Facebook helps us connect and share with many people in our lives, but are we too dependent on it?
Ms. NTPT, a person working at a university in Ho Chi Minh City, recounted the first story that she and her mother exchanged early this morning, March 6, when they just woke up: "Meta crashed", "Facebook, Instagram cannot be accessed".
PT's daughter, a 10th grader, said her group of friends "went crazy, switching from Instagram and Facebook to Zalo, then inviting each other to discuss everything via email...". But this incident was also a coincidence as the female student's group was performing the play "When the internet dies". The incident that prevented users from accessing Facebook last night also helped the female students gain more insight. She also discussed with her mother the consequences, especially the fate of content creators, what they would do, how traumatized they would be, when the prospect of "the internet no longer exists" occurred.
We cannot deny the values that social networks are bringing.
Mr. Le Hoang Phong, founder and Academic Director of Your-E Education and Training Organization, commented that Facebook in particular and social networks are very popular today. Many people know how to take advantage of social networks to get closer to their goals, join groups to learn and develop themselves.
Or since the advent of social networks, the concept of friendship has also changed. Friendship between students is not only in the same class, same school, but can go beyond borders. The definition of "online friendship" was born. It is just getting to know each other from online groups, you see the same interests, habits, goals... and press the "add friend" button.
But what about the problems of social media?
Many people spend too much time on social networks for entertainment. The problem that Le Hoang Phong realized was that communication between students gradually shifted from direct to online.
That is, you connect through "Reels", "Stories" on Facebook, using short videos to express your thoughts. Gradually, many students feel like "communicating in virtual space more than communicating in real space". Because you see no need to face each other, isolated by real space. But gradually, the more you abuse this way of communication, the more young people lack the skills to handle real-life situations, life skills are increasingly fading away...
Many people may suffer from FOMO, the fear of missing out on something exciting that others are experiencing.
Mr. Le Hoang Phong mentioned the psychological syndrome FOMO that many young people in big cities, places with strong wifi coverage, are likely to encounter. This syndrome can be understood as young people experiencing the fear that they will miss out on interesting and attractive things that others have experienced.
Anxiety makes you always want to update the activities of your friends and others, so as not to miss out on what they are doing... And social network algorithms are becoming more and more sophisticated, the Facebook screen will be filled with the issues that you are interested in and often view the most, making it impossible for users to stop.
'If one day there was no social media, how would we live?'
Ms. Nguyen Thi Song Tra, Director of TH Education and Training Company Limited (HCMC), said that not only students, but also us, working people, teachers, sales people... all work a lot on social networking platforms. At the same time, with family members, we often connect with each other through social networks. The problem is that we need to control when to work on social networks, and how to use these platforms.
"Incidents like the Meta incident last night (March 5) that made Facebook inaccessible pose a question for us: have social media users ever wondered: If there were no social media, how would we live? Without Facebook, we have many other channels to connect with each other. But if one day, all social media platforms collapse, how will our learning and working be optimized?", Ms. Nguyen Thi Song Tra raised the question.
The Internet or social media cannot replace real-life connections.
Ms. Song Tra brought up a story that she has been thinking about for a long time. That is, many people have the habit of going on Facebook to congratulate and express their love for someone, but in real life, they do not talk to each other, do not show any caring actions towards each other. Is that okay?
"I think that students - who use Facebook a lot nowadays - need to be guided to know how to use social networks most appropriately. And especially, social networks do not allow users under 13 years old, but many students still secretly use them. We need to raise the issue of parental control. Intentionally or unintentionally allowing students under 13 years old to use Facebook and other social networks will have many consequences that we cannot control," Ms. Tra shared.
In reality, life goes on, everything goes on smoothly, whether Meta fixes the Facebook problem or not. As Ms. NTPT - an educator and a mother of a 16-year-old child - said, the generation of young people like her child is growing up, the world of students today is completely different from hers, and their dreams are also different.
The value of the internet cannot be denied, it has opened up new and different approaches. The perspectives of everyone and the younger generation are all different and great. The most important thing for both me and my daughter, as well as many people have realized, is that the internet or social networks cannot replace real-life connections, real conversations, goodbye hugs, waving goodbyes, conversations about any topic, when we are all together...
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