With the use of social media, I have never known of how seriously people took into account of how many “likes, shares, retweets, etc” they got. I also thought of social media of a place to connect and to interact with people who lie outside of one’s inner circle. The documentary on how social media and its importance shows a clear depiction on how today’s generation interact and gain easy access to anything one wants.

With social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc., anyone can sign up and gain easy access to connecting with his/her friends, interest groups, and so on. As seen in the video, today’s social media network not only allows users to converse but also allows users to follow, like, share, and repost/retweet anything or anyone of whom the user shows interest in. By showing an act of interest in such way, the social media network and other affiliated networks/sponsors/etc. will gain access to the user’s interests and likes, and thus will attain a data of related items that will overall represent the self of the user. By tracking how many clicks on ‘like’, ‘share’, ‘repost/retweet’ buttons, the social media network and its affiliates will gain a general idea of what users are attracted to and will thus exploit these users to relevant companies.

Today’s generation is exposing themselves to the media at very early ages. Without parental consents, today’s generation can unthinkably expose themselves out into the world of social media, which can cause many problems. However, on the flip side, I think today’s generation should be very fortunate for the easy access to connect and interact within such social media networks!