After doing research about my blog question if social media makes college students social or unsocial, I discovered a very interesting point. Social media inhibits our ability to be present in a given environment. One main observation is that when we become intertwined with technology or things like social media, we become hypnotized and become caught up in another world. When college students are too focused on their phone, rather than the world around them they miss out on opportunities, connections and experiences that they otherwise could've used to their advantage. For example social media serves as a distraction when a group of friends come together, because rather than conversing with the people around them, they focus on checking twitter updates, checking Facebook, and posting that new picture on Instagram. In essence we are living life through a social media portal, rather than in the actual world itself. Although we may believe we are being social by communicating with others via social media, we are actually inverting ourselves into a digital life and hiding behind a keyboard.
This addiction for many is inhibiting the ability for college students to live life to the fullest. Rather than live through phone calls and 360 character texts, our generation needs to put the phone down and communicate with peers in person. We need to realize that social media in fact does the opposite of what we desire it to, be social.