When I say the Power of Social Media I don't necessarily mean the power it can have on society or anything like that. I'm talking about the power that you "think" it can give you.
Recently I've had a sort of a dramatic "falling out" with a really good friend of mine. He has never really been too aware of other people's feelings but that's okay. All of us can be selfish at times. But whenever he got angry with me (which was very frequently) he wouldn't ever try to work out the issue with me in person. He wouldn't even tell me that there was a problem to begin with. He would wait until he got home and got on Facebook before he would rip me a new one. Most of the things that he would say were incredibly rude and I know he would never say in person, which baffled me.
After this I decided to pay more attention to how people act on different social media. I began to notice that many people act very differently than they do in real life. A lot of people are more rude than they normally are, but interestingly enough I saw some people were nicer than they normally are. This blew my mind! Social media must give us a feel of anonymity and we feel like we can have a different life. Perhaps the life that we would want to have. Some people do it just for fun and to have a good laugh.
I still don't really understand why but now I'm more aware of this and how it can affect many people. Does social media change who you are?
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