TED DİYARBAKIR COLLEGE / 8-B
Social Media and Transformation
Erva KORKUTATA ‣
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Imagine that from the moment you are born, you are surrounded by phones filming you. After a few months, you find yourself in front of a television watching Cocomelon. Then you get your own tablet and phone. As you grow up, you start seeing people post online and you want to be like them. You see people using skincare products or doing makeup, so you ask your parents to buy those for you as well. You learn new vulgar words and use them against people without even knowing their meaning. You dress like an adult, do makeup like an adult, download the apps adults use, and learn the way adults speak, trying to act like them. You lie about your age online and make fun of people for their age, hiding and transforming yourself until people no longer know the real you under all that makeup. Is it really worth it? including me, so I’ m sure others can relate to what I am saying. Seeing people with“ perfect bodies” and“ perfect faces” online and feeling insecure when our own faces or bodies are not even fully developed yet is ridiculous, and it is fake. Most of it consists of filters. Yet, I can relate. Every teenager goes through things like this, after all.
What about the people on social media, especially those involved in online marketing? You cannot always trust what an influencer says about a product; it might simply be marketing because a company pays them. So, can you even trust anyone at all? What if you become too attached to someone you have never even seen in real life? Or what if they simply“ ghost” you and never come back? After all, it is not that hard to press the block button.
I was exposed to such things when I was young( at least older than the new generation, but still young), so I can relate. Social media has been difficult for many people,
Another issue is trends. You see something that is currently popular on social media and want to buy it because it“ looks good” and you want to show it off. Then everyone