How are you using social media? Social media can be used to find information, watch videos, and participate in social networking. The impact of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for me is only for entertainment purposes. While, watching videos I do sometimes think to myself I am wasting my time and could be doing something productive.
Even though I haven’t learn how to use social media in a way it could benefit me it doesn’t mean it hasn’t benefit other people like my parents. A year before I was born my parents came into the United States as illegal Immigrants. So, my mom was not able to see her parents for around 14 years. As technology kept growing and applications were developing people were being able to connect to each other more easily.
When my brother learned about face-timing apps and how you could see a person face-to-face from every part of the world. He decide to download an app called WhatsApp, which help people FaceTime in Android phones. By teaching my grandma and my family in Mexico how to use the app my mom was able to see her mom for the first time. It was so overwhelming to watch them FaceTime because you could’ve seen tears coming down their eyes.
Now days my mom FaceTimes to Mexico almost every day and is able to be inform of everything that is happening over there. Being able to FaceTime each other is such an important impact for people around the world, Apple, in 2018 decided to update their software to allow up to 32 people to FaceTime each other. I feel social media has it’s negatives, but if you are able to find the positives it would definitely benefit you.
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