âThe Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individualâ
In this generation, we are now using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. to communicate and connect with other people without going outside of our homes. Due to evolving technology, we are now adapting and accepting these changes that give us a lot of benefits which at the same time, have its downside. When these things come up, we now have the capability to multitask, work faster to finish things, and to be more efficient in time. In this midst of the pandemic, many of us weren't able to go outside and should stay at home to prevent the virus from spreading. Social media plays a crucial role in helping us stay connected with our friends and to those people who werenât able to see us due to this crisis. Social media really helps each individual in making communication more efficient and easier for everyone.
All along with the good side of social media, it also has its own bad side. Despite all its benefits for us, there are also potential issues that we canât really do anything about. Social media itself is not a problem at all. But on how people will use it. These days, especially us Gen-Z, are being so exposed in social media. The worst part here is where many people now use these platforms to earn or to have other peopleâs approval for their appearance or compare themselves to others. The other very alarming thing about these platforms is nowadays, we rely mostly on information that we will see online. But some information there is not that accurate and will just lead us to be more confused at all. Social media platforms could also make us be manipulated. Many of us now, especially Gen-Z, spend a lot of time scrolling through social media. This is why many young ones these days are more depressed, experience anxiety, and other bad effects because of what they are seeing there that might make them feel worthless or something, that isn't even true. What we need to do is we should limit and know how to control ourselves by using these platforms so that we wonât fall into its rabbitâs hole, that wonât even give any good benefits for us.
















