Laura, Adam, Amanda, Isabella, Mia
Can social media effect your reputation? At this discussion we talked about how social media effects us mentally, physically, and emotionally as well as how it effects our experiences through life. Instead of admiring the moment, we have the first instinct to take out our phones and capture it that way. This distracts us from really living any of the experience. It was agreed upon in the discussion that our phones/ cameras is not as good as living the mental and physical experience in the moment. We all said we may miss some of the moment while focusing on our phones. They are distracting and cause more harm than good in many ways. Social media effects many things. We are all worried about our post, how many likes it gets, and what others think of it that it may cause our social media accounts to be a false representation of who we really are and instead portrays what we want others to think we are. We also discussed that it is ironic that the term social media doesn’t actually require socializing. It is because of this that we all adapted into people who find it harder to keep up a conversation than send a text message. Social media essentially made us anti-social.. Walker Percy had talked about how the experience gets influenced by the media and I agree that it does as well.
