By:
A’yuni Sabila Khusna

“Social media is not a media. The key is to
listen, engage, and build relationships.”– David Alston. Currently, social media
has become the primary need of society, especially teenagers who are familiar
with current technological advances so, every people all around the world they
use social media for their activities. However, Social
media is the perfect way for teenagers to socialize with all people around the
world.

When teenagers using social media they can add their relation with
all people around the world. Social media can connect people easily although
the distance is far away so, teenagers can socialize with foreigners easily
when they use social media, besides that, the features from social media such
as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram make it easy for us to socialize
with many people around the world. Teenagers can get many friends without
meeting first because, teenagers can socialize with all person around the world
only by adding them to their friends and continue to chat each other, and
furthermore, they can make lots of friends when their friends recommend each
other to follow their friends because there is something special from their
friends. Therefore, social media is a media for teenagers to add their relation
with people easily.

Teenagers
can exchange their experience when they use social media. They can share their
experience only by posting photo or video on social media for example, in
Tiktok there were many user of Tiktok which shared their experience when they
did their thesis assignment, or went vacation in tourist attraction and also, on
Jerome Polin’s YouTube account he shared some videos how the way to survive
when we took study in Japan. Moreover, they can give each other the latest news
through social media for example, in twitter we can make a twit about Nadiem
Makarim’s decision regarding the learning system in the next year and also between
teenagers can share pamphlets about learning courses, national webinars, and
information about SBMPTN on their WhatsApp or Instagram story. Then, by social
media teenagers get more information from their friends in term of experience
and news.

Teenagers
can make their friend on social media as a study partner. Teenagers can ask to
their friends on social media about their lessons for example, teenagers can
ask to their friends on social media when they find some difficulties in their
lessons, in addition they can make a group discussion about lesson in their
social media account such as whatsapp and instagram. Teenagers also can add
their knowledge from their friends on social media because, when teenagers
socialize with foreigners on their social media, it can increase their language
in English or in Arabic to communicate with them. So that, teenagers can have
their study partner and more knowledge form their friends in social media.

            In
brief, social media is the best way for teenagers to socialize. When teenagers
using social media teenagers can add their relation with all people around the
world easily so, by having many friends on social media, between teenagers can
share their experiences and also, teenagers can get more knowledge from their
friends on social media. As a result, we hope that social media will always
give some benefits and positive impact for all teenagers, human beings and
always be a media to connect everyone in the world.