(B4) Media

In this modern era, most of the social media user is active user, someone who do “thinking” after received informative, active in mind and believe that it’s his or her choice whether to take the information or not. For some people, social network like Facebook has become part of their life but for me, I’m kind of tired of it because most of the information posted nowadays is so information-less. People posts about their meals, selfies with irrelevant caption, pets and tons of stuff that is meaningless (at least for me it is meaningless). That’s actually one of the reason I’ve reduced using social networking site like Facebook nowadays. In these days, what happening is people start taken break on social sites like Facebook and twitter because people are getting tired of overshares, being contacted by people they don’t want to talk to and keep being hit by other people’s thoughts.

Will media contents affect the audiences? Yes, of course. For example, the way we perceive beauty. We perceive slim and tall as the standard of beauty as the media always portrays slim and tall model in fashion shows, slim and tall girls as the lead role in drama. Another example is the hottest trend now in Asia, which is the kpop, a.k.a Korean pop. People try to dress like a Korean, learn their language, and even Korean cuisine. Besides, media also affect the people preference of entertainment. Actually, media contents has shape almost every aspect of our life and in some way it help in increasing our life’s quality.

Sources:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233191

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/most-facebookers-have-taken-a-break-from-the-site-study-finds/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/the-filtered-feed-problem/