End of Privacy : Social media networks have taken control over our private lives.

  

   Something called privacy in our modern time is no longer exist due to online social media networks. Now the hidden truth which only few people are aware of, is that online social media networks such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Google+ they allow us to connect with our friends, family, and even strangers for free, yet the scary part is that this connectivity is funded by selling our personal information to the marketing companies. Normally in business a person who uses a product is called a client but when it comes to social media networks, it does not hold true, we are the product that is being sold to their clients that of  the marketing companies.

   

   I still remember when I was a kid things were very simple, at that time social media did not exist. Everything was kept private to illustrate this, the pictures we took with our families and friends are kept in albums and people who have access to them were very few. But with the modern age things have changed people started to share everything online about their lives, I mean their personal lives. Hence nothing is private anymore. It can be said that people become addicted to feed their timeline on social media with everything and anything they are doing all day long for example sharing pictures of the food they eat, places they have been to, family issues. Therefore, it is as if social media networks have taken a total control over our lives Even more our personal lives are  being displayed on the internet. The problem is that we share stuff with  a bunch of people that we do not know, mainly with strangers seeking validation and feedback. Here is my advice that  you may not want to hear but I am going to say it anyway, the only way out of this is to be conscious of our behaviors, try to keep our business to ourselves and stop inviting the evil eye. Believe me this piece of advice will improve your life and makes you feel better about yourself too.

   I am not against social media networks, I use them too and I must confess that they are very useful, this piece of writing will be diffused and many people throughout the world will have the chance to read it and this of course thanks to social media networks. I am just trying to be frank with you and inviting you to reconsider your usage of these tools, I would say you do not  need to feel the pressure to put everything online about your life seeking validation and compliments that is somehow would affect your self-esteem for instance, once we start to depend on social media networks to gain self-worth the results might be very disappointing when we do not get the number of the likes and comments we wanted to get and then our self-esteem will suffer.

   

     As a conclusion be conscious of what you are doing, and do not  let yourself get  caught up in the matrix, live your life free from the burdens created by social media. Because seriously you are great.

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Mass Media Effects on Us,,,Mass Media destroys us!

      It is the time to stop being just consumers of media products. Actually media has changed us and affected our perceptions at different levels, what was wrong turned to be right and vice versa. Hence, in my opinion the only way out of this, is through developing a filter that would help us to better analyze and evaluate anything we might find ourselves subjected to. The filter would stand as our point of reference so as to avoid getting overwhelmed by all the messages conveyed by media. One has to bear in mind that most of the things that we see, hear, or read in media is not always true, so we need to be too cautious while consuming their info. It is very important to mention that every single message being sent to us was first designed and then disseminated by professional people who know how we think. Even more they can foresee the kind of influence that their message will be leaving in us.

Here are two examples that truly prove what has been said above:

    1)    Movies That legitimize the act of suicide and make of it such a great thing, instead of picturing it as an awful thing. I did my research and I was perplexed by the hundreds of the movies I found about this particular issue, and how the movie-makers depicted people who made this suicidal behavior as heroes or shereos, which is too bad. I myself I witnessed this crime, in my neighborhood I have heard of some teenagers, who had committed it, the question that always popes into my head: where those immature people brought this idea from? I will leave this question for you open-ended!

               2)    The way women are depicted in media mainly as objects and nothing else more, so all you ladies out there don’t get mad if we treated you as our properties or something that we own. In other words women’s body is being used to increase purchases and selling. And I am telling you this is how it is going to be like or even gets worse, if we don’t wake up and try to see behind the surfaces.

As a conclusion influence is there whether you like it or not, but at least being aware of it and how it processes would help to minimize the damages.

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