MY LIFE

It was an early morning in 2018. I was in the 8th grade then. My classmates told me stories about how they met new friends and how they even chatted with celebrities and got to experience many amazing things. I was intrigued. I wanted to experience these exciting things they always talked about. Every child wants to partake in the childhood fantasy. So, I went on to create a Facebook account; this was the beginning of my journey through the virtual world. As time went by, I became accustomed to checking my social media more frequently. I immersed myself in the social media culture by chatting with friends via Messenger and WhatsApp. I started to share more content with my friends via my newsfeed to let them know that I was also virtually informed. Within no time, I was already a member of eight different social networking sites. This new online world now played an integral role in my life. For example, social media sites were now my teachers; they taught me news from around the world. It was also like attending school every day because I could look up information online. A virtual library, it was. Instead of blogging in my diary, I took to social media and posted about my life and daily routines. Social media was now a source of happiness and more so, it brought along a sense of motivation, pain, and frustration.            

My newfound interest started to interfere with my education. Instead of checking my school notes, I would rather check social media to see what was happening with the lives of people around me; the food, clothes, events, or activities they were involved in. I started doing things for content I guess that wasn’t life for me always checking in social media instead focusing on schoolwork.

I did all this because I felt lonely, I saw myself focusing on social media too much than myself and school, but I started to notice things that were lacking since I was busy on social media. Leaving social media life, I wasn’t easy, but I decided to gain confidence on making new friends who are schooling at my school and joining soccer team even attending classes(focusing).

Sometimes it’s hard to make friends I don’t blame people who are always on social media learning going lives and making new friends it’s easier to make friends on social media. But since I gained confidence in making friends it’s easier for me and since I ‘ve arrived here as a first-year university student I have made quite lot friends.