The Impact of Social Media and Narcissistic

Nowadays, our teenagers already smart with the approachment of social media and narcissistic. This technology bring a big changing to our teenagers, for example, their behaviour, habitually, and even their future. The narcissistic in the social media also make our teenagers nowadays become have more confidence. But, not all confidence bring a good effect for teenagers. This technology could bring bad impact for our teenagers, although they may can learn the modern technology but they may also cannot avoid the bad impact.

The Impact for Their Daily Life

Before the technology of social media and narcissistic approach, teenagers in the past have a high politeness to the older people. Their parents taught them to be polite to everyone, even with the other teenagers or friends. The teenagers in the past also do not refute what their parent said to them.

Nowadays, the teenagers have less of care to what their parent said and more care to their social media like facebook, twitter, and so on. After that's all, teenagers have brave to refute their parents just for concentrate on their social media. Narcissistic also make them have more confidence to show off their photo, etc.

The Impact for Their Education Life

Teenagers in the past have more respect to their teacher and even shy to speak up in front of them. They have a high repect and always listen to what their teacher explain in front of the class. Teenagers in the past also will do their assignment on time and more diligent to study.

Teenagers nowadays, have braveness and high confidence to speak up in front of their teacher. The teenagers or students even brave to speak with the slang language to their teacher. This social media and narcissistic taught them the slang language through the chat or on the group in their social media.

The Impact for Their Future

Before the approachment of social media and narcissistic, teenagers will focus and more serious to thinking about their future. They will focus on how to reach their ambition. So, they will struggle and do their best to get their success.

After the approachment of social media and narcissistic teenagers nowadays will not focus and serious to thinking their future and their ambition. they will just focus on chatting or uploading or searching on their social media. It will bring a bad habit and make them lazy to struggle on reaching their success.

Our teenagers become think more modernly and changing after the approachment of social media and narcissistic. This changing make a big differences between teenagers in the past and teenagers in modern era. So, if social media and narcissistic become more sophisticated in the next era, our teenagers should be more careful to keep their behaviour and habitually.

Posted by Oky Gresyaningrum 

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The Threat of Selfie for Generation Today

Selfie is a word that is added in Oxford Dictionary on August 2013, and defined as 2013’s Word of The Year in Online Oxford Dictionary. Selfie is photographing yourself or self-potrait, especially using smartphone or webcam, then uploaded to Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Nowdays, selfie-trend become very popular. Why?. Selfie become very popular because with selfie, we can actively adjust the image that our show. Besides that, the development of advanced technology, almost all of smartphones have camera features, so people can do selfie easily. But selfie have many negative effects for us that can influence our life.

Increasing narcissisme in society

Usually, selfie is used as medium to show off that they are beautiful, sexy, handsome, attractive, fashionable and so on. Generally, selfie is done by them when they feel glamour and fashionable, or when they want to show what are they doing. Often upload selfie-photos, describe increasing narcissisme in society. It also led to the emergence of public perception, that the most important are appearance and physical beauty. People who narcissistic glad to boast about themself and hope others give praise. They want the people’s attention. By they do selfie, upload in the social media, and get the feedback such as “like” or comment, they will feel recognized, get social acceptance and appreciation in the environment. That’s a basic human need. If selfie is doing with over, selfie has considerable harm potential to them self-esteem. Without realizing it, they will depend on the appreciation of the outside, like by number of “likes” and comments of others. So, the purpose they are narciss, because they want get praise from others.

Increasing the manipulating or editing in selfie-photos

Nowdays, by the development of advance technology and many people in the world use smartphone, many selfie-photos that were uploaded in social media are photo editing. Photo editing is one of applications in smartphone that can manipulate and change the photo more beautiful. People who manipulating or editing their selfie-photo with Photo-editor application, their selfie-photo will be more beautiful or handsome than fact, because the purpose of editing is make perfect image. That case make they depend with editing application in every their image. And It cause they don’t appreciate the creation of God, they feel unsatisfied with the physic that they have. So, for them it is better to editing the first before they upload their selfie-photo in social media.

In conclusion, social media like Facebook and Instagram were created as medium to self-expression and communicate with others. Selfie is not prohibited,  but considering selfie can influence our life style become bad, so  people should use it wisely and not over. So that the generations are not become worst by the development of advance technology today Iike trend selfie.

Posted by Iswari Puji

Be Careful of BlackBerry Messenger!

            Social media haven’t foreign to our ears, the kind of variants forms of social media has to offer which certainly have benefits and influence each for humans. One of the examples of social media is BlackBerry Messenger. Of course we know this one of social media. BlackBerry messenger is a social media to communicate with other people by smartphone. Here, apparently the applications of BBM have negative effects ad negative influences for users.

