Cora Okeson

Dr. Queen

Comm 212

30 January, 2022

Video Reflection

In the ted talk of finding me in social media, I realized that many people are becoming

more inhumane than before, even for myself. Many people think that by getting social media you

are becoming more involved in the world. I mean you are being more involved electronically, but

you are taking yourself out of the real face to face communication world. This is where

impersonal communication comes into play because you are not interacting face to face with

another human but with yourself and a screen. Social media and the brilliance of technology has

taken over everyones lives each day and the need for being liked has grown more and more each

day. In the video Jana Webb says that every time you use social media the hormone dopamine

gets released, which is why a person may feel the need to repeatedly go back on social media and

post more content. She also says that posting on social media has the same effect as getting

excited, being liked, or having an organism. Your body likes the feeling of all of those things and

it is almost like going on a high when you are in use of social media because it takes your mind

to another place. Another thing that social media does to someone, is that it makes you depressed

because you see the good stuff and the highlights of other people's lives that you start comparing

your life to others. This can also be called relational dimension which is what you express

towards another person. You should never have to feel confused or less than someone because

another person has something that you don’t. Your life is authentic in your own ways, and being

human is something you need to do because you are human. Just being you should be good
enough for you. Comparing yourself to others is something that I do each day because I don’t

look a certain way, or this person has this and that but I don’t. I have lost a lot of my self

confidence and I shouldn’t be 20 years old feeling like I am not good enough. Getting up

everyday is good enough and doing the things that you love is good enough. Social media is an

addiction and I have become so used to comparing myself to others that I sometimes forget how

to be a human being. Looking up instead of always looking down might just change your and my

lives for the better. Finding the human connection again and getting serotonin by creating new

friendships and relationships will only benefit humans for the better. The transaction

communication model will be affected if I wont be in the present moment because it will

uniquely affect my human development. I think by not worrying about the past or the future and

just existing, it will help me find the person who I am supposed to be. In this video I realized I

need to be more in the moment and I wish that we could go back to a time where the phone was

just a thing up on the wall and a camera was something you had to carry in a bag. I know that

being a college student in the always changing world it will be difficult to put my phone down

but I know if I do I will feel more like a human again.