Reflection Paper On Social Media

Social media is surrounding us in our daily life, it have a great power to influence every user in the social media. Not only the information we receive, but also the way we receive information. All hot issue in town comes out in the social media, we no longer need to find them out and can just wait till them appear on social media. Therefore, our life become depended to the social media as it is so important to every user. In the following paper, I would like to describe and have reflection on the way of my usage of creative and social media using the cases in Instagram as example.

The user’s self image is very important in social media as well as in Instagram. As this does not only influences the image of you in social media and also how

On social media we do not only post words, we like to post different picture on it to share with all our friends. I would never post a picture on Facebook, Instagram or the icon of WhatsApp which is not yet being fine tuning using any photo editing applications. I am not saying that I would photoshop every picture to make my eyes looks bigger or make my face looks smaller. But what I will do is to add filter or effect on it, adjusting the light and darkness. (Refer to figure 1 & 2 in appendix) As the light of the picture has being adjust and the man wearing pink shirt were being cropped when the picture is being posted on Instagram. Although sometime the picture looks good enough, I cannot control myself not to edit the picture. The social media expect user would like to present the nonymity, however, my action shows that I am presenting the anonymity. Editing the picture I post is one of the strategic or method I used to help presenting a better self image. Because, I believe that other user will

I found that there are two extreme type of user. Which showing that they are using two totally different method to run their Instagram account. First type of user is an example from my secondary classmates AKK. (Refer to figure 3 & 4 in appendix) AKK pay lots of attention on how to gain more followers. She would like to use picture that are well design in both post, background and even everything that exist in the picture to create an image of goddess with a sexy body. She gain many followers and rather have more likes in their picture. Moreover, she wants to create a image of fashion and beauty in Instagram. Beside, she see the more number of likes as a kind of enjoyment and reward. Therefore, she allows lots of shops and strangers to follow their account. She did not care about their life is being exposes to many strangers. The key thing she care about is the numbers of likes they get in each of their pictures. These action also affect their interpersonal relationship. AKK tend to meet friends who also show the image of goddess. They can study how to take better picture using different technic together. However, there are another type of user I discovered in Instagram. This example is from my basketball teammate CTK. (Refer to figure 5 & 6 in appendix) For the example of CTK, she is totally different from the type that mentioned above. They do not really care how many followers they got, they just care