1. In his article, Note to Selfie, Dickerson argues that people are not missing out on meaningful events in their life when taking pictures or posting their moment on social media because pictures and videos are even more powerful than written words, in which they allow people to remember the details and meanings of their life. He also claims that when people pause to write about what is going on in their life on Facebook or Twitter, they are also engaging with it because they and inspired and they are picking words to convey their feeling. Dickerson also recall the moments when he was with his children, and he explains that he was able to look at the photos and access to the feelings that he used to have with his children. At last, Dickerson …show more content…
As a matter of fact, most of the people don’t have super memory and we forget many of the important events of our life. As technology advanced, people can easily keep or sharing their photos online privately or publicly, this also allows us to have better access to our memory. It is always good to review our old photos, to find out the changes we have made over time, and reflect on what we like and who we are. Looking back to our life, we notice that every little thing mean a lot more to us than we thought before. Use myself as an example, 99 weeks ago I took a picture of a pencil drawing at the place where I worked (a community center for seniors) and post it on Intagram, I wrote “I see myself 50 years from now.” I wrote that because I was thinking, when I retire I will do something I like, drawing for example. After entering college, I have not draw for a long time and almost forget that I love to draw. I am glad that my post reminds me of what I like, and what I want to do. Like Dickerson mention, “Don’t tweet or Intagram for fear that someone think you’re not living in the moment.” Use social media as a tool for you to think about your life and record the meaning at certain …show more content…
Social media makes us all Joan Didions because our old posts (written word or photos) allows us to look back to our life and understand what we were thinking and looking. It is very surprising that we can learn a lot about ourselves by looking at our social media page. When I look at my first ten posts from Intagram and Facebook from few years ago, I feel like I am looking at a person that I did not really know. Although it can be embarrassed when we see how different we are from now, we learned our growing process and the changes we made. Like Didions who writes to find out what she is thinking, what she is looking, and what she see meaning to her, everyone of us is posting our moments on social media so later we can use it for self
There you are holding your camera an arm’s length away from your face, posing in the most flattering position to capture your best angle. There you are taking a photo of yourself to share with all of your Facebook friends. Taking a self-portrait photo, also known as a selfie, is something almost everyone has done in this new generation. This action is typically done without a second thought. In Alex Williams’ article “Here I Am Taking My Own Picture” that second thought is provoked through exploring the quickly spreading trend of self-portrait photography. In the article while Williams’ provides interesting examples on a changing generation as this trend progresses through social media and modern technology; Williams also leaves something to be desired within the article due to a lack of direction in the author’s stance on the topic.
Photography allows us to maintain memories and relish them whenever we desire. Although some advocates might argue that people are no longer enjoying experiences instead taking more pictures, in the essay, “Why We Take Pictures”, by Susan Sontag, she conflates that photography can be used as a defense against anxiety and a tool of empowerment. I agree with Sontag on the significance of photographs and how it allows us to store a part of our extended relatives so we are able to hold on the memories of family. Therefore, we must appreciate how photography allows us to manage anxiety, express feelings and remember our loved ones.
This quote mentions that selfies are a good way to find oneself even though some people think that selfies give rise to vanity, exhibitionism, and narcissism. Moreover, it is a new relationship us between people; people using a creative expression to show not just simply an appearance, but how people feel in the moment. Selfies are an interesting expression in communication, like telling a visual story about us. From Tompson’s perspective, the selfie is “the perfect preoccupation for our Internet-saturated time, a ready-made platform to record and post our lives where others can see and experience them.” Because selfies give the photographer control over the creation and broadcasting of his own portrayal, they are really just the latest, and perhaps most democratic, form of advertising.
