Neglecting Family and Responsibilities

Social media refers to websites and applications that are designed to allow people to share content quickly, efficiently, and in real-time. While many people access social media through smartphone apps, this communication tool started with computers, and social media can refer to any internet communication tool that allows users to broadly share content and engage with the public (Hudson, 2020). Maybe this is how we commonly define social media, a super useful and easiest way of transmitting messages towards other people. In fact, the process of communicating with friends and family across long distances has been a concern of humans for centuries. People are labelled as social animals; people have always relied on communication to strengthen their relationships, share their feelings and thoughts and vice versa. When face-to-face discussions are impossible or inconvenient, people used to find couple of ways in making interactions happen. It’s like nothing would hinder them. According to Jew Hendricks, the roots of social media stretch far deeper than you might imagine. Although it seems like a new trend, sites like Facebook are the natural outcome of many centuries of social media development. Before 1990, The earliest methods of communicating across great distances used written correspondence delivered by hand from one person to another. So to understand it easily, the form of communication here is only written and delivered by a person. No any other automatic or advance transportation. It is called as the Primitive Delivery System. As social media undergoes progress, we can observe that there are also newly created social media platform, with different mechanics, terms of used, so on and so forth. People are fascinated with what they have witnessed which can sometimes poisoned their minds and neglect of those things that are necessary to comply. Here comes the Neglecting Family and Responsibilities as one of major concern upon the advent of Social media. I don’t think it’s a new issue as of today, but what I’m pretty sure is. . .it is getting worst. Especially in the case of children, instead of playing outside, meet new friend and explore the real world...they dwell on the fact that social media is there and they don’t need to go outside and gain some sweat. Youngsters addicted to social media end up spending hours, each day, watching videos, photos, and other content posted in the accounts they follow. This addiction disrupts other activities, such as school work, sports, study, and other productive routines. See how unproductive is their life at the very young age. Unlike people before, they’ve spent much of their time socializing with their peers. While teenagers and adults put into trouble whenever they forgot some of their responsibilities at work, school and most especially at home. Not just the children, teenagers or adults but all individuals who became so addicted with this thing. They lost their communication and bonding with their families. Have some time to sit, chill and talk for a while about anything. Important schedules or projects are jeopardized because of bad habit. Actually, there’s nothing wrong with the advent of social media. In fact, it brought us near our loved ones despite being away from them for miles and years. There are a lot of benefits from it, which we needed to utilize and take good care of. I think it becomes a problem because people use it harmfully. Remember, learn to manage our time and put restrictions for ourselves. Our family, responsibility within our family and outside of it is crucial. We should take it seriously. Social media is just around, but when we lost our loved ones, we couldn’t bring them back anymore. And opportunities, it will time again depending on the situation. We always have a choice because the power is within our hands, so use wisely.