            BBM has negative effects. For the first, BBM cause addiction. When someone or user use application of BBM, they will search to know about all of menu that there in BBM. And when they had known and understood. They will more interest to the application and instead will difficult to regardless from their smartphone because had addiction into use BBM and they had happy with their smartphone. The second, BBM can disturb for sleeping. When the user of BBM had addiction use BBM, certainly they are difficult to leave their smartphone even for a moment and even although it was time to sleep and take a rest. Quite often the user of BBM so sensitive when their smartphone ringing. So that easily awakened from their sleep to open incoming messengers because most people put their smartphone in bed. So that when their smartphone ringing, the user will awakened from their sleep and it has disturb for sleeping. The third BBM can finger crime. Application of social media used as a container for committing a crime, like deception and kidnapping. In Indonesia had any people who trapped into this snare, especially the student because they are always want to know and try. In BBM application include the photo from the user. So, they have a free to upload their photo. With that many user who cheated with the picture that there in BBM. If the student or the user take a wrong way, they will trapped into free sex.

            BBM also has negative influences for student. For the first, BBM can forget of the time. It’s mean that user of BBM will often forget the time. Like, forget to eat, t learn, to do assignment. Because had busy with their Smartphone. So, they can’ regardless from their Smartphone with always use BBM with their friends or their special someone. So that any time that not appears. The second, BBM can cause too difficult to concentrate.  The student who use BBM, certainly difficult to concentration in the class when study. Because of, the students had addiction with application of BBM and always think their BBM. BBM able to make student do two things at the same time (multitasking) and disposed make someone difficulty to pervade the information that cause their focus easily changing from one thing to other thing. Like, Dr. David W Goodman, director of psychological disorders center said that, “as multitasker, their brain fulfilled many information, the cause they are not selective again to sort the important information quickly. The third, BBM also can spend much money. The name is social media, where the smartphone need vouchers to buy quota so that can use the application of BBM. Mostly often use BBM application, so we spent much money. And actually the student are not need use the BBM, Why/ because many features that unsuitable to student.

            Many people use social media like BBM without know the influence and effects of BBM. So that many of them got suffered.  It is not wrong use application of BBM, origin not abuse and know the time, when the time to use BBM and when is it not.

Posted By Rusmatul Wardah 

READING AND IT'S ADVANTAGES

  
Reading is a good habit. A good habit is not only refresh our mind but also give us an advantage for our health and our brain. Beside that, reading make people have a lot of knowledge and information. At least, there are four benefit for reading are: 

First, reading coached brain. One of  profit by reading is for coached brain and mind. Reading can make brain always operate it function perfectly. When we read, our brain claimed for thinking. So it will make us more and more clever. 

Second, reading can help out stress. Stress is one factor that can make a lot of dangerous disease. The beauty of written language have an ability for set a mind at rest and help out stress. Especially reading fiction book before sleep. 

Third, reading prevent risk Alzheimer; one of malignancy  that attack brain. Because reading really upgrade setting brain strength. Reading also enamoring and stimulate brain consecutively. 

Fourth, reading increase our concentration. People that like reading will have brain concentration and more focus. With this focus the reader will have full attention in this life. And it also evolving objective skill when make a decision. 

Reading is not only refresh our mind but also give us an advantage for our health and our brain. Filling up unoccupied time with reading is good solution. Then, don’t filling up time just for watching television and play game but please also vacate the time for reading, because reading is useful for brain and health. 

Posted by Shofia Asri

BEAUTIFUL TWILIGHT

That afternoon was Thursday. That was fasting day! My close friend and I went to Kamal for searching food and drink that allocated for broke fast. Yeah most of all my boarding friends fasted. Before hunted food, we drop in market to buy some accessories. After that, we searched fruit-soup seller. 

In a little while when our motorcycle sped, Putri; name of my friend saw a warung* that sold fruit-soup. It seen from banner that impressed in front of warung. We not stopped directly. Putri said there is a warung that sold fruit-soup better tasty than this place, to be exact near harbor. I agree with her suggestion because I want to see a harbor that often told by my friends, and I haven't seen before.

 

A few minutes later stand-out beautiful sea that cooled my eyes. I also heard nice pounding of surf. That is the first time I went to that harbor. When I saw atmosphere around harbor, my eyes so amazement. Also when I saw bright-blue-sea, and beautiful sunset over the west. I enjoyed it. Then I came to realize, that our destination is searching for fruit-soup. And Putri told me, warung that usually sold her proud of fruit-soup was closed. Slowly, we left that beautiful front sea. I bid good bye to sunset on the westernmost.

