How media is influencing on humanity - By Camilo Lopera Aristizábal

I am going to talk about how media is influencing in our lives, all those points which I am going to say are from my point of view, just what I think about the media and how it is modifying everything surrounding us, however the media has changed some aspects of us and has helped us with many things such as a very fast way to communicate news or make easier many things in our daily lives. I am going to do an emphasis on “Social Media”, therefore it brings the smartphones; this is a controversial topic because for some people this could be bad and for other could be nice, even is known in the society that person who has not any social media is refusing the success to join to any social group, the huge societies become in a small village because everyone is available to communicate or to post something that can reach plenty of people.

The arguments for it from my point of view are: the fastest way to communicate between us, a developed society which is trying to innovate everything, easy way to have whatever kind of information, the knowledge which is online could be useful for people that want to learn something, getting the latest news which are happening over the world and one of the most important thing is that you can make money in the cheapest way; for example with the social media we can reach a very big population to develop any business with a very low cost, making that the people realize that they can buy the products or services which you are selling, there have been plenty of people that have  taken the advantage of the “Social Media” and have earned lots of money through of this way.

The arguments against are: People have made it the 21^st century addiction, because most of people usually spend  a great deal of time reviewing their smartphones, so it seems that it has become in a new addiction without them realize that they are already addicts to their smartphones, the “Social Media” has made people lose time to share with their families because they  are available to take their smartphones whatever time they want instead of it, they should enjoy their time doing useful things with their families.

In conclusion since the humanity has been trying to make our lives easier, but not one has known how to organize their time to make useful all those tools that have been appearing through the society developing. If we knew how to take the advantage that it is giving us, we would not use those tools in the way that we are using it, and finally something that tell us if we are addicted to our smartphones are: If we review our smartphones more that forty times per day, we are addicts, If we spend on our smartphones around of four hours per day, we are addicts or if somebody tell us to pay attention in a meeting, we are addicts.