Social media is eating my life.

As a college student who was born in a technological age, I believe that 80% of other student spend most of their time on media. We check our smartphone consistently, browse our Facebook feeds, "like" our friends' status or pictures one by one and then half of the day has already passed. In this technology age, media has just been inevitably blended into our daily lives. I have never lived without media. When I was a child, watching television was my daily routine. After I grew up a bit, I became an online-game devotee. And now, I admit that I am totally addicted to social media. Nearly every waking hour of every single day, I use my phone or laptop to see what is going on in other people's lives and what events or incidents just happen in the world. 

Last Saturday was just another typical laid-back Saturday for me: I woke up at 9 o'clock in the morning. And the first thing I did after I opened my eyes was to look for my phone. I checked the time and then I just started diving into the news feeds until my friend called me out for lunch. During the lunch, every one was also checking her/his phone all the time. Even though while I talked to my friend, she was looking at her app message instead of looking at me. Only till that moment did I realize that how we are heavily addicted into social media.

Social media has indeed brought me some convenience: I don't have to go outside and look for like-minded people by joining a club or social so hard in order to know more cool people. Instead, I can just sit down and search for groups that I'm interested in on Facebook on my laptop. And after several clicks and words, I just make a new friend. However, this kind of "convenience" makes the relationship between me and others much shallower than before. Sometimes people like me just spend(waste) too much time looking for some new easy relationship rather than sit down and have a nice catch-up talk with our old friends. So let's put away our phones for a while, think about what has social media brought to us and what has it taken away from us. And ask ourselves: do we really want this kind of shallow relationships?