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Apr 10

Are You Addicted to Social Media?

Are you addicted to social media?

The social media (social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, and microblogging sites like Twitter and Plurk) is one of humankind’s best inventions. The social media boomed like a huge nuclear bomb that infected a very wide range of area – almost all over the world.

Social media like Facebook and Twitter is really addicting. In Facebook, you don’t have to go out from your house to mingle with your friends, because Facebook has a chat feature where you can chat with all your friends. In Twitter, you don’t have to be a famous celebrity just to have lots of followers, because in Twitter, if you follow many people, then you’ll definitely have lots of followers too. Social media like Facebook and Twitter really captured our lives. But, should we be worried about this?

In some studies, social medias can affect our lives, positively and negatively. It can improve our lives. With social media, we can connect to our friends and relatives who are miles and miles away from us in an instant. We can also find new friends to be with social media. And of course, social media entertains us. It is fun indeed. But if we’re too much depending to social media, negative effects of it can make our lives miserable.

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