Currently, social media plays a significant role in our everyday lives and the way people in society interacts with one another. A few years ago, before its influence reached the point where it is now, the large platforms such as Facebook or Twitter which function was merely to keep family and friends connected no matter where they were or what they were doing, and the requirements were an internet connection and a smart phone or a computer. People would share pictures or posts to keep others “updated” on their lives and what they were thinking. Now social media platforms are far more complicated. In various of them, such as Instagram or Snapchat, it is not enough to only share a picture or video of your day, but it is almost a requirement and people are pushed to take an extra mile further away and make yourself appear interesting in the eyes of others. The “feed” requires to be eye catching, the captions should be memorable, the places one goes to ought to look way better than they actually are, you have to include friends in such posts to prove one have a social life outside of the phone. The importance of the number of followers, likes or viewers
Social media provided people with a mean that they can use to strengthen their connection with people they care about. It also facilitated connections to people that were not possible before. People now can connect with societies from all over the world and are able to be impacted by those connections. This made it easier for people who share similar ideas and problems to communicate with each other. As Davidson explains in her essay “Indisputably, the imagination is engaged in making connections in all of those forms, as it is in anything we experience. It is engaged in a different way when we ourselves are making the connections when we’re browsing from one to another link that interests us and draws our attention” (55). Social media made it easier for people to satisfy their need for communication with others. As social beings, humans like to connect with each other; it is how they develop empathy towards others. As Fredrickson explains in her essay “As you interact with one person after another, they gently nudge you to attend to these others more closely and forge connections when possible. They shape your motives and behaviors in subtle ways, yet ultimately, their actions serve to strengthen your relationships and knit you closer to the social fabric of life” (110). Now social media websites or applications serve as pathways
To start, social media consumes our lives. It lets us believe that our lives are based on the internet and apps on our phones. As
I believe that pictures are able to capture a single moment, highlighting the important meaning behind every action presented. According to Mitchell Stephens’ “By Means of the Visible: A Picture’s Worth,” images possess “great power - religious, tribal, romantic, pedagogic” (479). Similarly, in Kenneth Brower’s “Photography in the Age of Falsification,” a picture of earthrise is described as having “poetic power, evoking sentiment” (564). When looking at pictures, whether in my photo album or a Life magazine, I discover that emotions are stirred by those pictures that hold the greatest number of feelings, from anguish to happiness, thus making them the most memorable. Through my analysis of my most compelling photographs and the essays of Stephens and Brower, I have concluded that each picture evokes a feeling inside of me, whether it is a photograph of a kiss, a family in the mist of the Depression, or my grandfather.
I have it on my person at all times so that I can text, call, Snapchat, tweet and post on Facebook. I spend far too long deciding which picture of the day will be the most worthy to post on my Instagram page. I thrive on the amount of likes that I get and try to outdo that number every time. In Sinek's video he states “ It’s why we count the likes, it’s why we go back ten times to see it and if it’s going if our midst of my Instagram is going slower and I what I did, did I do something wrong, do they not like me anymore.” Sinek would consider me a classic millennial. For example, my friends came and visited me in Dallas, Texas over Christmas break. We spent the day taking pictures of ourselves all around Dallas doing adventurous things, so that we could pick out a good one to post on Instagram. That night at dinner instead of enjoying each others company while we ate, we sat on our phones trying to decide which picture of us looked the best. Once we posted our favorite picture we spent way too much time staring at our phones looking at who would get the most likes. Doing these things on my phone often replaces many opportunities for me to actually interact with my friends and takes away from enjoying my surroundings in the
The mass majority of the population has some type of connection with the world, whether it’s a social media connection or through texting. Everyone has a way to stay connected with friends and family. When posting or sharing things people are showing the fun activity they are participating in as well as having those pictures as a memory for later on in life. In a social media driven world, many don’t realize the benefits of documenting photos but instead believe that it takes away from embracing the moment, therefore taking photos helps individuals stay connected to others and hold on to the moments they enjoy most.
