Social media is a sharing network that turned into an ocean and absorbed socializing, communication, visuality, art and artist, commerce, advertisement and even the politics. Each one of us form the little drops in that ocean with each sharing or publication. In social media, every drop has a different color because it belongs to a different person or topic. And just like an ocean, it shelters millions of lives in it. Just like waves hitting the shore, every user leaves a trace behind them on social media. Through social media, thousands of miles are not far anymore and you can find yourself in the middle of a global communication. We created a world that we can live with a deep realization and also express it freely. Social media was like a public transport that carried sociality to the virtual world at the beginning. Then, those who went to the virtual world never came back and these transports turned to an one-way train. This phenomena met with lots of different both negative and positive analysis and comments.
Social media is a platform that millions of people can join their hearts as one, react, protest, share in just a few seconds. It also has a feature that dragged the communication to the digital world. This feature carries a high importance and emotional value when it connects you and your relatives who are far away from you. However, there is a thin line that we can’t clearly see in social media usage. If we can’t realize this line, we can easily lose ourselves in it and we can look like a coding in social media. As fake and false statements replace our daily lives, we could turn into a being that automatically shares daily stuff without any feeling. We might even forget to look at the sky, because we have its simulation in our hands.
By gathering the critical mediums such as technology, advertisement, tourism and commerce in the same place, social media’s importance has risen over the roof and it turned into a very significant sharing network. If it’s properly used, this power can create amazing changes and differences in the world. If the risks of it are ignored, we might not realize our mistake until it’s too late. Now that you can synthesize all of these factors and possibilities in your head, let’s ask you this: is social media that important?