SNS For Show
SNS For Show
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  • 승인 2019.12.02 12:38
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 Communication in SNS is in fashion globally. Type of SNS is various such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. People can share their happy memories, then their acquaintance can click a ‘Like’ button and write a comment after watching their memories. SNS is good means to share memory for sure. However, more and more people are posting pictures and videos to draw people’s attention. They want to have lots of “Likes” and comments by copying the famous celebrities and uploading sensational pictures. It may seem like a personal problem but it can have an adverse effect on society.

 

 Last year, Ice Bucket Challenge has became a trend in Korea. Ice Bucket Challenge is relay donation campaign to help Lou Gehrig’s disease patients while drawing people’s attention about Lou Gehrig’s disease. It became a trend by participation of Korea’s famous celebrity, then many people uploaded videos to copy the celebrity in SNS. However, people only had interest in uploading videos in SNS unlike their core intentions. If someone point out another, they have to donate 100 dollars or get covered in ice water. But people only uploaded the video to get covered in ice water in SNS for people’s attention. And more and more people have concern not about disease, but about how to get covered in ice water to draw more attention.

 

 There is another challenge similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge. Its name is TrashTag Challenge. The TrashTag Challenge is a hashtag(#) challenge posting a picture that shows before and after cleaning the trash up. Similar to Ice Bucket Challenge, it acts as a challenge and posted on SNS. But unlike Ice Bucket Challenge, it has not spread widely in Korea. The reason why the TrashTag Challenge is unknown despite lots of trash on our streets is because it could not attract people's attention. Unlike Ice Bucket Challenge, celebrities did not participate in TrashTag Challenge and the photos of TrashTag Challenge weren't sensational enough to attract people's attention. As such, It may seem that people prefer photos and videos that can draw attention, and people do ‘SNS for show’ to draw a lot of attention.

 

 Recently, ‘SNS for show’ emerged as a social problem. In USA, there was a person who uploaded the murder broadcast for people’s attention. 17 April 2017, the person did a cruel murder in USA and uploaded a murder scene video in Facebook. Many people were shocked because the person proudly uploaded the video writing in Facebook that “I killed 12 more people in addition”. Like this, some people often show themselves off while doing illegal acts. But the most problem is that many people feel interested in the sensational videos like this murder video. Also, SNS has been a problem recently because of easy access of teenagers. As the problem became so serious, YouTube recently blocked a teenagers’ comment. YouTube’s handle about that matter has been a controversial issue opposing between argument that it obstructs communication and that SNS must protect teenagers.

 

 People who upload ‘SNS for show’ by threating their own life is currently increasing. Also, people who pose in extremely dangerous position such as standing on one foot at the cliff’s edge and hanging from a rock has been increasing. When they are asked, they all say that it was for SNS. What else, a couple from Portugal uploaded a picture posing outside of the train while the train was passing by the cliff. Like this couple, some people often their risk own life to upload dangerous pictures in SNS. In Rio de Janeiro of Brazil, a mountain has become famous for a photo zone. Waiting is essential for taking a picture in there because many people come to be known as the ‘picture at the cliff’s edge’. According to this, people pursue extremely dangerous pictures for ‘SNS for show’.

 

 SNS was created for building a network of relationships among people who share specific interests or activities. In other words, SNS is a space to share own memories with others and build a relationship. However, looking into the current SNS activities, I wonder if activities are suitable for their core intentions. In SNS, they are many videos which are sensational pictures or videos for displaying their own pride and to draw other’s attentions. These activities are not desirable because it’s different with the purpose of SNS. ‘SNS for show’ just make oneself miserable. What’s worse is that it makes other people unpleasant. So, people who do SNS have to be sure of the reason why they do SNS.

 


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