As (Stoller) says social media is the dominate set of interactional spheres where digital identities are made manifest. This means that social media is the main way that we show our identity digitally. Before social media, before there was internet, people use to know each other through direct contact. Now that there is Twitter, Facebook, and others, people are able to know one another through their interactions in social media. Social media is a relay of information of people that goes back and forth. (Cloiner) says “we immediately announce our story on social media: “hashtag gratitude,” “feeling sweetness,” “kickin’ it with kindness.” And then we wait—for the virtual world to respond, to determine what the experience will mean, what our life will mean, and ultimately, the most important thing of all: what the event says about who we are—our identity.” For example, some social media sites have the ability to upload a bio or short summary of who they are. That means the person is giving information about themselves online where its public for anyone to see. That is not only thing that tells who we are. People can know what type music someone likes, where they went on vacation, who they hang out with, what organizations they involve with, etc… Social media can be a way where people become friends, date, do some community projects, and many more examples. That’s is how social media is part of digital
For all we know, social media has changed our lives forever. It gives us some opportunities that we did not have before. My social media use is very similar to that of Eva and Sara. We all use social media more as an observer to keep in the loop of friends and family. We are able to stay up updated to the second on everything that is happening in the world simply because of social media. Now we can only imagine what the future hold and how we will communicate
With the way the world is now it should not be a surprise to anyone that social media has literally taken over the world in this day and age. From late 2008 to early 2009 the size of Facebook users doubled from 100 million to 200 million in eight months, and was already up to 400 million by early 2010. Twitter also raised its number of users in 2009 from 4.5 million to 20 million (Zandt). These numbers just show what Facebook and Twitter have accomplished. Other social media sites that are getting more and more popular are Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Pinterest, and many others social media websites that people use on a daily basis. With one in four people using social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, it is no wonder that all of these social media websites are considered to be important (Whiteman). With a few clicks of a button or taps on a screen, a person can be connected to family and friends in every corner of the world. Social media can even allow people to see what their favorite celebrities are doing with their lives. According to Honor Whiteman,”Social media defines an array of internet sites that enable people from all over the world to interact. This can be through discussion, photos, video and audio (Whiteman).” Social media is a beast in its own right that is used by a multitude of people all over the world everyday for things such as updating their Twitter status for personal use to updating a company 's Facebook page on a weekly basis. Yes, there is no doubt about it, social media has done its share of very good things, but there is also an entire list of the negative things about using these websites that can really make a person question if they should even be on them. Af...
Liberty is something that belongs to everyone and it is the government's job to protect it but not abuse their power, through free and fair elections also fair and speedy court trials. According to Merriam-Webster Liberty is the power to chose what you want. So in a sense liberty is the essence of freedom. Part of liberty is not being harmed by anyone else, for that reason government must have an even balance of liberty and protection of its people. This will prevent unlawful doings such as stealing.
Photography has created an outlet for the masses to story tell. It has a way of speaking without words like most art forms and is a manner of expression in itself. To eradicate photography from humans would be equivalent to taking away a limb from humankind. Our society has grown an immense amount of dependency on it. Photography has become almost a daily menial task such as brushing your teeth; where we must take pictures of the things we deem important or equally unimportant, even more so with the invention of social media outlets such as Instagram and Snapchat, where photography is the main source of communication between people who use them. Susan Sontag offers the basis of what taking pictures can undertake in both our daily lives and moments that are not part of our daily lives, such as travel. Traveling to places where one is not accustomed can flare pent up anxiety. A way to subdue that anxiety could be through taking pictures, since it’s the only factor that we have total control over in a space where we don’t have much, or, any control of our surrounding environment. On the other hand, taking photos can also be a tool of power in the same sense as it allows for it to be a defense against anxiety. With the camera in our hands, we have the power to decide who, what, where, when, and why we take a picture. This in turn also gives the person who took the picture power over those who later analyze the photos, letting them decide the meaning of the photo individually, despite the intended or true meaning.
Social media can be used in our days as a very helpful tool for many things in changing any person’s life ant attitude. It has a positive impact on the society level. These media will keep the person socially active and open to all what happened in the world. Sharing the latest news, photos, finding new friends and knowing the culture. Also, it allows for millions to keep in touch with each other and update for all the new technology. And, it helps people who have difficulties in communication with others to be more socialized and stronger and develop more confidence to feel more comfortable, protected and relaxed just sitting behind a screen. “It saved me time and money without ever requiring me to leave the house; it salvaged my social life, allowed me to conduct interviews as a reporter and kept a lifeline open to my far-flung extended family” says Leonard(231).