Social media and the People

 In this age of technological advancement, it shouldn’t be surprising that people are using social media to “connect” with others. When I set up my Instagram account (against my will), I immediately received a message from someone whom I haven’t seen since middle school, which came as a shock to me. It wasn’t that I was shocked that somebody from my past found me on social media--I was just surprised that she found me so quickly.

The ability to find people with a mere search bar is one of the most fascinating things about social media, as well as the most dangerous. It’s all well and good if you’re looking up someone you used to be friends with, or if you’re just looking for that casual friendship that comes from liking and boosting certain posts; it’s quite another thing when the searcher is somebody who has less than benevolent intentions. That’s not even getting into the friend requests from people you either don’t know or don’t like, or the people make social media their own personal battlefield. In my opinion, social media is a tool that you have to be careful with, which is a definition that varies from person to person.