Discussion Participants: Amanda, Mia, Laura, Isabella, and Adam
In the group discussion, we talked about the negative impact of social media on the daily lives of people. We discussed how, instead of enjoying the moment people start recording the moment and drift away from the actual experience. We also talked about how social media distorts reality. For example, Instagram shows people living a happy and perfect life but behind the curtain, they could be sad and depressed. Therefore, we concluded that social media takes the happiness out of people and puts pressure on the people to display a perfect life. We also talked about how ironic social media is because the purpose of social media is to socialize but people rather get distracted by social media and don’t actually socialize in real life. At last, we talked about how all of these problems can affect a person’s mood and attitude. I think the use of social media should be minimized and more focused on the fact to socialize and not to judge other people.