Finally, we sold fruit-soup in warung that we found before. According to Puteri the taste of this soup pale beside fruit-soup over harbor. Never mind, this soup very well then. After paid the cost we rode back on motorcycle. Before it, I’m like got a gift. There are two rainbows decked out the sky. It was surprise for me. I also gave Puteri information about that. She followed me saw over the sky. And she gave me a sweet smile. What a beautiful rainbows!

After we bought all our requirements we went back to boarding. I felt my brain refresh, and my mind full of positivity. Although that was in just a little time, I like my vacation that twilight. That was a lucky day for me, because not every day I can go to harbor and see the rainbow. Especially, I saw double rainbows. That really beautiful twilight for me!

*Miss Iin said that warung in English is unchanged.

Really told by:

Yasmin, 16 December 2012

Shofia Asri

TV FOR CHILDREN

          Television is the electronic media that full of information and entertainment. Most of people in this world have television in their house. The price of television is reach out. Therefor, most of people have it. People can get many information and entertainment of watching television. But, besides the advantages of watching television, also there are disadvantages of watching television especially for children like forget the time and influence bad programs of television.

          First, most of people waste their time for watching television very much. So that, they have no time for anything else. They forget their exercise in their life like taking pray, studying, eating, and so on. Especially for children, they should study for their future. But in many cases, children much waste their time for watching television. Television has become a friend for children, but the friend that can make their mind forget the time. It is very harmful. The parent should make a schedule of watching television and studying. It is effective for preparing the children's future, so that the children can know the time for watching television and the time for studying.

          The last, there are many programs in television. Most of people like watching kind of programs in television like sport, news, movie, music programs, and infotainment. Not only the adult or parent like watching those programs, but also the children. It is terrible. It can be dangerous for developing of their brain and mind. They can imitate the bad attitude and conversations from television. Here, the control of parent is very needed. The parent should keep and control their children if they start to turn on television. The parent should choose the best programs for their children adjust with the age of the children.

           In conclusion, television can be dangerous in other side. The children often get the direct effect of television. So, control and pay attention from parent are very important for them. The parent can choose the entertainment programs that suitable of the age from their children. The children and parent can learn and get entertainment or information from watching television without worry about forget the time and bad influence for watching television. The children are the future of new Indonesia later.

Posted by Rini Hardiyantini

SELFIE: SELF-EXPLORATION OR NARCISSISM?

Selfie is a word that is added in Oxford Dictionary on August 2013, and defined as 2013’s Word of The Year in Online Oxford Dictionary. Selfie is photographing yourself or self-potrait, especially using smartphone or webcam, then uploaded to Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Nowdays, selfie-trend become very popular. Why?. Selfie become very popular because with selfie, we can actively adjust the image that our show. Even, selfie is used as medium to show off that we are beautiful, sexy, handsome, attractive, fashionable and so on. Generally, selfi is done by us when we feel glamour and fashionable, or when we want to show what are we doing. Besides that, the purpose of selfie is to attract the people attentions. By they do selfie, upload in the social media, and get the feedback such as “like” or comment. We will feel recognized, get social acceptance and appreciation in the environment. That’s a basic human need. Besides that, the development of advanced technology, almost all of smartphones have camera features, so people can do selfie easily. Selfie have good effects and bad effects for us.

GOOD EFFECT 
Selfie has good effects namely as medium to self-expression and to communicate. Selfie is good to young people, because it can boost them accept and appreciate themself. Besidest that, not only to boost them to show their appearance, but also allows them to show their achievements or related with something that. it will boost other people to do the same. If done right and not over, selfie can be beneficial as a medium of self-exploration because allows us to see picture ourself as others see us. For example, when we do selfie while get achiev or when we are taking school abroad and take pictures selfie, within see our photo, we actually proud and other people will see or know our success, so for other people especially people who know us will be encouraged to get same success or as they wish.

BAD EFFECT 
Often upload selfie-photos, describe increasing narcissisme in society. It also led to the emergence of public perception, that the most important is appearance and physical beauty. People who narcissistic glad to boast about themself and hope others give praise. If selfie is doing with over, selfie has considerable harm potential to our self-esteem. Without realizing it, we will depend on the appreciation of the outside, like by number of “likes” and comments of others. Besides that, the bad effect of selfie is manipulate selfie-photos. Many selfie-photos that were uploaded in social media are photo edits that make people selfie-photos more beautiful or handsome than fact. It cause we don’t appreciate the creation of God.

In conclusion, social media like Facebook and Instagram were created as medium to self-expression and communicate with others. Selfie is not prohibited,  but considering selfie have bad effects, we should use wisely and not over.

Posted by Iswari Puji Lestari