One of the impacts of rapid technological advances today is the emergence of social media which is getting more and more crowded. What is social media? Social media is a web platform or application via online media that humans can use to communicate with each other even though they are in different places. Before we discuss further, it is better if we discuss the history of the development of communication between humans from ancient times (although not really).
Early humans communicated using puffs, deheman, shrill, and also through sound signals of several tools. Apart from that through the pictures that are usually found on cave walls. Then it continued to be symbols when humans began to recognize paper. Over time these symbols become letters which make communication easier.
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have debated the use of language itself and the history of the formation of these different languages. But what is certain, since the discovery of paper, human communication patterns have developed quite rapidly.
The development of communication continues on paper-based, namely by letter and telegram. Then when the telephone was discovered, humans began to communicate using the telephone, which then continued on to cell phones where there was an electronic mail feature called SMS. Then with the advent of the internet, email (electronic mail over the internet) came into use. And development continues until the era of BBM aka Black Berry Messenger.
After the advent of smartphones, human communication behavior has also changed, due to the emergence of many social media applications such as Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Musically, Tiktok, Likee APK Download, etc. Thanks to the many various social media applications, human behavior has changed, because in the past, communication was only using writing and maybe only voice, nowadays humans can even communicate by looking at each other’s faces even though they don’t meet in person.
But, do you realize that the development of social media is directly proportional to humans who are increasingly materialistic?
What is materialistic? Materialistic, based on a large Indonesian dictionary, means “materialistic”, which means an object or something that can be seen. So for example, people are said to be materialistic because they are considered too chasing money. Why? Because money is a thing, it is visible. Meanwhile, intelligence or creativity is not a thing. That’s why intelligent people and creative people are not said to be materialistic. They are smart, yes creative, not material (crude language).
Returning to the discussion about social media, it turns out that over time social media has become a representation of increasingly materialistic human thoughts. Since the emergence of Facebook and the easy access to the internet, social media has become a human need. Maybe the flow is like this, I judge it based on the time it was popularly used. Facebook-Twitter-Instagram-Snapchat-Musically-Tiktok-Likee.
Departing from Facebook and Twitter, although in the Facebook and Twitter applications you can send pictures, the main point in both applications is writing, aka narrative. And writing or narrative usually has to emerge from a thought that requires intelligence and creativity in composing words.
Then came Instagram, a social media application that has the main point, namely images. Whatever posts we write in the Instagram caption, it’s not important, because the most important in that application is our picture. And I think this is where there is a reduction in human intelligence and creativity in making narratives, because writing is no longer the important thing, the most important thing is the picture or the photo. From here, human materialism is growing rapidly.
What is narration? Narrative is simply the development of a writing or writing ability. Why is narration important? because with our narrative we are actually training our creativity to explain or describe what is in our minds into writing, and of course in that writing we will learn to make good writing right? Systematic explanation in the form of arguments to support the main points that we convey. On Facebook and Twitter, we are still focused on this,
but….
Since the emergence of Instagram, people have begun to be unaccustomed to writing and reading in full, preferring to see images, which are visible, even reading is sometimes just titles, so hoaxes have grown very rapidly because of this. And humans are increasingly materialistic because they are always focused on what they see. Objects, food, make-up, appearance, cars, houses and everything that can be seen are the focus of humans. When humans see something that they think is good, they will have a tendency to get the same thing. It is not important to write or caption on Instagram, because what you see most is the photo / image.
Therefore, since the emergence of Instagram, many people have started to appear “different” when in front of the camera. They try to do a perfect shot so people like their photo. Even being willing to do “evil” editing is almost inclined to be called manipulation. Everything is just “to be seen” and other people like it. People who are initially realistic, what they are, according to what they have, can turn into materialistic because of the continuous flooding information they receive about how good, luxurious, handsome, beautiful, expensive, etc.
The longer the narrative ability in writing is lost, it becomes instantaneous and materialistic. And this is enhanced by the last 3 applications, namely Musically-Tiktok-Likee which is video based. In your own opinion, when you open these 3 applications, what do you hope you will get? Do you expect to read sharp writings like Najwa Shihab’s writing, poetic writings like Sujiwo Tejo’s, evocative writings like Bung Karno’s speeches, is that what you expect? OF COURSE NO, right?
When you open the 3 applications, what you expect is to see funny videos, cool videos, videos of people showing off, videos of people dancing. That’s right? And in it, is the narrative of writing important? Not at all, even worse than Instagram. If Instagram’s main point is an image, then the writing there is like a description of the image. Whereas in the last 3 applications there is not even a text, it doesn’t matter, because people will focus on what you are doing in the video. This means that people see you, people see your clothes, your house, your vehicle, your food, and they don’t see your intelligence.
So in conclusion, whether materialistic thoughts develop first and then social media applications are created or social media applications are made first and then materialistic understanding follows, what is clear is that currently humans are in a thought that focuses on visible objects. So when there is a question, what is success? Most of the answers are https://www.diandro.id/2020/08/likee-apk-download.html about the amount of money, the shape of the house, the vehicle, and appearance. Not about intelligence, harmonious household, pious children and families, and good personal character.
* btw for those who ask what is the connection between the “pearls” opening this paper and its contents? Hmm… Maybe he lacks intelligence or maybe he just doesn’t have to be cuffed anymore, but he says beauty, and beauty is a materialistic sentence.
Sarangae 