Waking up in the morning every day, the first thing you do that you grab your phone, check all your social media accounts, see who liked your post, who replied to you, or who sent you a message, and we usually do that while staying in bed and before going up, at first it will look like that we are communicating and getting closer to people and actually that's not wrong but it might be for some others.

Yesterday I was on Reddit when I saw many people talking about social media effect on us as a society, and I could agree with some and disagree with others because you can't really judge since everyone is different, so I decided to bring up the reasons to see whether it tears us apart or not.

Bringing us together

As many people which I usually see as the majority thinks that social media always keep bringing us closer to each other and they have their own reasons that make their opinion right to them, and some of those reasons are: That we can contact people anytime and at any place, also they can share ideas and have a discussion with different people with different mentalities, and not going to forget that it's really so easy to remember your friends and people you want to talk to and as the last thing that you can meet people from all over the world easily.

Now that would be some convincing reasons but we are looking at it from one side, there the other side which isn't any less important than the one we mentioned.

Tearing us apart

We see many and many people nowadays not being able to communicate well or lack the basic skills of conversation which is mainly generated in the early years of our life, from school or university, and not need to mention the increasing amount of people who are socially awkward so it will be very hard to have a healthy or smooth conversation with them just because they aren't used to looking at someone's eyes while talking.

There is even worse, the people who are now scared of the outside world, all their life is digital, they don't go meet people, they don't go out to buy food or even buy essentials, they just order everything online while staying in their room and sometimes it escalates that they lose the communication with their families even though they are living in the same house and actually reaching this level is dangerous since they think that all the communicating will be through social media, they just send messages to other people but they don't bother meeting them if they get the opportunity.

Now that I showed what I think is good and what's bad about social media, I would love to hear what you think about it, or whether it's essential now or not.

Thanks for reading until next time.