social media for me was Friendster. In my early life before social media was introduced, communication was not as easy as it is now. If I want to talk to my friends, I have to do so by face to face interaction, wrote them letters or I need to have their numbers to call them via telephone. However, with the invention of social media, it is use as a platform to make communication become easier and larger. I get to know and communicate with people not just from Singapore but also around the world.
As time goes by, technology has made our life simpler. With the invention of smart phone, we as human being depends so much on technologies that we have grown attach to it. Technology has become a necessity for all of us and we can’t live without it. I believe that life is like a battery, which has the existence of positive and negative sides. Same goes to social media, nothing can be perfect
The positive side of having social media is that it helps me to remain in contact with my friends. It allows people to find others with similar interests as themselves whom they can create a relationship with and get to know each other. Social Media helps us to share music, videos, pictures, blogging and messaging as well as posting our ideas and stories. It benefits businesses which allows businesses to advertise and market services to a large number of audiences.
Negative effect of social media is not in comparison to the positive. I believe that the positive effects of social media is more compared to negative effects. Firstly, the negative opinion I have about social media is that it reduces socialising time by face to face as there are online interaction. So there’s a lesser need of meeting up with friends. Next, is the risk it course as the information you share to the public might hurt you in the future when you try to get a job. Your future employers will view your social media before you are selected. The worse is that it also can lead to cyber bullying which can cause depression and decreased of your social skills.
Hasbullah Royhan 