What's the Buzz

Technology today plays a special role of shaping world events. News travel so fast, communication is better, and each one of us is connected in any way possible. We have everything that we could use to talk to people from the other side of the earth. Distance today is not more of a problem. With technology, it seems like everything or everyone is in the palm of our hands. However, along with this advantage comes disadvantage that technology can bring. Technology with media can bring a lot of problems for the world. For example, when media is used to persuade and misinform people, it can bring a lot of conflicts and start violence. Some of us are not cautious enough to use technology and media. We underestimate their power or we take advantage of what has technology has given us. Media can shape who we are. Media can make us think about ideas that we don't usually think about. Media can give us good news and also can misinform us. With the technology today, we have the two-sided-face media. One face informs us about good information, the other face, gives us wrong ideas about things. Especially with the popular social media today, we are given a faster channel to express our feelings and idea about certain things. One day, you are just a normal person living your normal life then the next day, you are everyone's enemy because of the single comment or a picture that you posted. People from all around the world would know what you're doing with just a single status post. It sounds so ridiculous but that's what's everybody has been doing right now. We are bound by this square object that we face all day. We are trapped in a miserable world of technology in which we only based our ideas on what other people will say. This media prevents us from thinking outside of the box.