What does social media mean to you?

Nowadays, there are variety social network integrate to our life. According to my personal experience on pinterest, I have a public account to share interests with friends and it helps me to connect the wide world or catch-up the latest information. I like to “pin” image such as quotes, arts and movie clips, but I seldom post a status to express my feeling. Those “pin” still can represent my character even though I don’t used to post any status on the site. 

However, some of my friends would like to perform as private space on the social network. They used to make a privacy setting to avoid information leak out to the public. Therefore, their backstage behaviors will form it during in these days.

 Although, social network help people find friends whom they have lost contact and connect with them online again, it is an undeniable fact that social media such as smartphone created a digital generation gap between youth and elderly as well. According to the survey by Bob O'Donnell at TECHnalysis rsearch in 2014, most elderly were struggle with the high-tech integrate to their life, thus, social media may help new generation group connect with each other, it may affect to detach from youth to elderly as well. 

Above all, the high-technology changes from the ancient times to present and the phubbing becomes common phenomenon in nowadays, it cause eliminate face-to-face socialization. I would choose to stay in the real life rather than being phubbing in virtual world. (250 words)

Name Student: Chan Chau Ling