I am going to put down a few words about the value of our time. In particular spare time, which is spent on social media, what is it worth for the society and for ourselves?
As for myself, I often wonder if the time spent through my life on social media was worth the "cost". And today, as for most of the cases I feel "It was not worth it, and I don't want to spend my time with it unless I feel it will be worthwhile", which feels not only regretful, but also troublesome. When I say "cost" I refer to not showing interest, and as a consequence neither joining nor supporting "real life activities". With "real life activities" I mean the organized activities that are formed within modern societies through tradition. Sports clubs, culture clubs and religious associations are supported in various extents by education, mass media and values of from our older generations.
Even from the perspective of my generation, these activities still carry a whole lot of value. They are regarded as to bring plenty of nice side effects to the society (morale, values etc) and for ourselves (networking, skill development, physical health etc). In this way, it feels pretty reassuring and worth supporting by maintaining traditions, putting one's spare time in supporting the organization of everything. Personally, I put special value in the clearity of social orders. Not that I like the order in itself (it's too unfair), but rather that the orderliness of forming social groups and adapting, is worth defending.
What really troubles me is that I can't argue with others to put less time into social media and join real life activities. For everyday, we discover new activities related to social media that challenge the old, in terms of good effects for both societies and ourselves. So, the value of activities are not absolute in today's society and I don't know how to defend it. Neither can I embrace it, not before I know I'm supporting an activity that others will also support. How could I tell? How do our values relate to each other? Yet there aren't so many clues.
It seems the only way to deal with it is to spend more time with social media. That will probably bring a high "cost" for the society. And this "cost" I have mentioned so far didn't even take into account the case that people in this society/generation are expected to use their time to study and get/create jobs and pay tax.
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I strongly agree with the opinion. We spent lots of time on social media but get little. It is kind of time killing. When I was young, I didn’t have a computer, I always found so many activities to join in and made lots of friends. During that time, I had both a good time and a good mood. Nowadays I prefer to stay in front of my laptop, watching TV plays, playing games, chatting with someone else and go through some forums. If I have no lecture for one day, I may talk to nobody but myself in the whole day. It is kind of negative, because I do nothing to my IQ or EQ. After spend a day like this, I would feel do guilty and would have a bad mood. It dose harm both to my physical health and mental health. I am trying to end this kind of life style, but there are always some new episodes and interesting programme come out day by day. Because of the inertia, I always find excuses for myself to stay in front of my laptop. That is also for the reason that I have to do my assignment with the computer or I should read the articles online and so on...
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