Nowadays social media is popular in our lives. It has become an important part of daily lives. It not only changed the way that people search for information, share it with each other, contact each other, and cooperate but also affected people's behavior. Social media changed people's habits, consumption patterns, hobbies and so on. It even affected all the aspects of society.
When I was a kid, my parents always contacted each other by mobile phones. We watched TV and read newspaper. We receive all the information from them. The mobile phone was only used to make a phone call and to send a text message. At the beginning, when I went to the junior high school, my parents bought a computer and a mobile phone for me. So, I created a QQ account. QQ is a service that is used to contract people. It was popular in our society. A lot of people, who had a computer, used QQ account and share their number with each other. So, they could be contracted by QQ. This service was very interesting because of its level system. If you are online more than two hours, you will get an accumulation. When you accumulated your hours to a certain extent, your level will be increased. It played the role of a psychological factor as people compare themselves to others and, therefore, went online every day. During the time when they were online on QQ, they chatted with friends. In addition, the company of QQ created a website named QQ Zone. It was a website that connected with your QQ account. People could put their photos and wrote down something in their QQ Zone. It provided a virtual place to share their life events and feelings. From 2004 to 2010, the QQ was the most popular social media. In 2007, my father bought me a Nokia mobile phone. At that time, it was a nice phone. I could download a lot of games and some music. I also downloaded the QQ service to my phone. Although it was only a prototype, it helped me to use QQ easier. I could use QQ on my phone to chat with my friends who had QQ on their computers.
With the development of science and technology, a lot of people use smartphones now. More and more services appear for the mobile wireless devices. People focus all their digital life on the smartphones or computers. Now we use Wechat instead of QQ in China. Wechat was created by the same company that created QQ. Wechat is more convenient service to use and to share life events with each other. We have Baidu as our search engine in China. We can watch sports games or TV series on our phones or computer. We can use our phones to book seats and order food, and even for writing a feedback about a restaurant or a hotel. Interestingly, we can’t use some international social media such as Google, Instagram, twitter, Facebook and so on in China. The Mobile Company and Government prevent people from getting some information from these services. In this way, they just want to show people that they wish to popularize Chinese technology.
Because of the development of wireless devices and the Internet, the frequency of people's communication was improved and made people closer. It changed our way of communication, shopping, working, and studying. The ways of getting information become diverse. The transmission of information occurs easier and faster now. But, on the other hand, there are also some negative things in this information age. According to the survey, people use the Internet more than six hours per day (Bennett). Some people always immerse in playing wireless equipment and ignore the real communication. Social media sometimes make people lonelier. A lot of people cannot stop playing mobile phone games during daily life even between classes, at the workplace or during meals.
The Internet has become more diverse today, people get addicted to the Internet more and more often. Graphic information is not enough for people anymore, and now the video has become a major leisure and entertainment activity. It is an important part of people’s live, and, of course, games play the same role. One of the biggest highlights of today's Internet is the rise of social media. People can share their findings obtained anywhere, at any time, whether it is text, pictures or videos. People can easily publish information with a help of mobile phone, the phones have become an indispensable tool in our daily life.
The Internet was developed many years ago and had so much influence on people's, so that is really kind of miracle. I’m looking forward to the future of the Internet and what kind of change it will show.
Works Cited
Bennett, Shea. "28% Of Time Spent Online Is Social Networking". SocialTimes. N.p., 2015. Web. 28 Apr. 2016.
