In language and literature the other day, we watched a documentary called Generation Like which was about how social media plays a huge role in advertainment. Social media today is ever getting so popular and nowadays people are using social media to get through with their identity and basically they are using social media as if it were their passport or their ID card where it displays every single little thing about them from birth place to favourite music to places they have visited.
I don't feel that social media can really empower people, social media is just used to stay in contact with friends, family etc (the only reason why I have facebook and skype accounts). Making friends of facebook or getting retweeted on twitter doesn't really empower you or change your life, sure it can make one feel better in a way but the use of the word "empower" is just overstated in the documentary. Feeling empowered would generally come when you make an impact in this world or achieve some of the highest honours in whichever field you decided to go into, social media just makes people addicted and drifts their life into a completely new world and changes their mindset and basically changes their thinking and who they really are. Social media over the years is consistently dragging along young teenagers into their own planet named Facebook or Instagram etc.
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Teenagers feeling empowerment are basically just feeling happy and rewarded by social media from earning likes or followers and getting followers and likes will surely make you happy but it does not make a living for you in life and empowerment can possibly come through facebook or twitter because some people may have low self esteem so likes or followers can make them feel better overall and make them happier. I feel that teenagers are addicted to social media and are really basing their life around social media and the apparent love and passion of just using social media just make the people themselves feel empowered and has their self esteem boosted.
I don't feel that social media can really empower people, social media is just used to stay in contact with friends, family etc (the only reason why I have facebook and skype accounts). Making friends of facebook or getting retweeted on twitter doesn't really empower you or change your life, sure it can make one feel better in a way but the use of the word "empower" is just overstated in the documentary. Feeling empowered would generally come when you make an impact in this world or achieve some of the highest honours in whichever field you decided to go into, social media just makes people addicted and drifts their life into a completely new world and changes their mindset and basically changes their thinking and who they really are. Social media over the years is consistently dragging along young teenagers into their own planet named Facebook or Instagram etc.
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Teenagers feeling empowerment are basically just feeling happy and rewarded by social media from earning likes or followers and getting followers and likes will surely make you happy but it does not make a living for you in life and empowerment can possibly come through facebook or twitter because some people may have low self esteem so likes or followers can make them feel better overall and make them happier. I feel that teenagers are addicted to social media and are really basing their life around social media and the apparent love and passion of just using social media just make the people themselves feel empowered and has their self esteem boosted.
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