Scrolling through Buzzfeed, I saw one article that caught my
eye. It was entitled “This Video Will Convince You To Never Use Social Media Ever Again.” That’s a pretty
confident title of an article, I thought to myself, so I clicked on it.
The video is by rapper Prince Ea and is entitled “Can We
Auto-Correct Humanity?” Prince Ea starts subtly rapping about how social media
has caused us to disconnect from others.
He targets “Mr. Zuckerberg” and says “You should reclassify
Facebook to what it is, an anti-social network, because while we may have big
friend lists so many of us are friendless—all alone because friendships are
more broken than the screens on our very phones.”
I definitely agree with him when he says he “doesn’t want to
spoil a precious moment by recording it with a phone.” I think some people are
more concerned about getting a selfie of the situation than actually enjoying
themselves with the people they are with. As Prince Ea says, “technology has
made us more selfish and separate than ever.”
I also thought it was a little ironic that the guy rapping
about how social media posted this video on YouTube and became viral on
Facebook. However, it did make me stop and think. Are we really in a world of
“digital insanity?” Is this a time of “losing touch” because of touch screens? Or
is technology actually bringing us closer like it promises us?
I think our generation should watch this video. I don’t
think it will cause us to “never use social media again,” but I do think we
will reevaluate how much we use it around other people and how we should
cherish real life moments. We cannot “auto-correct humanity,” but we can decide
how we want to use social media from here on out.
Watch the video and decide for yourself.
Watch the video and decide for yourself.
Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI think using social media in today's world is a double-edged sword. For example: I like it when other people add to their Snap Stories on Snapchat because it gives me a good way to keep up with their lives even if I don't talk to them everyday. However, I refuse to post to my own Snap Story because I don't want to get so focused on needing to update my Story that I neglect or take away from a moment in my life I will never get back. I don't often live tweet events or post to social media while with friends and family because, in my opinion, it can wait. I would rather fully enjoy what is going on around me than worry about if my picture posted to Instagram with the right filter and hashtags.
Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI love your article, because I have always felt that social media is killing society. I hate it when people are on their phones instead of living in the moment. I also don’t understand the desire for people to display their life online to the entire world. With that being said, there are obviously positives to social media. After watching “Craigslist Joe”, I realized that social media has the power to bring people together. Truthfully, it is the people using the tools that are causing all of the harm, not the tools itself.