In this video they show the product of social media. Social media is a very new concept of communication. From it being so new it has had a lot of influence on people. The influence can be positive and it can also be very negative. They first start the video off with a woman waking up and getting ready. The only thing is she does not get fully ready. She gets back into bed to take a picture as if she just woke up. This woman has started her day off as a lie. As soon as she posts a picture of herself other people start to question their life styles and decide to also post a picture lying about their lives. They do this so their lives look more interesting than they actually are. For example they lie about activities they have done, how healthy they are, and how organized they are. For this it only shows the best parts of peoples lives, instead of the real parts. Instead of people actually enjoying these activities they fake them to get likes on their posts. This is very sad because they are not enjoy what actually could come out of these events all they care about are people seeing them to get jealous, to get likes, and to not be happy with their own lives.
In class lectures we learned about social media. We learned that the media has grown very big and at a very fast rate. In the media we have all sorts of things because people are allowed to post and share whatever they would like. From this it is making it very powerful and important in the social institutions. This means it is getting so big in social institutions it has been connected to our leisure time. Back a couple years ago leisure was associated with going out in public and making our own fun. For examples boating, hiking, and golfing. Now our leisure is associated with being by ourselves and paying for things. For an example of leisure now days it is staying at home and watching Netflix, or being in bed and scrolling through Instagram. The Internet has gotten so big that the government is trying to pass laws on regulating the Internet and what we can do. Just how cable has different plans on different channels you can watch, they are trying to do that with the Internet. This is so we have to pay for different plans and then we will be limited with what we can access. The government is trying to do this because they now we are so connected to social media that we would pay ridiculous prices to keep it that way. Social media is a great new technology, but it has so much control over our lives.
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