Is social media a distraction? Social media has revolutionize the way we communicate and interact. @@@@ On the one hand, we seem to be more closely connected as we can now keep in touch with our family and friends via a wide range of social networking websites and applications on our mobile phones at anytime and at anywhere. Moreover, we can also meet up with people from every conner of the world, which is impossible without social media. The world has become smaller as if everthing is at our finger tips and everyone is just on the other side of our computer and mobile phone screens. On the other hand, however, we have less connection with each other because of social media. There are fewer and fewer face-to-face communications because we talk to each other on chatting websites and applications. It has become a norm today that everyone is looking down at their devices while walking on the streets. Some people have lots of friends that they have never met online whereas in real life they do not even know their neighbours. So I would say social media has become a distraction for our lives up to a point. Most of us spend far more time and energy on social media websites and applications than we should. People check their devices constantly and that has become a habbit which is difficult to get rid of. If we could use thoes excess time we spend on our computers and mobile phones to do something more meaningful, our lives would be more wonderful and we would be happier.